![]() ![]() Subject matter and human activity on screen had to be toned down for the proverbial Sunday School Picnic. When the Production Code was enforced the resulting repression squashed half the life out of Hollywood movies. Desperate to build audiences in the worst years of the Depression, the studios (un-)dressed their heroines in scanty costumes and played naughty games with double-entendre dialogue. It was an early introduction to the frisky delights of early 1930s movies that hadn't had all the saucy content scalded out by puritanical censors. Working for MGM Home Video in 1992, I remember editing a humorous sales promo for a new VHS line called "Forbidden Hollywood". Starring William Powell, Kay Francis, Joan Blondell, David Manners, Una Merkel, Loretta Young, Geroge Brent, Louis Calhern.Äirected by William Dieterle, William Dieterle, William Dieterle, Thornton Freeland ![]() Street Date J/ available through the Warner Archive Collection / 39.95 Jewel Robbery, Lawyer Man, Man Wanted, They Call It SinÄ¡932 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 68, 68, 62, 69 min. ![]()
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