Film Series: Images of Women in Film Pre- & Post-Code

The Women (with Joan Crawford) Joan Crawford and an all-star cast in a study of the lives and romantic entanglements of various interconnected women. We will see how images of women changed to meet the restrictions of what the Code… Read More

Film Series: Images of Women in Film Pre- & Post-Code

Of Human Bondage (with Bette Davis) A young man finds himself attracted to a cold and unfeeling waitress who may ultimately destroy them both. Bette Davis shocked audiences as well as critics with her raw performance as a… Read More

Film Series: Images of Women in Film Pre- & Post-Code

Dinner at Eight (with Jean Harlow) A high-society dinner party masks a hotbed of scandal and intrigue. A very funny look at the “upper crust” of the times. (1933, 110 min.) Images of Women in Film Pre- & Post-Code… Read More

Film Series: Images of Women in Film Pre- & Post-Code

Midnight Mary (with Loretta Young) This crisply told story about Mary–an abused orphan who sinks into a life of crime–is told through flashback as she awaits the verdict of her murder trial.  (1933, 74 min.) Images of Women in… Read More

Film Series: Images of Women in Film Pre- & Post-Code

Baby Face (with Barbara Stanwyck) A young woman, sexually exploited all her life, decides to turn the tables and exploit the hapless men at a big city bank – by gleefully sleeping her way to the top. (1933, 71… Read More

Film Series: Images of Women in Film Pre- & Post-Code

The Divorcee (with Norma Shearer) When a woman discovers that her husband has been unfaithful to her, she decides to respond to his infidelities in kind. (1930, 84 min.) Images of Women in Film Pre- & Post-Code with Michelle… Read More