Posted on 09/29/2020 12:30:52 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Before 1934 movie makers could basically put whatever they wanted into a movie.The industry created its own code in 1934 to self-censor against certain things. For example, nudity. They were also not supposed to show a crime or a moral act and then the person getting away with it. Although there’s some haziness to that. The industry did it voluntarily it wasn’t imposed by lawmakers, although there were probably afraid of that happening. In 1969 they ended it and it was anything goes.
Thank you. I had no clue.
Same here! Hubby and I watched a lot of Turner Classic Movies during the height of the China Virus pandemic (March-June). Joan Blondell is always fabulous!
Naughty girl...
I believe this is called the “Hayes Code” but I don’t remember who Hayes was.
Well, he’s probably someone I wouldn’t like.
Hayes was the head of the Motion Picture Association of America.
Imagine if he saw what kind of crap is on tv today.
Pre-Code is basically shorthand for sexy movies from the early 1930s. Lots of double-entrendre wisecracks (Blondell telling a woman that she’ll never lack for work as long as there are sidewalks) and lots of women getting dressed and undressed (Night Nurse probably holds the record here). The greatest pre-code movie is probably Baby Face with Barbara Stanwyck (and John Wayne in a tiny role).
FTA: don’t let those bulbs stick out!”
Jennifer Aniston lets it all stick out....
There’s a William Powell movie, Jewel Robbery, with Kay Francis.
Powell robs a jewelry store at closing, and while his gang is cleaning the place out, he gives the customers and store people MJ cigarettes to smoke, impairing their ability to remember clearly what exactly happened and what the crooks looked like.
Sister Gloria played Grace Foster on an I Love Lucy episode.
Pre-code Hollywood was before the Hayes office came into being and there could be no more near nude scenes, graphic violence, etc.
Nice gams. What a dish!( A little ‘30’s lingo there.)
Self-ping for later
I was an eleven year old kid when Here Come the Brides came on TV. Loved Joan Blondell back then!
bkmrk
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