Forbidden Hollywood collection. Volume two [videorecording].
Material type: FilmPublisher number: 1000018916 | Warner Home VideoLanguage: English Summary language: English, French Series: Turner classic movies. TCM archivesPublication details: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, 2008.Description: 3 videodiscs (370 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 inSubject(s): Genre/Form:Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult DVD | Dr. James Carlson Library | DVD | DRAMA Forbidde | Available | 33111005851775 |
Features: "Thou shalt not : sex, sin, and censorship in pre-code Hollywood" documentary, commentaries on The divorcee and Night nurse by film historians Jeffrey Vance and Tony Maietta, theatrical trailers for Female, Night nurse, and Three on a match.
Originally released as motion pictures from 1930-1933.
The divorcee based on the novel "Ex-wife" by Ursula Parrott; A free soul based on the novel by Adela Rogers St. Johns; Night nurse based on the novel by Dora Macy.
The divorcee (1930, 82 min.) / directed by Robert Z. Leonard -- A free soul (1931, 93 min.) / directed by Clarence Brown -- Three on a match (1932, 63 min.) / directed by Mervyn LeRoy -- Female (1933, 60 min.) / directed by Michael Curtiz -- Night nurse (1931, 72 min.) / directed by William A. Wellman.
The divorcee: Norma Shearer, Chester Morris; A free soul: Norma Shearer, Lionel Barrymore, Clark Gable; Three on a match: Bette Davis, Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak; Female: Ruth Chatterton, George Brent ; Night nurse: Barbara Stanwyck, Clark Gable.
A woman uncovers her husband's infidelities and then decides to return the favor tryst by tryst; a lawyer defends a gangster client and discovers his daughter has fallen in love with the gangster; three childhood friends reunite ten years after high school; a woman in charge of her company engages the men who work under her as she wants until she meets her male counterpart; a pediatric nurse uncovers a plot to starve her two young patients to death.
MPAA rating: Not rated.
DVD, Dolby digital mono.
For private home use only.
Closed-captioned.
In English with optional English or French subtitles.