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Barbara Stanwyck | Lora Hart | |
Bette Davis | ||
Clark Gable | Nick, the Chauffeur | |
Norma Shearer | ||
Ruth Chatterton | ||
Lionel Barrymore | ||
Ben Lyon | Mortie | |
Joan Blondell | B. Maloney | |
Blanche Friderici | Mrs. Maxwell, the Housekeeper | |
Charlotte Merriam | Mrs. Ritchey | |
Charles Winninger | Dr. Arthur Bell | |
Edward J. Nugent | Eagan | |
Vera Lewis | Miss Dillon, Superintendent of Nurses | |
Ralf Harolde | Dr. Milton A. Ranger | |
Walter McGrail | Mack | |
Robert Allen | Party Guest | |
James Bradbury Jr. | Wounded Prisoner | |
Jim Farley | Policeman | |
Willie Fung | Hospital Patient | |
Valerie Spencer | Narrator |
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Producer | Steven Smith
George Feltenstein |
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Writer | Grace Perkins
Oliver H.P. Garrett Steven Smith |
Shearer. Davis. Chatterton. Stanwyck. The women of an uncensored film era! Illicit sex. Glorified vice. Crime that pays. "You can't do that" said the film industry's Production Code. But in the pre-Code era, Hollywood could - and did - with lots of classic style. On Disc 1 of this set of five pre-Code sizzlers, Norma Shearer is The Divorcee - her Best Actress Oscar-winning role - who believes sexual freedom is for women, too. And she's also A Free Soul who falls for gangster Clark Gable (and is defended in a murder trial by Best Actor Academy Award winner Lionel Barrymore). Disc 2 delivers platinum-haired Bette Davis in Three on a Match's searing tale of adultery and Ruth Chatterton as a tycoon who buys herself boy toys in Female. And on Disc 3, Barbara Stanwyck defies sinister Clark Gable to protect an endangered child in Night Nurse. |
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