We’re going back to the horniest years in Hollywood history for another scandalous pre-coder; Baby Face, the 1933 movie that was so shocking it solidified cinema’s censorship for the next 30 years.
Watch it for free here.
References
You Must Remember This’ episode on Will Hays and “Pre-Code” Hollywood
Wes Anderson Talks Early Hollywood Censorship in ‘TCM Picks’ Video for Barbara Stanwyck’s ‘Baby Face’ by Etan Vlessing for The Hollywood Reporter
How the Catholic Church censored Hollywood's Golden Age by Vox on YouTube
Baby Face: The End Of The Pre-Code Era by Paul J. Bradley for Classic Film Journal
Remembering Hollywood's Hays Code, 40 Years On by Bob Mondello for NPR
‘Tracing Hollywood’s Legacy of Self-Censorship through a Comparative Analysis of the Film Baby Face (1933) in its Censored and Uncensored Forms’ by Morgan B. Lockhart
From femme fatale to cattle rancher: how Barbara Stanwyck bucked convention by Pamela Hutchinson for The Guardian
Barbara Stanwyck: 10 essential films by Lynsey Ford for BFI
Barbara Stanwyck’s NY Times obituary
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Killer Joe (2012) dir. by William Friedkin
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