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GOD’S GIFT TO WOMEN (1931) from Warner Archive: One Kiss and You Die!
The year is 1931. Three undressed women catfight over the lover they share – wrestling in his bed, tearing at each other’s skimpy negligees. One of them is Louise Brooks, pansexual star of some of the sultriest silent films ever … Continue reading →
Posted in Classic Film, Warner Archive Collection, Pre-Code Film
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Tagged "Raymond Griffith", Warner Archive Collection, Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Blondell, Pre-Code Film, The Code, Warner Bros, Safe in Hell, Motion Picture Production Code, Laura La Plante, GOD'S GIFT TO WOMEN, Louise Brooks, Yola d’Avril, Hays Code, 1931, Frank Fay, A STAR IS BORN, Norman Maine, Sisters G, Karla Gutchrlein, Eleanor Gutchrlein, Charles Winniger, Billy House, Margaret Livingston, Arthur Edmund Carewe, PANDORA’S BOX, DIARY OF A LOST GIRL, G.W. Pabst, Michael Curtiz, The Devil Was Sick, Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, Joseph Jackson
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She Works Hard For the Money: The Columbia Pictures Pre-Code Collection on DVD from TCM
Sex sells, the old saying goes. It also employs, or at least it did in movies made before enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code began in 1934. In the The Columbia Pictures Pre-Code Collection, a five-film DVD set from … Continue reading →
Posted in Classic Film, TCM, Pre-Code Film
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Tagged ARIZONA, Barbara Stanwyck, Carole Lombard, Columbia Pictures, Columbia Pictures Pre-Code Collection, Forbidden Hollywood, Great Depresson, Hays Office, Jean Harlow, Jo Swerling, John Wayne, Joseph Breen, Laura La Plante, Lionel Barrymore, Mae Clarke, Marie Prevost, Mayo Methot, Motion Picture Production Code, Pat O’Brien, Pre-Code Film, Regis Toomey, Robert Riskin, SHOPWORN, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, TEN CENTS A DANCE, THREE WISE GIRLS, VIRTUE, Will Hays
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