@@JENDALL714 I did a little research on this which I should have done before shooting my mouth off. TheHollywood censorship code was known as the Hays Code, drawn up by President Warren G. Harding's Postmaster General for some reason. Hays was also a Presbyterian pastor. I can't find any information whether or not it was ever actually a gov't. act, but it went into effect in 1930 but was not rigidly enforced until 1934. It was in effect right up until 1968 although by then it was largely ignored.
Here is a good article on the Hays code and the Catholic Church's involvement. www.google.com/amp/s/cruxnow.com/church-in-the-usa/2019/12/catholicism-influenced-moviemaking-from-the-early-days-of-film/amp/
I really recommend that people watch more films from pre- Hays Code Hollywood. There’s a real gritty charm that went away with the slicker 40s and 50s stuff. thanks for uploading.👍
Wonderful! Mae West 1926 play on Broadway called 'Sex' where she was arrested and Jailed for about a week and the subsequent sexual movies she wrote in the 1930s had a lot to do with the Hays code. I adored Ms. West. A major figure in Hollywood films. Also, a civil rights advocate who insisted on hiring the Duke Ellington band on her 1934 movie 'Belle of the Nineties. They made a record together.
@@michiganjfrog What the scene where she trying to keep the lions away from her and you see she isnt wearing undies ? Check it out its toward the end before Tarzan saves her .
This is fucking HILARIOUS. Such a shame that creativity was stifled as it was for the codes put into place. Makes you wonder what could have been if it weren't for these ridiculous censorship laws.
Wonderful...wonderful clips...wonderful quality....wonderful old stars - Stanwyck, Cagney, Kibbee and many more....most are not pre-production code, though great examples of the risque freshness and wit of Thirties Hollywood.
The Production Code, itself, was adopted in 1930, but it wasn’t strictly enforced until July 1934. While it’s a misnomer, “Pre-Codes” are those films released before Code enforcement. All of the clips I use in my Pre-Codes: Classic Clips videos come from films released before July ’34, and therefore are pre-Codes.
Dorothy Mackail, Jimmy, Joan Blondell etc. Great to see these clips as the films are rarely if ever shown nowadays. Well done Kevin and God bless Warner Bros!..
Cagney and Blondell were my favorite pair. He was dynamite. She was an underappreciated talent. Barbara Stanwyck is my all time favorite actress, a real trailblazer, played the kind of woman your mom warned you about, but you always end up routing for her characters. She was a giant. The only one that even came close was Bette Davis.
Curious George - You’ll like this: years ago, I saw my dad’s early-fifties high school yearbook and most of his friends wrote “To a swell guy” - in complete seriousness!
She was a woman's woman. A credit to a strong majority of those women, they didn't consider men to be the bane of society. Now that today's women do, we have a society so screwed up coming or going is a strain on both sexes.
@@Mike583 I didn’t personally age-restrict any of my videos. Someone watching them reported them to the UA-cam censors and it was they who age-restricted them. In order to view them you need to be over 18, and signed in to UA-cam. So far, I’ve had three videos age-restricted: Pre-Codes: Bare Necessities ua-cam.com/video/7SdC0tCkh9o/v-deo.html Pre-Codes: Step-ins Time ua-cam.com/video/wCZJCyodrEA/v-deo.html Pre-Codes: Wanted: Men ua-cam.com/video/krPwfWcQP5g/v-deo.html All of them are made up of clips from films released before July of 1934, and appear regularly on TCM. It’s the fine folks at UA-cam who find them ‘offensive’ or ‘objectionable’ or whatever. They DON’T find objectionable, however, the head-exploding scene from the R-RATED film, SCANNERS, which is NOT age-restricted and can be viewed here, in HD! ua-cam.com/video/qnp1jfLhtck/v-deo.html
Yeah we are losing our rights to artistic expression and we don't even know it, yet we have to listen to crude and vile language in some music lyrics blasting from radios and that's ok
So I guess nobody picked up that in the clip at :16 these women are in prison and THOSE ARE THEIR PRISON UNIFORMS... the movie is Women They Talk About and it's set at San Quentin! (Which had women inmates until 1933) Not sure I've ever seen prison uniforms with lace on them.
He pushed a damn grapefruit into Mae Clark's face. Not cool. However, Cagney, in real life wouldn't have done it. He was, after all, playing a thug. He was a fairly together, married/family man.
@@FranSanTeeth90 It's a film in which he plays an unpleasant character. What did you want, rainbows and unicorns? Women still casually slap men in the face in movie scenes to this day. Do you ever get on your moral high horse about that? Thought not. Grow up.
@@waynej2608 So he was playing an unpleasant character who WOULD have done it, therefore the character DID do it. Stop being such a virtue-signalling, politically correct pussy and realize these scenes didn't condone the character's actions, they merely confirm the character he was playing was what he was.
@BILL MURRAY. Because they have to virtue-signal and get on their moral high horse about something or other these days - while of course ignoring the despicable things their own generation gets up to these days - oh, and they can't seem to differentiate between a film and actual reality.
The Code wasn't just about sex. It also prohibited, among other things, content that would tend to glorify crime or anarchy, denigrate law enforcement or other duly-constituted public authority, promote drug use or homosexuality, or demean capitalism or the United States' way of government. In other words, it imposed a thorough censorship at the movies. Its implementation was phased-in over two years (1934-35) -- allegedly to allow studios to train their people in the Code and have them get used to operating under its strictures, but really to allow Hollywood to squeeze the last nickel they could out of some still-valuable properties (e.g., Mae West, whose popularity was based solely on her non-Code-compliant double entendre shtick) and to retire a few good, but principled and thus recalcitrant, directors. As under most such regimes, the Hayes Board didn't actually have to make many "tough calls" after the system got rolling -- pre-emptive self-censorship becoming the order of the day. Sponsors -- who ran merchandising tie-ins with movies all the time back then -- were especially concerned that they not be linked with any potentially scandalous content by Hayes, so they frequently demanded script-level control/right of last review.
Couldn't demean or denigrate any element or institution of religion, either. The Roman Catholic Legion of Decency rated films as suitable or not for Catholics, and they were a big enough bloc at the time that the film industry was dragged along.
I know a dame, Trixie Glendale, who wrote a book, "Black-eyed Kids." If it were made into a film, the censors would reduce it to about 12 minutes because of 'out of code' violations, not to mention fourth wall violations ranging from mild to wrecking-ball. I don't care if it sells, I'd like to make it as-is, without regard for Codes. Fukkem! But I have to get me the films that these awesome naughty scenes are in!
A terrific looping right hook from Ms. Stanwyck. A certain ex-prize-fighter turned private license from Boston would be proud! Spenser, with an "S", like the poet.
I was watching clips of Eleanor Powell from the late 30s, after the code, and was always struck by how sanitized they were. Of course she may have wanted it that way, but all movies after the code had that same feel to them and had all the grit scrubbed away.
While she’ll be in upcoming Classic Clip volumes, she-and her stunt double-appear in my video pre-Codes: Bare Necessities. O’Sullivan, from the film “Payment Deferred,” also appears in my video pre-Codes: Step-Ins Time.
Gotta love the subtlety, the inuendo, that just daring enough risque undertone that always keeps me hanging on. When woman was a woman and you could tell the difference.
I like it how people think that movies used to be so clean, all Andy and Opie with no traces of sexual suggestion at all. Actually, the truth is quite different. I read somewhere that the first film was recorded in like 1890-something, and that within two years of that first snippet of film, the first pornographic movie was made. I can totally believe it.
The fellow is Guy Kibbee, a solid character actor of that time (1882-1956 / acted 1902-1950). Yvonne De Carlo only started her Hollywood career in the 1940's, so that clip is too early for it to be her. 🌟
Of the Pre-Code: Classic Clip videos I've uploaded, I think four have been age-restricted, three of which are still posted. The video I'd posted earlier this year that I pulled I've since re-edited and will re-post later this week. My hope is that it will no longer be age-restricted, but that's up to UA-cam and the viewers.
Gee, these aren't so bad. Cagney smashing Mae Clarke in the face with a grapefruit is a classic. A truly uptight society about sex. I prefer these movies to the junk that Hollywood is putting out today, though.
It's easy to be confused with "pre-code" because most of the things that people believe are based on exaggeration. Some pre-code movies are quite racy when compared to the movies that followed in the 1930's until the late 1950's. But compared to movies made today, there was nothing shocking. Even before the Hollywood Production Code was brought in, nudity was rare, there was no profanity, no sex scenes, not like we have now. Some of the most "objectionable" things are laughable by our modern-day standards. Many of the objections came from parents who did not want their children to ask questions about something they saw or heard at the cinema. For example, in Born To Be Bad (1932) Loretta Young is a single mom and at one point she tells Cary Grant (about her son), "I've told him everything. He knows where babies come from". In Trouble In Paradise (1932) the criminals get away with their crimes and that prevented the film from being shown publically for over 30 years. I remember a film where a man and woman are in adjoining rooms in a hotel and when next morning comes the doors are open and it's clear that the bed in one room had not been slept in. In another movie a woman keeps a change of clothes at her boyfriend's apartment and that scene had to be cut as recently as the 1950's. The examples are endless. The Wild One (1953) was not censored by the Code but nevertheless was banned in many places because Marlon Brando rode off, unpunished, at the end. Americans have a strange moral code, don't they?
Totally. Hollywood was great despite the stupid code. The extreme wing of the Catholic Church at the time was really to blame. Heck, the two writers of the Code and Breen, the head of the Production Code Administration, were all Catholic fundamentalists, fanatics. Members of Catholic Mass ast the time all over the country were told to recite a pledge to not see immoral Hollywood movies of they would be committing a sin that would cause them to lose their salvation. The Left and the Right are both the same - hysterical fanatics. But I gotta say the new politically correct production code is 100 times worse than the old one.
I don't agree. For one thing, the Code banned the depiction of cruelty to animals. For another, it proscribed such detailed commission of crimes that they could be imitated. In addition, the subtlety with which eroticism was conveyed was very intelligent. You knew EXACTLY what they meant, without any crudity. For example, in Call of the Wild, Clark Gable hands Loretta Young a dipper of water to drink from, after using it himself. He courteously turns it around so that she can drink from the untouched side. She deliberately & slowly turns it right back around, so that she can press her lips to the part he touched with his, all the while maintaining direct eye contact! Hot! 🔥
At that time, many states, cities and towns had their own local censor boards for films. The Code was implemented to stave off the threat of government censorship of movies at the national level. As for freedom of expression, it wasn't until 1952 that the Supreme Court ruled that motion pictures were a form of speech protected by the First Amendment. (See Burstyn v. Wilson)
You think this is risque'? Try reading their biographies. James Stewart is a great start, or maybe George Hamilton, but Shelley Winters will shock you to your core.
I read her 2 bios. She certainly liked men and they liked her back (Burt Lancaster, Errol Flynn, and William Holden to name a few). Quite busy, she was ...
I LOVE pre-code Hollywood. There's such a rawness to everything.
They sere testing their limits. Until the gov't moved in.
@@erikswanson5753 Actually, it wasn't the Government it was the Catholic Church that took over Hollywood, until the late 60's.
@@JENDALL714 I did a little research on this which I should have done before shooting my mouth off. TheHollywood censorship code was known as the Hays Code, drawn up by President Warren G. Harding's Postmaster General for some reason. Hays was also a Presbyterian pastor. I can't find any information whether or not it was ever actually a gov't. act, but it went into effect in 1930 but was not rigidly enforced until 1934. It was in effect right up until 1968 although by then it was largely ignored.
Here is a good article on the Hays code and the Catholic Church's involvement. www.google.com/amp/s/cruxnow.com/church-in-the-usa/2019/12/catholicism-influenced-moviemaking-from-the-early-days-of-film/amp/
@@JENDALL714 Hey thanks. I'll have a look.
I really recommend that people watch more films from pre- Hays Code Hollywood. There’s a real gritty charm that went away with the slicker 40s and 50s stuff. thanks for uploading.👍
The flipping Hayes codes stunk.
The 1925 silent film Ben Hur had decapitations and topless wimmins. Pure Roman decadence.
Dude listen to some of the radio.
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Actors behaved free and natural during those pre-code days, like real people. The so called Hays Code is like a cinematic version of Prohibition.
"Could you go for a doctor?" "Certainly! Bring him right in."
I watched this in my Film 1895 to 1945 class when going over the Production Code and I love this montage.
Love the "Stip-poker" running gag !! 🤣😂🤣😂
Guy Kibbee playing strip poker? How do I get away? And why don't you do it?
“must be something wrong with your technique, dearie”
IM CRYING
Man alive, some of them old movies was pretttty racy! 😄
Can't wait to use these lines at birthday parties and social gatherings.
Wonderful! Mae West 1926 play on Broadway called 'Sex' where she was arrested and
Jailed for about a week and the subsequent sexual movies she wrote in the 1930s had a lot to do with the Hays code. I adored Ms. West. A major figure in Hollywood films. Also, a civil rights advocate who insisted on hiring the Duke Ellington band on her 1934 movie
'Belle of the Nineties. They made a record together.
You Mae West but you can't Cary Grant...
@@NordicDanyou also can't Rock the Hudson.
@@OOICU812 Nor would it be wise to Hassle the Hoff
That clip of the shower bucket falling on her head cracks me up.
Reminds me of when I had no money but didn't care because I was young.
:40 to :53 “strip poker, how do you play that?” .....look on his face is priceless!
Tarzan and His Mate underwater scene is one of the best.
It's featured in one of my first pre-Code videos and is why UA-cam age-restricted the video: ua-cam.com/video/7SdC0tCkh9o/v-deo.html
@@michiganjfrog What the scene where she trying to keep the lions away from her and you see she isnt wearing undies ? Check it out its toward the end before Tarzan saves her .
That was the first bush I ever saw. Though it was a double that performed that scene for Maureen O'Sullivan I didn't know or care at the time.
@@speedracer1945: There are some great still photos of that scene on Google as well. Maureen O'Sullivan was smoking fukin' hot!
@@jaelge it was, she was an accomplished swimmer as was weismuller
This is fucking HILARIOUS. Such a shame that creativity was stifled as it was for the codes put into place. Makes you wonder what could have been if it weren't for these ridiculous censorship laws.
Wonderful...wonderful clips...wonderful quality....wonderful old stars - Stanwyck, Cagney, Kibbee and many more....most are not pre-production code, though great examples of the risque freshness and wit of Thirties Hollywood.
The Production Code, itself, was adopted in 1930, but it wasn’t strictly enforced until July 1934. While it’s a misnomer, “Pre-Codes” are those films released before Code enforcement. All of the clips I use in my Pre-Codes: Classic Clips videos come from films released before July ’34, and therefore are pre-Codes.
@@michiganjfrog do you have any clips of Murder At The Vanities? Or The Sign of the Cross?
1:54 makes me laugh every time!!!
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“Do it again, I like it!!!”
😂🤣
Is there a fetish masochism very taboo back then? probably still is
Thats the beautiful and late Jean Harlow!
@@missyglittervlogs3543 oh man, she was only 26 when she passed. that probably seemed so tragic way back when. still seems tragic today honestly.
The Cheryl Tunt of her day.
An encouragement to wife beaters.
Two of my fave blondes. . .Joan Blondell and Jean Harlow. . .Oh. to have Jean Harlow asking me to "do it again, I like it!"
Love those gals. Ann Dvorak and Carole Lombard, too. 😍
An encouragement to wife beaters.
Dorothy Mackail, Jimmy, Joan Blondell etc. Great to see these clips as the films are rarely if ever shown nowadays. Well done Kevin and God bless Warner Bros!..
Cagney and Blondell were my favorite pair. He was dynamite. She was an underappreciated talent. Barbara Stanwyck is my all time favorite actress, a real trailblazer, played the kind of woman your mom warned you about, but you always end up routing for her characters. She was a giant. The only one that even came close was Bette Davis.
Omigod the woman playing strip poker is Jimmy's mom from the classic MST3K episode "I Accuse My Parents.'
1:42...ha-ha-ha...LOL....I love all of them...but that clip is GREAT..!!!
Glad you liked the video. The clip is from “Female” (1934).
Hubba hubba.
Now those are some swell dames.
Our great-grandparents knew how to party.
And not a tattoo to be seen.
Curious George - You’ll like this: years ago, I saw my dad’s early-fifties high school yearbook and most of his friends wrote “To a swell guy” - in complete seriousness!
@@Jon-es-i6o I agree with that one.👍
@@thetooginator153 that's a hoot, as my Grandfather would say.
The Trans-Atlantic dialect should make a comeback! It sounds fun.
Barbara Stanwyck or "Missy" was a certified wild thing. She did everything. Weee
With everybody.
She was a woman's woman. A credit to a strong majority of those women, they didn't consider men to be the bane of society. Now that today's women do, we have a society so screwed up coming or going is a strain on both sexes.
@@danrowley6934 k
The Irony is, many pre- code clips can't be shown because they would violate You Tubes codes - just say'in
You are right. Some of my pre-Code video clips have been age-restricted.
@@michiganjfrog If you age restricted them,can you show them?
@@Mike583 I didn’t personally age-restrict any of my videos. Someone watching them reported them to the UA-cam censors and it was they who age-restricted them. In order to view them you need to be over 18, and signed in to UA-cam. So far, I’ve had three videos age-restricted:
Pre-Codes: Bare Necessities ua-cam.com/video/7SdC0tCkh9o/v-deo.html
Pre-Codes: Step-ins Time ua-cam.com/video/wCZJCyodrEA/v-deo.html
Pre-Codes: Wanted: Men ua-cam.com/video/krPwfWcQP5g/v-deo.html
All of them are made up of clips from films released before July of 1934, and appear regularly on TCM. It’s the fine folks at UA-cam who find them ‘offensive’ or ‘objectionable’ or whatever. They DON’T find objectionable, however, the head-exploding scene from the R-RATED film, SCANNERS, which is NOT age-restricted and can be viewed here, in HD! ua-cam.com/video/qnp1jfLhtck/v-deo.html
Yeah we are losing our rights to artistic expression and we don't even know it, yet we have to listen to crude and vile language in some music lyrics blasting from radios and that's ok
Nooooo!
So I guess nobody picked up that in the clip at :16 these women are in prison and THOSE ARE THEIR PRISON UNIFORMS... the movie is Women They Talk About and it's set at San Quentin! (Which had women inmates until 1933) Not sure I've ever seen prison uniforms with lace on them.
I'm 66 now,but I can remember seeing a few of these movies on tv!
Man would i like to pick your brain about some things in the past. Just make sure you tell your story to someone younger so to keep the information
Very enjoyable, thanks!
Thank you too!
I remember James Cagney and that grapefruit scene in
PUBLIC ENEMY.
Looked harmless to me.
Why did some people have issues
with it?
Hit women often, huh?
He pushed a damn grapefruit into Mae Clark's face. Not cool. However, Cagney, in real life wouldn't have done it. He was, after all, playing a thug. He was a fairly together, married/family man.
@@FranSanTeeth90 It's a film in which he plays an unpleasant character. What did you want, rainbows and unicorns? Women still casually slap men in the face in movie scenes to this day. Do you ever get on your moral high horse about that? Thought not. Grow up.
@@waynej2608 So he was playing an unpleasant character who WOULD have done it, therefore the character DID do it. Stop being such a virtue-signalling, politically correct pussy and realize these scenes didn't condone the character's actions, they merely confirm the character he was playing was what he was.
@BILL MURRAY. Because they have to virtue-signal and get on their moral high horse about something or other these days - while of course ignoring the despicable things their own generation gets up to these days - oh, and they can't seem to differentiate between a film and actual reality.
Thanx 4 uploading these Kevin! I enjoy watching them a lot!
I am 60 and I had seen some of old rerun movies back in the day . That is when I I got to see a TV .
I'm 66 Jeff. I've seen even more. Some were a lot naughtier than shown on here
How about watching the movie called "Bank Holiday" made in the late '30s, it's English. It has some risque stuff in it.
Another great job! (Bob Jones)
Just so great! Thanks!
The Code wasn't just about sex. It also prohibited, among other things, content that would tend to glorify crime or anarchy, denigrate law enforcement or other duly-constituted public authority, promote drug use or homosexuality, or demean capitalism or the United States' way of government. In other words, it imposed a thorough censorship at the movies. Its implementation was phased-in over two years (1934-35) -- allegedly to allow studios to train their people in the Code and have them get used to operating under its strictures, but really to allow Hollywood to squeeze the last nickel they could out of some still-valuable properties (e.g., Mae West, whose popularity was based solely on her non-Code-compliant double entendre shtick) and to retire a few good, but principled and thus recalcitrant, directors. As under most such regimes, the Hayes Board didn't actually have to make many "tough calls" after the system got rolling -- pre-emptive self-censorship becoming the order of the day. Sponsors -- who ran merchandising tie-ins with movies all the time back then -- were especially concerned that they not be linked with any potentially scandalous content by Hayes, so they frequently demanded script-level control/right of last review.
The Code seems quite a healthy thing. Shame it was abandoned.
Couldn't demean or denigrate any element or institution of religion, either. The Roman Catholic Legion of Decency rated films as suitable or not for Catholics, and they were a big enough bloc at the time that the film industry was dragged along.
@@loopshackr Frankenstein was the last movie where one could say they are god.
I am curious if movie theaters didn't always know what kind of movie they were getting since they were not rated.
@@ВладимирКруглов-к9о"shame"?
I had no idea that famour christine keeler pic was a copy! Mind offically blown
Good stuff. Goooood stuff.
0:18 Barbara Stanwyck, 1:57 Jean Harlow, 2:40 Ginger Rogers, 5:02 Joan Blondell.
Barbra Stanwyck and Joan Crawford were such hot, tough face-slappin' gals. They kept at right to the end.
Philip Longee but real good friends in life
I know a dame, Trixie Glendale, who wrote a book, "Black-eyed Kids." If it were made into a film, the censors would reduce it to about 12 minutes because of 'out of code' violations, not to mention fourth wall violations ranging from mild to wrecking-ball. I don't care if it sells, I'd like to make it as-is, without regard for Codes. Fukkem!
But I have to get me the films that these awesome naughty scenes are in!
the Cagney he was some thing god bless
The second slapper in the opening scene is Barbara Stanwyck.
Stanwyck upped the ante with fist.
A terrific looping right hook from Ms. Stanwyck. A certain ex-prize-fighter turned private license from Boston would be proud!
Spenser, with an "S", like the poet.
Great one
I was watching clips of Eleanor Powell from the late 30s, after the code, and was always struck by how sanitized they were. Of course she may have wanted it that way, but all movies after the code had that same feel to them and had all the grit scrubbed away.
Pre-code is just better.
Ah yes..a little precode slap and tickle before the main event. They were swell. Really swell. Let’s see more
Some great clips here. Anyone know what movie 2:55 - 3:18 is from?
Answering my own question - Safe in Hell / The Lost Lady, unless anyone knows any better.
@@dannyfenris7708 It is Safe In Hell (1931).
@@michiganjfrog Thanks 👍. I bet all these movies are great.
Without the code, you can imagine where we’d be now. Wait a tick.
Do it again .i like it !
An encouragement to wife beaters.
Where's Maureen O'Sullivan as Jane in the Tarzan Movies?
While she’ll be in upcoming Classic Clip volumes, she-and her stunt double-appear in my video pre-Codes: Bare Necessities. O’Sullivan, from the film “Payment Deferred,” also appears in my video pre-Codes: Step-Ins Time.
I am SO glad Guy Kibbie stopped when he did!
Gotta love the subtlety, the inuendo, that just daring enough risque undertone that always keeps me hanging on. When woman was a woman and you could tell the difference.
Luv it!
You can add the movies in subtitles
I like it how people think that movies used to be so clean, all Andy and Opie with no traces of sexual suggestion at all. Actually, the truth is quite different. I read somewhere that the first film was recorded in like 1890-something, and that within two years of that first snippet of film, the first pornographic movie was made. I can totally believe it.
I'm actually surprised it wasn't the *first*
Sex and violence drives technological advancements.
Museum of Sex in NY discusses this....
Same with photographs.
It’s tough when you’re old with a broken pornograph needle.
@:03 Ravel's Bolero was an item even before the movie "10".
Stripe poker? How do you play that? 😂😂😂
1:43!!! 😂🤣😂🤣
100% Excellent!!!
Thank you. I'm glad you liked the video.
Times haven't changed that much. Men and women still at odds.
No, once it was all in fun, now there is true animus between us.
J. Edgar Hoover cameo at 1:07
That was fun!
Jimmy Cagney, handling silky underwear, whistling “Happy Days Are Here Again”.
Hot! Hot! Hot!
Sure am glad THAT never got cut.
That strip poker, can’t get more risqué than that
3:01 homedude is a dead ringer for David Arquette in Scream
Perhaps in this so called liberated world, youtube is far too prissy for its own good and should remember they are not necessarily top of the pile.
If Jimmy Cagney is whistling "Happy Days" at the wrapping, what will he sing for the gift?
Joan Blondell was the best of the best.
So Hot.
3:30 That scene was unscripted .
Wow,really?? He looked so mad lol
I played video strip poker in Vegas, I lost my shirt!
I think I can top that, I lost my 'ass', in Vegas! Lmao.
That was so funny
Thanks, I'm glad you liked the video.
2:15 natalie dormer in a past life
Alice White, I believe. A knockout. www.imdb.com/name/nm0924442/mediaviewer/rm275961857/?context=default
Ahh, pre code Hollywood
@2:37 Shower scene--- I wonder if that's Yvonne Dicarlo ?-- you know AKA Lily Munster-- + The old chap playin' strip poker was pretty funny !!!
The fellow is Guy Kibbee, a solid character actor of that time (1882-1956 / acted 1902-1950). Yvonne De Carlo only started her Hollywood career in the 1940's, so that clip is too early for it to be her. 🌟
The woman in the shower scene is none other than Ginger Rogers. It's from the film Rafter Romance (1933).
@@michiganjfrog
Thanks! Didn't recognize her with her hair all covered. 🚿
@@michiganjfrog You would have to admit I had a pretty good guess !! I would of bet $$$ I was rite on that one !! Thanks for the info--
@4:10--- poor bastard--- I think he's been takin' !!!!
The shame is in not giving us the titles of the movies.
The films are listed above under "...more"
Oh reality how I miss it.
Never to be seen by us again. By us anyway!
@Dr. M. H. True for before. Now when you look at the screen.... That's your reality, fucken nuts!
I know you have many precode films that you havent uploaded cause of age restrictions. Is there any way you can send them to people like email?
Of the Pre-Code: Classic Clip videos I've uploaded, I think four have been age-restricted, three of which are still posted. The video I'd posted earlier this year that I pulled I've since re-edited and will re-post later this week. My hope is that it will no longer be age-restricted, but that's up to UA-cam and the viewers.
Nowadays, these clips probably look tame compared to Family Guy.
Yeah, right. People would still complain about the content, only it'd be how outdated and "problematic" it is.
@@canaisyoung3601 I honestly wouldn't doubt it if there are feminist articles complaining about how "sexist" it is. Lol.
Thanks
0:16 THEY HAVE POCKETS?!
Cagney was the best
Love the Player's Handbook Profile pic! ;) (And Cagney was a true talent...).
Thank You :-)
I met Him in the early 1980s' great man and great sense of Humor
Gee, these aren't so bad. Cagney smashing Mae Clarke in the face with a grapefruit is a classic. A truly uptight society about sex. I prefer these movies to the junk that Hollywood is putting out today, though.
Ostensibly uptight, it's true. But I once heard an old guy say, "There was just as much fucking going on then. We just didn't talk about it."
Three Stooges short Disorder in the Court, the girl dancing has more jiggles that bowl of jell-o
This is PG level stuff today.
I can’t see how with today film & tv that any of these pre code couldn’t be seen
I'm confused. Practically full porn on today's tv and movie shows
It's easy to be confused with "pre-code" because most of the things that people believe are based on exaggeration. Some pre-code movies are quite racy when compared to the movies that followed in the 1930's until the late 1950's. But compared to movies made today, there was nothing shocking. Even before the Hollywood Production Code was brought in, nudity was rare, there was no profanity, no sex scenes, not like we have now. Some of the most "objectionable" things are laughable by our modern-day standards.
Many of the objections came from parents who did not want their children to ask questions about something they saw or heard at the cinema. For example, in Born To Be Bad (1932) Loretta Young is a single mom and at one point she tells Cary Grant (about her son), "I've told him everything. He knows where babies come from". In Trouble In Paradise (1932) the criminals get away with their crimes and that prevented the film from being shown publically for over 30 years. I remember a film where a man and woman are in adjoining rooms in a hotel and when next morning comes the doors are open and it's clear that the bed in one room had not been slept in. In another movie a woman keeps a change of clothes at her boyfriend's apartment and that scene had to be cut as recently as the 1950's. The examples are endless. The Wild One (1953) was not censored by the Code but nevertheless was banned in many places because Marlon Brando rode off, unpunished, at the end.
Americans have a strange moral code, don't they?
When you're playing strip poker against Guy Kibbee and get four aces, what do you do? Keep it to yourself.
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@@johnkelsiemcnair7787 Thanks. In hindsight, I should have ended with "Fold".
Oh how times have changed. That was back when men were men and women were glad.
Nothing is ever exposed.
Even today in A- list movies they don't show nudity.
Where is the ravel music scene at the begining from
It's from "Bolero" (1934).
My kind of equality.
The Hayes Code was an awful idea and a violation of freedom of expression.
Oh in Germany 1933- 1945 we had no Hayes Code . Watch the movie ,Der Postmeister' 1940 and ,Münchhausen' from 1942 vor 1943. You will be surprised.
Totally. Hollywood was great despite the stupid code. The extreme wing of the Catholic Church at the time was really to blame. Heck, the two writers of the Code and Breen, the head of the Production Code Administration, were all Catholic fundamentalists, fanatics. Members of Catholic Mass ast the time all over the country were told to recite a pledge to not see immoral Hollywood movies of they would be committing a sin that would cause them to lose their salvation. The Left and the Right are both the same - hysterical fanatics. But I gotta say the new politically correct production code is 100 times worse than the old one.
I don't agree. For one thing, the Code banned the depiction of cruelty to animals. For another, it proscribed such detailed commission of crimes that they could be imitated. In addition, the subtlety with which eroticism was conveyed was very intelligent. You knew EXACTLY what they meant, without any crudity. For example, in Call of the Wild, Clark Gable hands Loretta Young a dipper of water to drink from, after using it himself. He courteously turns it around so that she can drink from the untouched side. She deliberately & slowly turns it right back around, so that she can press her lips to the part he touched with his, all the while maintaining direct eye contact! Hot! 🔥
At that time, many states, cities and towns had their own local censor boards for films. The Code was implemented to stave off the threat of government censorship of movies at the national level. As for freedom of expression, it wasn't until 1952 that the Supreme Court ruled that motion pictures were a form of speech protected by the First Amendment. (See Burstyn v. Wilson)
Looks like to me Hollywood was about to get buck wild.
A real young looking James Cagney in those films
You think this is risque'? Try reading their biographies. James Stewart is a great start, or maybe George Hamilton, but Shelley Winters will shock you to your core.
I read her 2 bios. She certainly liked men and they liked her back (Burt Lancaster, Errol Flynn, and William Holden to name a few). Quite busy, she was ...
Different era. You'd likely feel different back then.
What movies were at 0:53 and 3:59?
At :53 it’s “Take a Chance” (1933), and at 3:59 it’s “Broadway Bad” (1933).
does she say “he’s a wonder at riding chicks” 2:32?
I’m pretty sure she says “he’s a wonder at writing checks”, as in he’s a sugar-daddy, but, I think from now on, I’m going to hear “riding chicks.”
Easy mistake to make... writing cheques can translate to riding chicks in some non verbal languages....
who was that actor in the strip poker clip?
Guy Kibbee and Vivienne Osborne.
4:21 Who's the girl and movie?
Muriel Evans - The Woman in His Life (1933)
Everything you see here wouldn't so much as raise an eyebrow by today's standards.
Yeah...not exactly "Body Heat" "9 1/2 Weeks" or "Dressed to Kill" is it??
@@drpoundsign Don't forget the all time classic with the late great Sylvia Kristel "Private Lessons".
Joanie was luscious
Yeah...everyone mostly popped cherries on the wedding night back then...except maybe for ho's.
You might be surprised