Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
(2007)
Documentary
70min
49%
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 ...
Diane Lane
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Chris Basinger
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Jeanine Basinger
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Diane Lane
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Chris Basinger
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Jeanine Basinger
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Cari Beauchamp
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Leatrice Joy Gilbert
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A.C. Lyles
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Bob Mitchell
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Barry Paris
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Maria Riva
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Michael Schlesinger
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Budd Schulberg
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Kevin Thomas
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Mark Viera
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Marc Wanamaker
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William Wellman Jr.
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Michael Westmore
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Holly Madison
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Betsy Moore
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Paul Tucci
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Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
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Theda Bara
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Clara Bow
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Louise Brooks
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Charlie Chaplin
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Joan Crawford
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Bebe Daniels
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Bette Davis
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Cecil B. DeMille
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Marlene Dietrich
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Douglas Fairbanks
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Greta Garbo
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John Gilbert
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Cary Grant
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D.W. Griffith
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Texas Guinan
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Ann Harding
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Jean Harlow
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Sessue Hayakawa
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William H. Hays
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William Randolph Hearst
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Leslie Howard
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Myrna Loy
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Mary Miles Minter
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Colleen Moore
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Owen Moore
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Pola Negri
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Mabel Normand
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Mary Pickford
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Edna Purviance
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Virginia Rappe
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Barbara Stanwyck
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Gloria Swanson
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Rudolph Valentino
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Fannie Ward
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Mae West
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Woodrow Wilson
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