Complicated Women

Complicated Women

55 mins | Documentary, TV Movie | May 6, 2003

A look at actresses who starred in films with thought-provoking subjects made between 1930 and July 1934, before the Hollywood Production Code —the infamous Hays Code— was enforced.

Complicated Women

55 mins | Documentary, TV Movie | May 6, 2003

Complicated Women
A look at actresses who starred in films with thought-provoking subjects made between 1930 and July 1934, before the Hollywood Production Code —the infamous Hays Code— was enforced.
IMDb rating 7.7
Producers Turner Classic Movies, Timeline Films
Original title Complicated Women
Directors Hugh Munro Neely
Writers Andie Hicks, Hugh Munro Neely, Mick LaSalle

Cast

Jane Fonda

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Frances Dee

as Self - Interviewee

Karen Morley

as Self - Interviewee

Kitty Carlisle

as Self - Interviewee

Mae Madison

as Self - Interviewee

Mark Vieira

as Self - Interviewee

Mick LaSalle

as Self - Interviewee

Molly Haskell

as Self - Interviewee

Barbara Stanwyck

as Self (archive footage)

Bette Davis

as Self (archive footage)

C. Aubrey Smith

as Self (archive footage)

Chester Morris

as Self (archive footage)

Clark Gable

as Self (archive footage)

Claudette Colbert

as Self (archive footage)

Dolores del Río

as Self (archive footage)

Fred Astaire

as Self (archive footage)

Fredric March

as Self (archive footage)

Gene Raymond

as Self (archive footage)

Ginger Rogers

as Self (archive footage)

Greta Garbo

as Self (archive footage)

Helen Twelvetrees

as Self (archive footage)

Irving Thalberg

as Self (archive footage)

James Cagney

as Self (archive footage)

Jean Harlow

as Self (archive footage)

Joan Blondell

as Self (archive footage)

Joan Crawford

as Self (archive footage)

John Gilbert

as Self (archive footage)

Johnny Weissmüller

as Self (archive footage)

Katharine Hepburn

as Self (archive footage)

Kay Francis

as Self (archive footage)

Leslie Howard

as Self (archive footage)

Lewis Stone

as Self (archive footage)

Loretta Young

as Self (archive footage)

Norma Shearer

as Self (archive footage)

Mae West

as Self (archive footage)

Marlene Dietrich

as Self (archive footage)

Maureen O'Sullivan

as Self (archive footage)

Miriam Hopkins

as Self (archive footage)

Myrna Loy

as Self (archive footage)

Ricardo Cortez

as Self (archive footage)

Robert Montgomery

as Self (archive footage)

Ruth Chatterton

as Self (archive footage)

Tallulah Bankhead

as Self (archive footage)

William H. Hays

as Self (archive footage)

Gilbert Roland

as Self (archive footage)

Lee Phelps

as Self (archive footage)

Nat Pendleton

as Self (archive footage)

Warner Oland

as Self (archive footage)

Maurice Murphy

as Self (archive footage)

Herbert Marshall

as Self (archive footage)

George F. Marion

as Self (archive footage)

Aline MacMahon

as Self (archive footage)

Dorothy Mackaill

as Self (archive footage)

Paul Lukas

as Self (archive footage)

Jack La Rue

as Self (archive footage)

Allen Jenkins

as Self (archive footage)

Olin Howland

as Self (archive footage)

Jean Hersholt

as Self (archive footage)

Ann Harding

as Self (archive footage)

Cary Grant

as Self (archive footage)

William Gargan

as Self (archive footage)

Douglass Dumbrille

as Self (archive footage)

Cecil Cunningham

as Self (archive footage)

Gary Cooper

as Self (archive footage)

Maurice Chevalier

as Self (archive footage)

Virginia Bruce

as Self (archive footage)

Charles Bickford

as Self (archive footage)

Robert Barrat

as Self (archive footage)

John Barrymore

as Self (archive footage)

Lionel Barrymore

as Self (archive footage)

Wallace Beery

as Self (archive footage)