Complicated Women (2003)

Complicated Women

2003

Documentary TV Movie

Synopsis

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.

Credits

Director

Hugh Munro Neely

Cast

Barbara Stanwyck as Self (archive footage)

Bette Davis as Self (archive footage)

Frances Dee as Self - Interviewee

Jane Fonda as Self - Narrator (voice)

Karen Morley as Self - Interviewee

Kitty Carlisle as Self - Interviewee

Mae Madison as Self - Interviewee

Mark Vieira as Self - Interviewee