Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema [165609]
Released: 2007-05-23
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0
Profit: $0
Runtime: 70 mins
Popularity: 1.2951
Vote Average: 4.9
Vote Count: 4
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.

Cast [57]
Diane Lane
Narrator
Chris Basinger
Self
Jeanine Basinger
Self
Cari Beauchamp
Self
Leatrice Joy Gilbert
Self
A.C. Lyles
Self
Bob Mitchell
Self
Barry Paris
Self
Maria Riva
Self
Michael Schlesinger
Self
Budd Schulberg
Self
Kevin Thomas
Self
Mark Viera
Self
Marc Wanamaker
Self
William Wellman Jr.
Self
Michael Westmore
Self
Holly Madison
Model: Special Shoot
Betsy Moore
Silent Movie Theatre
Paul Tucci
Silent Movie Theatre
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
Self
Theda Bara
Self
Clara Bow
Self
Louise Brooks
Self
Charlie Chaplin
Self
Joan Crawford
Self
Bebe Daniels
Self
Bette Davis
Self
Cecil B. DeMille
Self
Marlene Dietrich
Self
Douglas Fairbanks
Self
Greta Garbo
Self
John Gilbert
Self
Cary Grant
Self
D.W. Griffith
Self
Texas Guinan
Self
Ann Harding
Self
Jean Harlow
Self
Sessue Hayakawa
Self
William H. Hays
Self
William Randolph Hearst
Self
Leslie Howard
Self
Myrna Loy
Self
Mary Miles Minter
Self
Colleen Moore
Self
Owen Moore
Self
Pola Negri
Self
Mabel Normand
Self
Mary Pickford
Self
Edna Purviance
Self
Virginia Rappe
Self
Theodore Roosevelt
Self
Barbara Stanwyck
Self
Gloria Swanson
Self
Rudolph Valentino
Self
Fannie Ward
Self
Mae West
Self
Woodrow Wilson
Self

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