Complicated Women

Complicated Women (2003)

Before Hollywood had boundaries, they weren't afraid to push the limits.

  • Genre: Documentary, TV Movie
  • Release Date: 2003-05-06
  • User Rating: 6.7/10 from 11 ratings
  • Runtime: 0h 56min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Timeline Films
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: Hugh Munro Neely
star 6.7/10
From 11 Ratings

Summary

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.

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  • 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
  • Mark Vieira

    as Self - Interviewee
  • Mick LaSalle

    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)
  • Clark Gable

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Claudette Colbert

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Dolores del Río

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Fred Astaire

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Fredric March

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Gene Raymond

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Ginger Rogers

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Greta Garbo

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Helen Twelvetrees

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Irving Thalberg

    as Self (archive footage)
  • James Cagney

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Jean Harlow

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Joan Blondell

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Joan Crawford

    as Self (archive footage)
  • John Gilbert

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Johnny Weissmüller

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Katharine Hepburn

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Kay Francis

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Leslie Howard

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Lewis Stone

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Loretta Young

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Norma Shearer

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Mae West

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Marlene Dietrich

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Maureen O'Sullivan

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Miriam Hopkins

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Myrna Loy

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Ricardo Cortez

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Robert Montgomery

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Ruth Chatterton

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Tallulah Bankhead

    as Self (archive footage)
  • William H. Hays

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Gilbert Roland

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Lee Phelps

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Nat Pendleton

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Warner Oland

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Maurice Murphy

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Herbert Marshall

    as Self (archive footage)
  • George F. Marion

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Aline MacMahon

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Dorothy Mackaill

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Paul Lukas

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Jack La Rue

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Allen Jenkins

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Olin Howland

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Jean Hersholt

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Ann Harding

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Cary Grant

    as Self (archive footage)
  • William Gargan

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Douglass Dumbrille

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Cecil Cunningham

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Gary Cooper

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Maurice Chevalier

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Virginia Bruce

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Charles Bickford

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Robert Barrat

    as Self (archive footage)
  • John Barrymore

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Lionel Barrymore

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Wallace Beery

    as Self (archive footage)
Directing Hugh Munro Neely Director
Writing Hugh Munro Neely Writer
Writing Andie Hicks Writer
Production Keith Lawrence Producer
Editing Hugh Munro Neely Editor
Production Hugh Munro Neely Producer
Editing Andie Hicks Editor
Sound Nigel Holton Original Music Composer
Production John J. Flynn Producer
Camera Harry Dawson Director of Photography
Writing Mick LaSalle Book
Production Elaina Archer Co-Producer

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