The most exciting time in Hollywood was arguably the ephemeral period before the stingy rules implemented by the industry. Before the adoption of the Hays Code, the guideline that major studios ...
"That was the film that brought Mae West to the movies in a big way," said William Patrick Day, a professor of cinema studies and English at Oberlin College. "She had been a vaudeville and Broadway ...
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A scene from “Three on A Match,” the first film, showing as part of the Lincoln Theater’s Classic Film Club. Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. The movies are full of sex, violence, nudity, bad people ...
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Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival: Movies through April 28. Tickets $14. Check website for schedule and venues. 213-680-4462. festival.vconline.org American Cinematheque at the Aero: Actor ...
“Forbidden Hollywood,” Warner Archive’s made-to-order DVD series featuring Pre-Code films, sounds like good, clean – well, dirty – fun. Pre-Code films, made from the late ’20s until 1934, when the ...
In one astonishing 12-month period, 1932 to 1933, American filmmaker William Wellman directed 13 movies, 6 of which are included in this, the third volume in Turner Classic Movies’ “Forbidden ...