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