Forbidden Hollywood Collection. Volume 1

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Call Number: DVD Drama Forbidden
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Collective title from container.
Originally released as motion pictures between 1931-1933.
Red-headed woman from the book by Katharine Brush ; Waterloo Bridge from the stage play by Robert E. Sherwood.
Container and disc labels list disc 1 as Red-headed woman and Waterloo Bridge, and disc 2 as Baby face. Films are reversed on actual discs.
Some production credits taken from other sources.
Special features: new introduction by Robert Osborne ; 'Baby Face' theatrical trailer.
Disc one. Baby face [prerelease version] / Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. & the Vitaphone Corp. present ; directed by Alfred E. Green ; screen play by Gene Markey & Kathryn Scola ; story by Mark Canfield ; [produced by William LeBaron, Raymond Griffith] (1933, 76 min) ; Baby face [original theatrical release] / Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. & the Vitaphone Corp. present ; directed by Alfred E. Green ; screen play by Gene Markey & Kathryn Scola ; story by Mark Canfield (1933, 72 min) -- Disc two. Red-headed woman / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents ; directed by Jack Conway ; from the book by Katharine Brush ; screen play by Anita Loos ; [produced by Albert Lewin, Irving Thalberg ; additional writing by F. Scott Fitzgerald] (1932, 79 min.) -- Waterloo bridge / Carl Laemmle presents ; produced by Carl Laemmle, Jr. ; Universal Pictures Corp. ; from the stage play by Robert E. Sherwood ; adaptation and added dialogue, Benn Levy ; screen play, Tom Reed ; directed by James Whale (1931, 81 min.).
Disc 1. Baby face: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Donald Cook, Alphonse Ethier, Henry Kolker, Theresa Harris, Margaret Lindsay.
Disc 2. Red-headed woman: Jean Harlow, Chester Morris, Lewis Stone, Leila Hyams, Una Merkel. Waterloo Bridge: Mae Clarke, Douglass Montgomery, Kent Douglass [Douglass Montgomery], Doris Lloyd, Bette Davis, Enid Bennett.
In the early 1930's, before Hollywood began enforcing a self-imposed Production Code, many films allowed for extraordinary frankness including nudity, adultery and prostitution. In this restored and remastered three-movie collection, three daring young actresses are featured in racy, riveting star vehicles. In this restored and remastered three-movie collection, three daring young actresses are featured in racy, riveting star vehicles. Jean Harlow is a red-headed secretary who hooks the company's married boss, while carrying on with chauffeur Charles Boyer. A young soldier is forced to give up Mae Clarke when his well-to-do family learns she's a prostitute, in Waterloo Bridge. Finally baby-faced Barbara Stanwyck sleeps her way up the corporate ladder in a New York bank, not caring who gets hurt.
DVD; mono.
Contents: Red-headed woman. -- Waterloo Bridge.

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