March 3, 2008 on Turner Classic Movies is going to be a real humdinger! Beginning at 6 AM we have the wonderful Social Worker Abortion movie,
Ann Vickers. This is easily one of the best Pre Code films I have ever seen; its smart, gorgeous, risky, glamorous and sexy. And it is about a social worker! Just like me!
Then, beginning at 8 PM, we have an onslaught of Pre Code Madness beginning with the legendary Norma Shearer superstar-making vehicle,
The Divorcee. I have never seen this, so best believe I will be planted on the couch at 7:59 PM!
After Norma Shearer tears across the world in a sex-crazed frenzy, we have the following; included are some of my favorite movies of all time (Night Nurse and Three on a Match):
| The double standard destroys a liberal couple's marriage. Cast: Norma Shearer, Chester Morris, Robert Montgomery. Dir: Robert Z. Leonard. BW-82 mins, TV-G, CC | | 9:30 PM | Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (2008) | | | This documentary looks at how the social, financial and moral forces all helped shape one of the most intriguing periods in Hollywood history. BW-68 mins, TV-MA, CC | | 10:45 PM | Night Nurse (1931) | | | A nurse discovers that the children she's caring for are murder targets. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Lyon, Clark Gable. Dir: William A. Wellman. BW-72 mins, TV-G | | 12:00 AM | Three on a Match (1932) | | | A woman's childhood friends try to rescue her from gangsters. Cast: Joan Blondell, Bette Davis, Ann Dvorak. Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. BW-63 mins, TV-PG, CC | | 1:15 AM | Female (1933) | | | A female CEO who's used to buying love meets her match in an independent young executive. Cast: Ruth Chatterton, George Brent, Johnny Mack Brown. Dir: Michael Curtiz. BW-60 mins, TV-G | | 2:30 AM | Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (2008) | | | This documentary looks at how the social, financial and moral forces all helped shape one of the most intriguing periods in Hollywood history. BW-68 mins, TV-MA, CC | | 3:45 AM | Free Soul, A (1931) | | | A hard-drinking lawyer's daughter falls for one of his underworld clients. Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Norma Shearer, Clark Gable. Dir: Clarence Brown. BW-94 mins, TV-G, CC |
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March 3, 2008 on Turner Classic Movies is going to be a real humdinger! Beginning at 6 AM we have the wonderful Social Worker Abortion movie, Ann Vickers. This is easily one of the best Pre Code films I have ever seen; its smart, gorgeous, risky, glamorous and sexy. And it is about a social worker! Just like me!
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