Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Release: 2007-05-23
·Runtime: 70m
·★ 4.3
Documentary
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.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
A&F Productions
Playboy Enterprises
Cast
Barbara Stanwyck
as Self (archive footage)
Cecil B. DeMille
as Self (archive footage)
Marlene Dietrich
as Self (archive footage)
Cary Grant
as Self (archive footage)
D.W. Griffith
as Self (archive footage)
Sessue Hayakawa
as Self (archive footage)
Jeanine Basinger
as Self
Bebe Daniels
as Self (archive footage)
Douglas Fairbanks
as Self (archive footage)
Woodrow Wilson
as Self (archive footage)
Marc Wanamaker
as Self
William H. Hays
as Self (archive footage)
Theodore Roosevelt
as Self (archive footage)
Mary Pickford
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
Budd Schulberg
as Self
Joan Crawford
as Self (archive footage)
Mabel Normand
as Self (archive footage)
Gloria Swanson
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
Clara Bow
as Self (archive footage)
Mae West
as Self (archive footage)
Diane Lane
as Narrator (voice)
Charlie Chaplin
as Self (archive footage)
Fannie Ward
as Self (archive footage)
Leatrice Joy Gilbert
as Self
William Wellman Jr.
as Self
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
as Self (archive footage)
John Gilbert
as Self (archive footage)
Maria Riva
as Self
Mark Viera
as Self
Jean Harlow
as Self (archive footage)
Leslie Howard
as Self (archive footage)
Colleen Moore
as Self (archive footage)
Virginia Rappe
as Self (archive footage)
Greta Garbo
as Self (archive footage)
Louise Brooks
as Self (archive footage)
Bette Davis
as Self (archive footage)
Ann Harding
as Self (archive footage)
Owen Moore
as Self (archive footage)
Edna Purviance
as Self (archive footage)
A.C. Lyles
as Self
Texas Guinan
as Self (archive footage)
Michael Westmore
as Self
Holly Madison
as Model: Special Shoot
Theda Bara
as Self (archive footage)
Myrna Loy
as Self (archive footage)
Mary Miles Minter
as Self (archive footage)
Pola Negri
as Self (archive footage)
