Complicated Women

TV Movie
2003
55m

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Jean Harlow and Norma Shearer in Complicated Women (2003)

A look at actresses who starred in films with thought-provoking subjects made between 1929-1934 - before the Hollywood Production Code was enforced.A look at actresses who starred in films with thought-provoking subjects made between 1929-1934 - before the Hollywood Production Code was enforced.A look at actresses who starred in films with thought-provoking subjects made between 1929-1934 - before the Hollywood Production Code was enforced.

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Jane Fonda

Self - Narrator
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Frances Dee

Self

Kitty Carlisle

Self - Interviewee
(as Kitty Carlisle Hart)

Molly Haskell

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Mick LaSalle

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Mae Madison

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Karen Morley

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Mark Vieira

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Fred Astaire

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(archive footage)

Robert Barrat

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(archive footage)

John Barrymore

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(archive footage)

Lionel Barrymore

Self
(archive footage)

Wallace Beery

Self
(archive footage)

Charles Bickford

Self
(archive footage)

Virginia Bruce

Self
(archive footage)

Maurice Chevalier

Self
(archive footage)

Gary Cooper

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(archive footage)

Cecil Cunningham

Self
(archive footage)

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- Hugh Munro Neely
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Connections
Features Flesh and the Devil (1926)

Soundtracks
Jazz Up Your Lingerie
Written by Oscar Straus and Clifford Grey
Used by permission of Famous Music

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8/10

The more things change...

This is an excellent look at women in the pre-Code films. Narrated by Jane Fonda, it is extremely thought-provoking in this age of wardrobe malfunctions, hue and cry over a sexy Paris Hilton commercial, and Nicole Sheridan dropping a towel during an ad on Super Bowl Sunday.

I found this documentary comforting in a way - 70+ years later, we're still going through all the same stuff we did back then. The way things are going, we'll be back in 1933 before you know it.

Fonda narrates with a lot of expression as she takes the viewer through pre-code movies showing prostitutes, women sleeping their way to the top, menage at trois, bisexuality, abortion, and unfaithful wives. If you're not familiar with movies done before Breen and Hays, this will be a revelation.