Complicated Women

May. 06,2003 PG

Rating：

7.6

Genre：

Documentary TV Movie

Keywords：

Pre-code Film Making Hollywood

Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Jane Fonda as Self - Narrator (voice)

Frances Dee as Self - Interviewee

Karen Morley as Self - Interviewee

Kitty Carlisle as Self - Interviewee

Mae Madison as Self - Interviewee

Molly Haskell as Self - Interviewee

Barbara Stanwyck as Self (archive footage)

Bette Davis as Self (archive footage)

C. Aubrey Smith as Self (archive footage)

Chester Morris as Self (archive footage)

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