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Complicated Women

67 %|May 6, 2003|Documentary, TV Movie

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.

Featured Crew

Hugh Munro Neely
Director
Hugh Munro Neely
Writer
Andie Hicks
Writer
Keith Lawrence
Producer
Hugh Munro Neely
Editor
Hugh Munro Neely
Producer
Andie Hicks
Editor
Nigel Holton
Original Music Composer

Cast

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Jane Fonda
Self - Narrator (voice)
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Frances Dee
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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
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Chester Morris
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Clark Gable
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Claudette Colbert
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Dolores del Río
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Fred Astaire
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Fredric March
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Gene Raymond
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Ginger Rogers
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Greta Garbo
Self (archive footage)
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Helen Twelvetrees
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Irving Thalberg
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James Cagney
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Jean Harlow
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Joan Blondell
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Joan Crawford
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John Gilbert
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Johnny Weissmüller
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Katharine Hepburn
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Kay Francis
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Leslie Howard
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Lewis Stone
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Loretta Young
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Norma Shearer
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Mae West
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Marlene Dietrich
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Maureen O'Sullivan
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Miriam Hopkins
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Myrna Loy
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Ricardo Cortez
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Robert Montgomery
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Ruth Chatterton
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Tallulah Bankhead
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William H. Hays
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Gilbert Roland
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Lee Phelps
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Nat Pendleton
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Warner Oland
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Maurice Murphy
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Herbert Marshall
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George F. Marion
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Aline MacMahon
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Dorothy Mackaill
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Paul Lukas
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Jack La Rue
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Allen Jenkins
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Olin Howland
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Jean Hersholt
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Ann Harding
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Cary Grant
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William Gargan
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Douglass Dumbrille
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Cecil Cunningham
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Gary Cooper
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Maurice Chevalier
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Virginia Bruce
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Charles Bickford
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Robert Barrat
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John Barrymore
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Lionel Barrymore
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Wallace Beery
Self (archive footage)