Pre-code Hollywood collection
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Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (466 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (19 pages ; 18 cm)
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DVD Series
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DVD
Language
English
UPC
DLW86973
Notes
General Note
Includes booklet: Code to govern the making of talking, synchronized and silent motion pictures and the reason supporting it / formulated by Association of Motion Picture Producers, Inc. and Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc., June 13, 1934
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Title from container
Participants/Performers
The Cheat: Tallulah Bankhead, Irving Pichel
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Merrily we go to Hell: Frederic March, Sylvia Sidney
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Hot Saturday: Nancy Carroll, Randolph Scott, Cary Grant
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Torch singer: Claudette Colbert, Ricardo Cortez, David Manners, Lyda Roberti, Baby Le Roy
Participants/Performers
Murder at the Vanities: Carl Brisson, Victor McLaglen, Jack Oakie, Kitty Carlisle, Dorothy Stickney, Gertrude Michael. With the musical talents of Kitty Carlisle and Duke Ellington
Participants/Performers
Search for beauty: Larry 'Buster' Crabbe, Ida Lupino, Robert Armstrong, James Gleason, Roscoe Karns, Toby Wing, Gertrude Michael, Bradley Page
Description
Six films made before the Production Code. In 1934, Hollywood was turned upside down by the enforcement of a strict "Production Code" that would change the way movies were made for the next 34 years. But during the "pre-Code" period (1929-1934), censorship barely existed and filmmakers had free rein to make the movies they wanted and the public demanded. No subject was taboo including adultery, murder or sex
Description
The cheat: Tallulah Bankhead plays a spoiled socialite who borrows money from an exotic art collector to replace what she has stolen from a charity. The collateral for the loan and the penalty for default may shock even modern audiences. The cheat violated the Production Code's strictures against miscegenation, sadism, white slavery and rape
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Merrily we go to hell: A cautionary tale of a marriage wrecked by the drinking of a young husband. Has numerous scenes of drunken parties which were prohibited by the Code, as well as clinging gowns and art deco settings
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Hot Saturday: A small-town girl spends the night with a family friend in defiance of her mother, who has accused her of sleeping with the town playboy. The Code forbade seduction scenes and disapproved of the scenes in which a group of young people drive to the playboy's lakeside lodge for a drinking party that leads to worse
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Torch singer: Claudette Colbert plays a sexy radio chanteuse who passes her time with an entourage of drunken debauched friends while raising her child born out of wedlock. The Code prohibited stories of illicit love and drunkenness
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Murder at the Vanities: This film is an elaborate showcase for the female form. It violated almost every section of the Code
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Search for beauty: Con artists dupe Olympic athletes into endorsing a skin magazine. The movie was heavily censored
Target Audience
Not rated
Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Bankhead, T., Pichel, I., March, F., Sidney, S., Grant, C., Scott, R., Carroll, N., Colbert, C., Cortez, R., Manners, D., Roberti, L., Baby Le Roy., Brisson, C., McLaglen, V., Oakie, J., Carlisle, K., Ellington, D., Stickney, D. 1., Michael, G., Crabbe, B., Lupino, I., Armstrong, R., Gleason, J., Karns, R., Wing, T., Page, B., Abbott, G., Arzner, D., Seiter, W. A., Hall, A., Somnes, G., Leisen, M., & Kenton, E. C. (2009). Pre-code Hollywood collection . Universal Studios Home Entertainment.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Tallulah Bankhead et al.. 2009. Pre-code Hollywood Collection. Universal Studios Home Entertainment.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Tallulah Bankhead et al.. Pre-code Hollywood Collection Universal Studios Home Entertainment, 2009.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Bankhead, Tallulah, et al. Pre-code Hollywood Collection Universal Studios Home Entertainment, 2009.
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