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- adjective Describing the output of the
Hollywood film industry prior to the introduction of the Hays Code
Etymologies
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Examples
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The chemistry between the two actors is mildly flirtatious (if I remember correctly, the pre-Code 1931 Falcon made it clearer that Effie and Sam had a thing going) and a joy to behold.
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No wonder that scene was used in the recent documentary on pre-Code women, although in this context one can appreciate it better.
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One of the thousand reasons to cherish Turner Classic Movies: they quietly played a trio of pre-Code Mae Clarke vehicles last Friday.
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One of the thousand reasons to cherish Turner Classic Movies: they quietly played a trio of pre-Code Mae Clarke vehicles last Friday.
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My other Ginger Rogers on TCM gleaning, this is a tasty and surprisingly cynical pre-Code potboiler starring Warren William as a smooth-talking industrialist (did he play anything else?).
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No wonder that scene was used in the recent documentary on pre-Code women, although in this context one can appreciate it better.
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(Abrams ComicArts), I uncover over two hundred pre-Code horror and crime comics of the 1950s.
Jim Trombetta: Halloween Books: 9 Comics Congress Banned In The '50s (PHOTOS) Jim Trombetta 2010
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But this pre-Code romp allows Lubitsch to add his light touch to a frothy, slightly risque tale of Miriam Hopkins refusing to choose between writer Frederick March and painter Gary Cooper.
Michael Giltz: DVD: Woody Allen Back On Top, Ready For Oscar Love Michael Giltz 2011
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(Abrams ComicArts), I uncover over two hundred pre-Code horror and crime comics of the 1950s.
Halloween Books: 9 Comics Congress Banned In The '50s (PHOTOS) Jim Trombetta 2010
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My other Ginger Rogers on TCM gleaning, this is a tasty and surprisingly cynical pre-Code potboiler starring Warren William as a smooth-talking industrialist (did he play anything else?).
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