Complicated Women
#Before Hollywood had boundaries, they weren't afraid to push the limits.
Watch ‘Complicated Women’ Online. Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered film content. No longer portrayed as virgins or vamps, the liberated female of the pre-code films had dimensions. Good girls had lovers and babies and held down jobs, while the bad girls were cast in a sympathetic light. And they did it all without apology.
- Genre: Documentary, TV Movie
- Country: United States
- Director: Hugh Munro Neely
- Cast: Jane Fonda, Frances Dee, Karen Morley, Kitty Carlisle, Mae Madison, Mark Vieira, Mick LaSalle, Molly Haskell, Barbara Stanwyck, Bette Davis, C. Aubrey Smith, Chester Morris, Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Dolores del Río, Fred Astaire, Fredric March, Gene Raymond, Ginger Rogers, Greta Garbo, Helen Twelvetrees,