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Summary:

Contains 6 racy and risque films from the era before the Censorship Code toned down Hollywood films.

Table of Contents:

• Blessed event (1932) / Warner Bros. Pictures & the Vitaphone Corp. ; produced by Ray Griffith ; directed by Roy del Ruth ; screenplay by Howard Green ; cast: Lee Tracy, Mary Brian, Dick Powell, Allen Jenkins, Ruth Donnelly, Emma Dunn, Edwin Maxwell, Ned Sparks ; director of photography: Sol Polito; based on the play Blessed event by Manuel Seff & Forrest Wilson
• Skyscraper souls (1932) / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; a Cosmopolitan production ; directed by Edgar Selwyn ; written by C.G. Sullivan, Elmer Harris ; cast: Warren William, Maureen O'Sullivan, Gregory Ratoff, Anita Page, Verree Teasdale, Norma Foster, George Barbier ; based on: Skyscraper / Faith Baldwin
• Three on a match (1932) / First National Vitaphone Pictures ; directed by Mervyn LeRoy ; Bette Davis, Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak, Warren William
• Employees' entrance (1933) / First National Pictures, The Vitaphone Corp. ; directed by Roy Del Ruth ; written by Robert Presnell ; cast: Warren William, Loretta Young, Wallace Ford, Alice White ; based on the play by David Boehm
• Female (1933) / First National Pictures ; directed by Michael Curtiz ; screenplay by Gene Markey & Kathryn Scola ; cast: Ruth Chatterton, George Brent, Lois Wilson, Johnny Mack Brown, Ruth Donnelly, Ferdinand Gottschalk ; photography: Sid Hickox ; art director: Jack Okey ; editor, Jack Killifer ; music: Vitaphone Orchestra
• Ladies they talk about (1933) / Warner Bros. Pictures ; Vitaphone Corp. ; directed by Howard Bretherton and William Keighley ; screenplay, Brown Holmes, William McGrath, Sidney Sutherland ; cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Lyle Talbot, Dorothy Burgess, Lilliam Roth, Preston S. Foster ; photography, John Seitz ; based on the play, Women in prison by Darothy Mackaye.

Contributors:

Del Ruth, Roy, 1893-1961

Selwyn, Edgar, 1875-1944

LeRoy, Mervyn, 1900-1987

Curtiz, Michael, 1886-1962

Bretherton, Howard, 1890-1969

Keighley, William, 1889-1984

MGM/UA Home Video (Firm)

Turner Home Entertainment (Firm)

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Works:

Blessed event

Skyscraper souls

Three on a match

Employees' entrance

Female

Ladies they talk about

Subjects:

Man-woman relationships — Drama

Man-woman relationships

Genres:

Feature films

Drama

System Details:

LaserDisc, Extended play, chapter search. Digital video transfer.

General Notes:

Originally released as motion pictures from 1932-1933.

Audience:

Not rated.

Physical Description:

4 videodiscs (469 min.) : sound, black and white ; 12 in.

Physical Characteristics:

plastic; metal; monochrome

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical; mono

Video Characteristics:

laser optical

Digital Characteristics:

video file

Call Numbers:

LD 562

ISBNs:

0792820487

Other Standard Numbers:

Universal Product Code: 027616450968
Publisher Number, MGM/UA Home Video: ML104509

OCLC Numbers:

29825222