Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Genre:
Documentary
Countries:
United States
Release Date: May 23, 2007
Year: 2007
Runtime:70 min
IMDb Rating:
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.
Mary Pickford, Bebe Daniels, Mabel Normand, Owen Moore, Charlie Chaplin, Roscoe Arbuckle, Bette Davis, Myrna Loy, John Gilbert, Joan Crawford, Cary Grant, 46 more, Barbara Stanwyck, Sessue Hayakawa, Gloria Swanson, Douglas Fairbanks, Diane Lane, Marlene Dietrich, Jean Harlow, Pola Negri, Clara Bow, Colleen Moore, Greta Garbo, Mary Miles Minter, Edna Pur
