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I haven't seen it (I'll watch it soon enough...), but does anything top Claudette Colbert in The Sign of the Cross for "sexiness"? I mean, I get it. The Hays c
by js2 5y ago
I haven't seen it (I'll watch it soon enough...), but does anything top Claudette Colbert in The Sign of the Cross for "sexiness"?
I mean, I get it. The Hays code obviously altered movies. But I disagree it was only for the worse. In some ways, I think it improved the films of that era.
Anyway, a nice article on the topic:
https://web.archive.org/web/20180118002259/http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/features/deep-focus/pre-code-hollywood https://web.archive.org/web/20180118002259/http://www.bfi.or...
via https://letterboxd.com/flamerik/list/pre-code/ https://letterboxd.com/flamerik/list/pre-code/
And a fun site I just found:
https://pre-code.com/ https://pre-code.com/
- WalterBright 5y agoThe Sign of the Cross was 1932, pre-code! Also, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023470/trivia?item=tr0684068 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023470/trivia?item=tr0684068 Thanks for the links!
- js2 5y agoYes, of course it was. My comment was confusing. Having seen the Sign of the Cross but not Golddiggers of 1933, I was asking whether anything tops the former as a pre-code movie.
- WalterBright 5y agoI've seen Cross, but it was decades ago, and don't recall much from it. Golddiggers is just saucy fun. One of the songs is even titled "Petting in the Park" :-) The 60s generation that thinks they discovered sex should see that movie.
- js2 5y agoJust watched Gold Diggers. It was delightful. Worth it just for the Forgotten Man song at the end but I enjoyed it all. Cross is famous/infamous for the milk bath scene. https://www.nytimes.com/1979/11/16/archives/claudette-colbert-still-tells-demille-stories-walking-across.html https://www.nytimes.com/1979/11/16/archives/claudette-colber...