Episode 11: SPECIAL - Sex In Monochrome

The Hollywood of the 30’s and 40’s is commonly known as The Golden Age of Hollywood, a time when foundations were built, techniques refined, and legends were born, but The Golden Age was built upon the bones of another generation; a liberal, free-spirited time when Hollywood creatively defied the censors, and let its imagination run free.

Sex was an integral part of film-making from the very beginning, appearing on film just a year after its inception, and remaining one of the most popular, and controversial subjects during the birth of cinema. 

In this special episode, we’ll take a look at some of the keystones of sex in cinema, the men and women who were the first sex symbols, and the tragic figures who were its first casualties. 

The sex. The lies. The films. The scandals. And the force that finally brought Hollywood to heel in the mid-thirties. 

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Films mentioned: 'Workers Leaving The Lumiere Factory in Lyon' (1895); 'Le Coucher De La Mariee' (1896); 'Bain de la Parisienne' (1897); 'La Puce' (1897); 'Apres la Bal' (1897); 'The Story of the Kelly Gang' (1906); 'A L'Ecu d'Or ou La Bonne Auberge' (1908); 'The Downward Path' (1900); 'The White Slave Traffic' (1910); 'The Last Victim of the White Slave Traffic' (1911); 'Dealer In Girls' (1912); 'Traffic in Souls' (1913); 'Damaged Goods' (1914); 'Child Bride' (1938); 'The Birth of a Nation' (1914); 'Inspiration' (1916); 'Purity' (1917); 'Hypocrites' (1915); 'A Free Ride' (1915); 'A Daughter of the Gods' (1916); 'Cleopatra' (1917); 'Anders Als Die Andern' (1919); 'Male and Female' (1919); 'Way Down East' (1920); 'The Queen Of Sheba' (1921); 'The Sheik' (1921); 'Manslaughter' (1922); 'The Ten Commandments' (1923); 'Ben-Hur' (1925); 'Flesh and the Devil' (1926); 'It' (1927); 'Wings' (1927); 'Hula' (1927); 'Our Dancing Daughters' (1928); 'A Girl In Every Port' (1928); 'Beggars Of Life' (1928); 'The Canary Murder Case' (1929); 'Pandora's Box' (1929); 'Diary of a Lost Girl' (1929); 'Overland Stage Raiders' (1938); 'The Jazz Singer' (1927); 'Hell's Angels' (1930); 'The Blue Angel' (1930); 'Morocco' (1930); 'Ingagi' (1930); 'The Divorcee' (1930); 'The Common Law' (1931); 'Dracula' (1931); 'A Free Soul' (1931); 'Illicit' (1931); 'Night Nurse' (1931); 'Madchen In Uniform' (1931); 'Mata Hari' (1931); 'The Public Enemy' (1931); 'Safe In Hell' (1931); 'Balinese Love' (1931); 'Tabu: A Story Of The South Seas' (1931); 'Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde' (1931); 'The Smiling Lieutenant' (1931); 'Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle' (1932); 'Polly Tix In Washington' (1932); 'Bird Of Paradise' (1932); 'Tarzan The Ape Man' (1932); 'The Sign Of The Cross' (1932); 'Call Her Savage' (1932); 'Red-Headed Woman' (1932); 'Trouble In Paradise' (1932); 'The Barbarian' (1933); 'Convention City' (1933); 'Gold Diggers of 1933' (1933); 'The Sin of Nora Moran' (1933); 'Queen Christina' (1933); 'Design For Living' (1933); 'The Story of Temple Drake' (1933); 'Ecstasy/Extase' (1933); 'Ladies They Talk About' (1933); 'Baby Face' (1933); 'Tarzan And His Mate' (1934)