1. Red-Headed Woman
1932
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While other films tiptoed around sex or tried to disguise sex talk with euphemistic dialogue, Jack Conway’s Red-Headed Woman is all about sex and is surprisingly frank in its portrayal of a woman who uses sex and her good looks in order to get what she wants. As a result, Jean Harlow’s Lil Andrews breaks up a marriage, engages in multiple instances of casual sex, and even tries to kill one of her own two-timing lovers.
Unlike other Pre-Code films which sought to punish “fallen women” for their indiscretions, Red-Headed Woman, which was scripted by both F. Scott Fitzgerald and Anita Loos, the author of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, ends with an unrepentant Lil riding off in a limousine. In this way, Lil is more comparable to the era’s cinematic gangsters, who, like Lil, justify their amoral actions by seeing them as the only way to escape a lifetime confined in a low socioeconomic status.
As would be expected, Hollywood censors were less than enthusiastic aboutRed-Headed Woman. The film, which contains a brief nude scene, underwent17 different cuts before it could be fully released in the United States. Just two years later, the new, more stringent Hays Code saw to it that a film likeRed-Headed Woman couldn’t even be made in the first place.
–Benjamin Welton
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