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Complicated Women( 2003)

TV-MADocumentaryTV Movie
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Before Hollywood had boundaries, they weren't afraid to push the limits.

Overview

Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered film content. No longer portrayed as virgins or vamps, the liberated female of the pre-code films had dimensions. Good girls had lovers and babies and held down jobs, while the bad girls were cast in a sympathetic light. And they did it all without apology.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Jane Fonda

      Self - Narrator (voice)

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      Frances Dee

      Self - Interviewee

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      Karen Morley

      Self - Interviewee

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      Kitty Carlisle

      Self - Interviewee

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      Mae Madison

      Self - Interviewee

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      Mark Vieira

      Self - Interviewee

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      Mick LaSalle

      Self - Interviewee

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      Molly Haskell

      Self - Interviewee

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      Barbara Stanwyck

      Self (archive footage)

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      Bette Davis

      Self (archive footage)

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      C. Aubrey Smith

      Self (archive footage)

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      Chester Morris

      Self (archive footage)

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      Clark Gable

      Self (archive footage)

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      Claudette Colbert

      Self (archive footage)

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      Dolores del Río

      Self (archive footage)

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      Fred Astaire

      Self (archive footage)

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      Fredric March

      Self (archive footage)

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      Gene Raymond

      Self (archive footage)

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      Ginger Rogers

      Self (archive footage)

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      Greta Garbo

      Self (archive footage)

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      Helen Twelvetrees

      Self (archive footage)

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      Irving Thalberg

      Self (archive footage)

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      James Cagney

      Self (archive footage)

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      Jean Harlow

      Self (archive footage)

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      Joan Blondell

      Self (archive footage)

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      Joan Crawford

      Self (archive footage)

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      John Gilbert

      Self (archive footage)

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      Johnny Weissmüller

      Self (archive footage)

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      Katharine Hepburn

      Self (archive footage)

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      Kay Francis

      Self (archive footage)

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      Leslie Howard

      Self (archive footage)

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      Lewis Stone

      Self (archive footage)

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      Loretta Young

      Self (archive footage)

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      Norma Shearer

      Self (archive footage)

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      Mae West

      Self (archive footage)

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      Marlene Dietrich

      Self (archive footage)

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      Maureen O'Sullivan

      Self (archive footage)

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      Miriam Hopkins

      Self (archive footage)

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      Myrna Loy

      Self (archive footage)

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      Ricardo Cortez

      Self (archive footage)

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      Robert Montgomery

      Self (archive footage)

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      Ruth Chatterton

      Self (archive footage)

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      Tallulah Bankhead

      Self (archive footage)

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      William H. Hays

      Self (archive footage)

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      Gilbert Roland

      Self (archive footage)

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      Lee Phelps

      Self (archive footage)

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      Nat Pendleton

      Self (archive footage)

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      Warner Oland

      Self (archive footage)

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      Maurice Murphy

      Self (archive footage)

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      Herbert Marshall

      Self (archive footage)

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      George F. Marion

      Self (archive footage)

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      Aline MacMahon

      Self (archive footage)

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      Dorothy Mackaill

      Self (archive footage)

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      Paul Lukas

      Self (archive footage)

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      Jack La Rue

      Self (archive footage)

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      Allen Jenkins

      Self (archive footage)

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      Olin Howland

      Self (archive footage)

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      Jean Hersholt

      Self (archive footage)

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      Ann Harding

      Self (archive footage)

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      Cary Grant

      Self (archive footage)

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      William Gargan

      Self (archive footage)

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      Douglass Dumbrille

      Self (archive footage)

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      Cecil Cunningham

      Self (archive footage)

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      Gary Cooper

      Self (archive footage)

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      Maurice Chevalier

      Self (archive footage)

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      Virginia Bruce

      Self (archive footage)

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      Charles Bickford

      Self (archive footage)

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      Robert Barrat

      Self (archive footage)

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      John Barrymore

      Self (archive footage)

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      Lionel Barrymore

      Self (archive footage)

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      Wallace Beery

      Self (archive footage)

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

    -

    Revenue

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    Keywords

    • movie business
    • hollywood
    • pre-code