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Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

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Archival interviews with Hollywood icons like Gloria Swanson illustrate the evolution of onscreen sexuality and the scandals that led to the establishment of the Production Code.

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Audience Member A simple but lacking of style documentary of basically the early exploits of sexuality on screen. It's amazing what they got way with at the time & how they got around censorship so cleverly & deceptively. Focuses mainly on the 1920's & 30's mainly but is a great research tool to how it was. Much scandal & naughty behavior was often included in film & all was ok if there was a moral ending. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member good doc gr8 pre-code clips from some of my faves Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Just a clip show but what great clips from pre-code Hollywood. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Archival interviews with Hollywood icons like Gloria Swanson illustrate the evolution of onscreen sexuality and the scandals that led to the establishment of the Production Code.
Director
Elaine Archer
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 8m