Pre code movies

Claudette Colbert in Cecil B DeMille’s Cleopatra (1934)

Pre-Code Hollywood is seen by many critics as one of the greatest eras in American cinema, and when it comes to costume design, I'm inclined to agree.

Anything went for a brief period in Hollywood at the start of the sound era, when suggestions of sex, sin and sordidness were all waved through by the censors. Here are 10 films that pushed the envelope.

THE BIG PARTY (JOHN G. BLYSTONE) - USA CANON: 2,3625 # 20574 # 139 year SAFETY IN NUMBERS (VICTOR SCHERTZINGER) - USA CANON: 2,9167 # 9413 # 42 year FLIRTING WIDOW (WILLIAM A. SEITER) - USA CANON: 2,8000 # 11425 # 57 year THE DEVIL'S HOLIDAY (EDMUND GOULDING) - USA CANON: 2,6900 # 13448 # 73 year OUR BLUSHING BRIDES (HARRY BEAUMONT) - USA CANON: 2,6875 # 13467 # 74 year THE OFFICE WIFE ( LLOYD BACON) - USA CANON: 2,6500 # 14336 # 83 year HER MAN (TAY GARNETT) - USA CANON: 2,5944 # 15384 # 96…

Between 1930-1934, a progressive era in Hollywood had a relaxed code of censorship which allowed sin to rule the movies.writes author Mark Vieira in n...

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After girdles and bras I think it’s time to talk a bit about underpants. Or panties, knickers, briefs, drawers- there’s a Swedish idiom that say that a beloved child has many names, and that’s seems to be true for the most intimate of all undergarments. It’s also a rather new one. Knickers have been worn under gowns earlier, but not until the 19th century it became more common. At the beginning of the 20th century, underpants were voluminous things that reached at least to the knees. Perhaps…