Complicated Women

Reviews

Overview

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.

Cast

Jane Fonda

Self - Narrator (voice)

Frances Dee

Self - Interviewee

Karen Morley

Self - Interviewee

Kitty Carlisle

Self - Interviewee

Mae Madison

Self - Interviewee

M

Mark Vieira

Other films by Hugh Munro Neely

The Woman with the Hungry Eyes

2006

Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies

2001

Mary Pickford: A Life on Film

2000

Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl

1999