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1957
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Jul 14, 2022 · Joan Blondell in Blonde Crazy. Photograph: Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy. Movies. This article is more than 1 year old. ‘Two out of five stories should be hot’: why pre-code cinema was a...
- Pamela Hutchinson
Pre-Code sex films. This 1932 promotional photo of Joan Blondell was later banned under the then unenforceable Motion Picture Production Code. Pre-Code sex films refers to movies made in the Pre-Code Hollywood era, roughly encompassed between either the introduction of sound in the late 1920s [1] or February 1930 (with the publication of the ...
Jun 10, 2023 · Rose Joan Blondell joined the glamorous Blondell family on a hot summer day in 1906. Since the family were busy vaudevillians, they were always on tour. Born in New York, Little Blondel had no choice but to be carried around from one show to the other—reportedly, her cradle was a property trunk. She was meant to be a “showbiz” baby. Getty ...
- Night Nurse (1931) Night Nurse, featuring pre-Code queen Barbara Stanwyck alongside Joan Blondell, is one of my favorite movies full-stop, a brazen blend of silliness and seriousness that offers up a variety of excuses to get its leads to undress (down to their underwear, anyway), and then ups the drama with a story about the two young nurses battling wealthy trust fund heirs (sometimes physically) to save a kid in danger.
- The Public Enemy (1931) Pull up any list of great American gangster movies, and it will be overwhelmingly either pre-Code or post-Code... movies in between were subject to strict rules about punishment, but almost more general strictures about crime being portrayed in anything resembling a positive light.
- Safe in Hell (1931) A New Orleans sex worker, Gilda, is accused of murdering the guy who forced her into the business to begin with, and shuffled off to a small island with no other women (well, white women, anyway, making her a prized commodity among the island’s population of male criminals) and no extradition treaty.
- Frankenstein (1931) The Hays Code forbade negative depictions of religion, which is why Frankenstein needed to be edited for rereleases in the years after its blockbuster 1931 opening.
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JOAN BLONDELL (1932) Pre-Code portrait. [Hollywood]: Warner Brothers, [1932]. Vintage original 10 x 8″ (25 x 20 cm.) black-and-white print still photo, a couple of small chips in right blank margin, near fine. An unusually sexy (and very pre-Code) image of Joan Blondell in Lawyer Man.
