Complicated Women Before Hollywood had boundaries, they weren't afraid to push the limits. Release date: 2003-05-06 Genres: Documentary, TV Movie Actors: Paul Lukas, Charles Bickford, Johnny Weissmüller, Kay Francis, Marlene Dietrich, Wallace Beery, Ruth Chatterton, William Gargan, Mae West, Cary Grant, Olin Howland, Loretta Young, Leslie Howard, Jack La Rue, Cecil Cunningham, Robert Barrat, Maureen O'Sullivan, Karen Morley, Chester Morris, Jane Fonda, Fredric March, Maurice Murphy, Tallulah Bankhead, Joan Blondell, George F. Marion, Warner Oland, Gary Cooper, Ricardo Cortez, John Gilbert, Robert Montgomery, Nat Pendleton, Herbert Marshall, Clark Gable, Kitty Carlisle, John Barrymore, Katharine Hepburn, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy, Helen Twelvetrees, Norma Shearer, Gilbert Roland, Ann Harding, Bette Davis, Lewis Stone, William H. Hays, Ginger Rogers, Virginia Bruce, Mae Madison, Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, Jean Hersholt, Allen Jenkins, Barbara Stanwyck, Lionel Barrymore, Gene Raymond, Greta Garbo, James Cagney, Douglass Dumbrille, Joan Crawford, Fred Astaire, Miriam Hopkins, Dolores del Río, Molly Haskell, Mick LaSalle, Lee Phelps, Frances Dee, Dorothy Mackaill, C. Aubrey Smith, Aline MacMahon, Mark Vieira Production: Irving Thalberg Runtime: 56 min. 56 min. Score: 6.7/10 Votes: 11 Countries: United States of America Companies: Timeline Films 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.
