CLUELESS (1995) Dir. Amy Heckerling

favorite female on pre-code

↳ ann dvorak: three on a match (1932)

Girls sent home from McKinley High School for wearing slacks and blue jeans, Chicago, 1946.

“The big job in one’s life, it seems to me, is finding out what is important to you and what isn’t important. It’s a major tragedy to race after things you neither want or need.”

Norma Shearer photographed by George Hurrell, October 1929.

Ramón Novarro in the 1920s.

Pre-Code Hollywood refers to the era in the American film industry between the introduction of sound in the late 1920s and the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code (usually labeled, albeit inaccurately after 1934, as the “Hays Code”) censorship guidelines. Although the Code was adopted in 1930, oversight was poor and it did not become rigorously enforced until July 1, 1934. Before that date, movie content was restricted more by local laws, negotiations between the Studio Relations Committee (SRC) and the major studios, and popular opinion than strict adherence to the Hays Code, which was often ignored by Hollywood filmmakers. As a result, films in the late 1920s and early 1930s included sexual innuendo, miscegenation, profanity, illegal drug use, promiscuity, prostitution, infidelity, abortion, intense violence and homosexuality.

Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks in their pool at Pickfair.

Louis Armstrong draws a trumpet on the head of a French punk, 1961

Maurice Goldberg ~ Olive Thomas (A camera study). Theatre Magazine vol. 29, Jan–June 1919 | src internet archive

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