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Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007)

ALL 05/23/2007 (en) Documentary 70 Min
  • Release
    05/23/2007
  • Production
    A&F Productions, Playboy Enterprises
  • Rotten tomato
    49%
  • Original title
    Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was, well, nothing. This eye-opening documentary examines the rampant sexuality of early Hollywood through movie clips and reminiscences by stars of the era. Gloria Swanson, Mary Pickford, Marlene Dietrich and others relate tales of the artistic freedom that led to the draconian Production Code, which governed content from 1934 to 1968. Diane Lane narrates.

  1. Elaina Archer

    Director

  2. Story



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  1. Diane Lane

    Narrator (voice)

  2. Chris Basinger

    Self

  3. Jeanine Basinger

    Self

  4. Cari Beauchamp

    Self

  5. Leatrice Joy Gilbert

    Self

  6. A.C. Lyles

    Self

  7. Bob Mitchell

    Self

  8. Barry Paris

    Self

  9. Maria Riva

    Self

  10. Michael Schlesinger

    Self

  11. Budd Schulberg

    Self

  12. Kevin Thomas

    Self

  13. Mark Viera

    Self

  14. Marc Wanamaker

    Self

  15. William Wellman Jr.

    Self

  16. Michael Westmore

    Self

  17. Holly Madison

    Model: Special Shoot

  18. Betsy Moore

    Silent Movie Theatre Actor

  19. Paul Tucci

    Silent Movie Theatre Actor

  20. Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

    Self (archive footage)

  21. Theda Bara

    Self (archive footage)

  22. Clara Bow

    Self (archive footage)

  23. Louise Brooks

    Self (archive footage)

  24. Charlie Chaplin

    Self (archive footage)

  25. Joan Crawford

    Self (archive footage)

  26. Bebe Daniels

    Self (archive footage)

  27. Bette Davis

    Self (archive footage)

  28. Cecil B. DeMille

    Self (archive footage)

  29. Marlene Dietrich

    Self (archive footage)

  30. Douglas Fairbanks

    Self (archive footage)

  31. Greta Garbo

    Self (archive footage)

  32. John Gilbert

    Self (archive footage)

  33. Cary Grant

    Self (archive footage)

  34. D.W. Griffith

    Self (archive footage)

  35. Texas Guinan

    Self (archive footage)

  36. Ann Harding

    Self (archive footage)

  37. Jean Harlow

    Self (archive footage)

  38. Sessue Hayakawa

    Self (archive footage)

  39. William H. Hays

    Self (archive footage)

  40. William Randolph Hearst

    Self (archive footage)

  41. Leslie Howard

    Self (archive footage)

  42. Myrna Loy

    Self (archive footage)

  43. Mary Miles Minter

    Self (archive footage)

  44. Colleen Moore

    Self (archive footage)

  45. Owen Moore

    Self (archive footage)

  46. Pola Negri

    Self (archive footage)

  47. Mabel Normand

    Self (archive footage)

  48. Mary Pickford

    Self (voice) (archive footage)

  49. Edna Purviance

    Self (archive footage)

  50. Virginia Rappe

    Self (archive footage)

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 57 , Crews : 29

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Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007) 70 Min

ALL 05/23/2007 (en)
Documentary
  • Release 05/23/2007
  • Production
    A&F Productions, Playboy Enterprises
  • Original title Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was, well, nothing. This eye-opening documentary examines the rampant sexuality of early Hollywood through movie clips and reminiscences by stars of the era. Gloria Swanson, Mary Pickford, Marlene Dietrich and others relate tales of the artistic freedom that led to the draconian Production Code, which governed content from 1934 to 1968. Diane Lane narrates.

  1. Elaina Archer

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Elaina Archer, Todd Friedrichsen

    Editor

  4. Elaina Archer, Todd Friedrichsen

    Producer



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