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    Jan 31, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  1. When skinny-dipping didn't violate the Code ★★★ 1/2

    In the early sound era, especially between 1930 and mid-1934, Hollywood movies enjoyed a freedom of expression — salacious, violent, often outrageous expression — we know today as the pre-Code era. The film industry's self-appointed watchdog agency, the Production Code Administration, looked the other way for a while, until the Catholic Legion of Decency and other forces leveraged a cleanup. Before that, however, the studios managed to sneak some hints, at least, of the roughed-up desperation of the Depression onto the nation's screens.
    In the early sound era, especially between 1930 and mid-1934, Hollywood movies enjoyed a freedom of expression — salacious, violent, often outrageous expression — we know today as the pre-Code era. The film industry's self-appointed watchdog...

    Tags: Joan Bennett, Arts and Culture, Ralph Bellamy, Genres, Raoul Walsh

    2. Aug 3, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  2. 'The Gang's All Here': Miranda's bananas part of film's appeal

    For a brief moment in the timeline of planet Earth, there was Carmen Miranda. Fourteen films' worth, not counting appearances in early television, radio and nightclubs. And she was really something. Else. Something else. Drag queens the world over can never thank her enough.
    For a brief moment in the timeline of planet Earth, there was Carmen Miranda. Fourteen films' worth, not counting appearances in early television, radio and nightclubs. And she was really something. Else. Something else. Drag queens the world over can...

    Tags: Charlotte Greenwood, Music, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., Lifestyle and Leisure, Bananas

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