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Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

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Calorie Rating: 98
Released: 2007-05-23
Running Time: 70 Minutes
Studios: A&F Productions, Playboy Enterprises,


Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was, well, nothing. This eye-opening documentary examines the rampant sexuality of early Hollywood through movie clips and reminiscences by stars of the era. Gloria Swanson, Mary Pickford, Marlene Dietrich and others relate tales of the artistic freedom that led to the draconian Production Code, which governed content from 1934 to 1968. Diane Lane narrates.

Director / Directors



Cast

Diane Lane
Character: Narrator (voice)
Chris Basinger
Character: Self
Jeanine Basinger
Character: Self

Cari Beauchamp
Character: Self
Leatrice Joy Gilbert
Character: Self
A.C. Lyles
Character: Self

Bob Mitchell
Character: Self
Barry Paris
Character: Self
Maria Riva
Character: Self

Michael Schlesinger
Character: Self
Budd Schulberg
Character: Self
Kevin Thomas
Character: Self

Mark Viera
Character: Self
Marc Wanamaker
Character: Self
William Wellman Jr.
Character: Self

Michael Westmore
Character: Self
Holly Madison
Character: Model: Special Shoot
Betsy Moore
Character: Silent Movie Theatre Actor

Paul Tucci
Character: Silent Movie Theatre Actor
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
Character: Self (archive footage)
Theda Bara
Character: Self (archive footage)

Clara Bow
Character: Self (archive footage)
Louise Brooks
Character: Self (archive footage)
Charlie Chaplin
Character: Self (archive footage)

Joan Crawford
Character: Self (archive footage)
Bebe Daniels
Character: Self (archive footage)
Bette Davis
Character: Self (archive footage)

Cecil B. DeMille
Character: Self (archive footage)
Marlene Dietrich
Character: Self (archive footage)
Douglas Fairbanks
Character: Self (archive footage)

Greta Garbo
Character: Self (archive footage)
John Gilbert
Character: Self (archive footage)
Cary Grant
Character: Self (archive footage)

D.W. Griffith
Character: Self (archive footage)
Texas Guinan
Character: Self (archive footage)
Ann Harding
Character: Self (archive footage)

Jean Harlow
Character: Self (archive footage)
Sessue Hayakawa
Character: Self (archive footage)
William H. Hays
Character: Self (archive footage)

William Randolph Hearst
Character: Self (archive footage)
Leslie Howard
Character: Self (archive footage)
Myrna Loy
Character: Self (archive footage)

Mary Miles Minter
Character: Self (archive footage)
Colleen Moore
Character: Self (archive footage)
Owen Moore
Character: Self (archive footage)

Pola Negri
Character: Self (archive footage)
Mabel Normand
Character: Self (archive footage)
Mary Pickford
Character: Self (voice) (archive footage)

Edna Purviance
Character: Self (archive footage)
Virginia Rappe
Character: Self (archive footage)
Theodore Roosevelt
Character: Self (archive footage)

Barbara Stanwyck
Character: Self (archive footage)
Gloria Swanson
Character: Self (voice) (archive footage)
Rudolph Valentino
Character: Self (archive footage)

Fannie Ward
Character: Self (archive footage)
Mae West
Character: Self (archive footage)
Woodrow Wilson
Character: Self (archive footage)


Production and Crew

Todd Friedrichsen
Director of Photography


Maria Newman
Original Music Composer
John Sinner
Associate Producer

Kathryn Rzasa
Supervising Producer
Barbara Lockridge
Associate Producer
Sarah Weiss
Assistant Editor

Kristen Kirst
Costume Supervisor
Sarah J. Baker
Associate Producer
Marvin Paige
Associate Producer

Bill Sheehy
Additional Photography

Jeff Levy
Sound Engineer
Richard Rosenzweig
Co-Executive Producer

Haydee Serrano
Makeup & Hair
Hugh Hefner
Executive Producer
Jason Burns
Co-Executive Producer

Luana Osling
Graphic Designer

Jeff Levy
Production Sound Mixer