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  • Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007)
  • 70 min | Documentary, History
Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007)
70 min | Documentary, History

An overview of the portrayal and influence of sexuality on film, from the silent era until the administration of the Hays Code in 1934.
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May 23, 2007 (United States)

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58 cast members
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Diane Lane
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Leatrice Joy Gilbert
Self (as Leatrice Gilbert Fountain) Self (as Leatrice Gilbert Fountain)   See fewer
Holly Madison
Model: Special Shoot (as Holly Jean Madison) Model: Special Shoot (as Holly Jean Madison)   See fewer
Betsy Moore
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Paul Tucci
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Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
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Theda Bara
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Clara Bow
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Louise Brooks
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Charles Chaplin
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Joan Crawford
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Bebe Daniels
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Bette Davis
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Cecil B. DeMille
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Marlene Dietrich
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Douglas Fairbanks
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Greta Garbo
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John Gilbert
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Cary Grant
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D.W. Griffith
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Texas Guinan
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Ann Harding
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Jean Harlow
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Sessue Hayakawa
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Will H. Hays
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William Randolph Hearst
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Leslie Howard
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Myrna Loy
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Mary Miles Minter
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Colleen Moore
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Owen Moore
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Pola Negri
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Mabel Normand
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Mary Pickford
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Edna Purviance
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Virginia Rappe
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Barbara Stanwyck
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Gloria Swanson
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Rudolph Valentino
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Fannie Ward
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Mae West
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Woodrow Wilson
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