Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood

Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood

6.4

English/67 min./2008

Genres

Documentary History

Synopsis

A look at the forces that shaped Pre-Code Hollywood and brought about the strict enforcement of the Hays Code in 1934.

Cast

Valerie Spencer

John Landis

Rudy Behlmer

Jerry Beck

Camille Paglia

Hugh Hefner

Jack Valenti

Molly Haskell

Leonard Maltin

Tony Maietta

Joan Crawford

Ann Dvorak

Clark Gable

Greta Garbo

Jean Harlow

Miriam Hopkins

Norma Shearer

Barbara Stanwyck

Mae West

Warren William

William H. Hays

Walter Huston

Wallace Ford

Paul Muni

Joseph I. Breen

Joel McCrea

Constance Bennett

Myrna Loy

Loretta Young

Ruth Chatterton

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