Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood

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A List of the films noted in San Francisco Chronicle film critic Mick LaSalle’s book about the types of female roles in the Pre-code 1930s movies and the actresses who played them.

Note: Although the vast majority of these films are deemed pre-code, not every one is, as the author does a few comparisons to films from the silent era and the second half of the 1930s.

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  1. 1.
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    After Midnight

  2. 2.
    The Animal Kingdom
    by Edward H. Griffith

  3. 3.
    Anna Christie
    by Clarence Brown

  4. 4.
    Anna Karenina (1935)
    by Clarence Brown

  5. 5.
    Ann Vickers (1933)
    by John Cromwell

  6. 6.
    As You Desire Me
    by George Fitzmaurice

  7. 7.
    Baby Face (1933)
    by Alfred E. Green

  8. 8.
    ?
    Bad Company (1931)
    by Tay Garnett

  9. 9.
    The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)
    by Sidney Franklin

  10. 10.
    Beast of the City
    by Charles Brabin

  11. 11.
    ?
    Beauty for Sale (1933)

  12. 12.
    Bed of Roses (1933)
    by Gregory La Cava

  13. 13.
    Belle of the Nineties
    by Leo McCarey

  14. 14.
    Big Business Girl [VHS]
    by William A. Seiter

  15. 15.
    Blonde Crazy (1931)
    by Roy Del Ruth

  16. 16.
    Blonde Venus (1932)
    by Josef von Sternberg

  17. 17.
    Blondie Johnson [Remaster]
    by Ray Enright

  18. 18.
    ?
    Bondage

  19. 19.
    ?
    Born To Be Bad (1934)

  20. 20.
    ?
    Born to Love

  21. 21.
    ?
    Broadway After Dark

  22. 22.

  23. 23.
    Call Her Savage (1932)
    by John Francis Dillon

  24. 24.
    Camille
    by George Cukor

  25. 25.
    China Seas
    by Reginald Le Borg

  26. 26.
    ?
    The Common Law
    by Paul L. Stein

  27. 27.
    Conquest
    by Clarence Brown

  28. 28.
    ?
    The Crowd Roars (1932)
    by Howard Hawks

  29. 29.
    Dance; Fools; Dance
    by Harry Beaumont

  30. 30.
    Dancing Lady
    by Robert Z. Leonard

  31. 31.
    Design for Living (1933)
    by Ernst Lubitsch

  32. 32.
    ?
    The Devil's Circus

  33. 33.
    Dinner at Eight

  34. 34.
    Dishonored (1931)
    by Josef von Sternberg

  35. 35.
    The Divorcee (1930)
    by Robert Z. Leonard

  36. 36.
    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
    by Rouben Mamoulian

  37. 37.
    Dr. Monica (1934)
    by William Keighley

  38. 38.
    Dodsworth

  39. 39.
    Downstairs (1932)
    by Monta Bell

  40. 40.
    The Easiest Way
    by Jack Conway

  41. 41.
    East Lynne (1931)
    by Frank Lloyd

  42. 42.
    Employees' Entrance (1933)
    by Roy Del Ruth

  43. 43.
    Escape
    by Mervyn LeRoy

  44. 44.
    Faithless (1932)
    by Harry Beaumont

  45. 45.
    Female (1933)
    by Michael Curtiz

  46. 46.
    ?
    The Firebird (1934)

  47. 47.
    ?
    The Flame Within

  48. 48.
    Flesh and the Devil (1926)
    by Clarence Brown

  49. 49.
    Flying Down to Rio
    by Thornton Freeland

  50. 50.
    Fog Over Frisco
    by William Dieterle

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