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.
Jane Fonda
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Frances Dee
as Self - Interviewee
Karen Morley
as Self - Interviewee
Kitty Carlisle
as Self - Interviewee
Mae Madison
as Self - Interviewee
Mark Vieira
as Self - Interviewee
Mick LaSalle
as Self - Interviewee
Molly Haskell
as Self - Interviewee
Barbara Stanwyck
as Self (archive footage)
Bette Davis
as Self (archive footage)
C. Aubrey Smith
as Self (archive footage)
Chester Morris
as Self (archive footage)
