The Love Goddesses

The Love Goddesses

87 mins | Documentary | March 3, 1965

This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the silver screen. It shows how the movie industry changed its depiction of sex and actresses' portrayal of sex from the silent movie era to the present. Classic scenes are shown from the silent movie 'True Heart Susie,' starring Lillian Gish, to 'Love Me Tonight' (1932), blending sex and sophistication, starring Jeanette MacDonald (pre-Nelson Eddy), and to Elizabeth Taylor in 'A Place in the Sun' (1951), plus much , much more.

The Love Goddesses

87 mins | Documentary | March 3, 1965

The Love Goddesses
This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the silver screen. It shows how the movie industry changed its depiction of sex and actresses' portrayal of sex from the silent movie era to the present. Classic scenes are shown from the silent movie 'True Heart Susie,' starring Lillian Gish, to 'Love Me Tonight' (1932), blending sex and sophistication, starring Jeanette MacDonald (pre-Nelson Eddy), and to Elizabeth Taylor in 'A Place in the Sun' (1951), plus much , much more.
IMDb rating 6.9
Producers Paramount, Walter Reade
Original title The Love Goddesses
Directors Saul J. Turell
Writers Saul J. Turell, Graeme Ferguson

Cast

Carl King

as Narrator (voice)

Agnes Ayres

as (archive footage)

Theda Bara

as (archive footage)

Brigitte Bardot

as (archive footage)

Richard Barthelmess

as (archive footage)

Ingrid Bergman

as (archive footage)

Clara Bow

as (archive footage)

Clive Brook

as (archive footage)

Louise Brooks

as (archive footage)

Horst Buchholz

as (archive footage)

Maurice Chevalier

as (archive footage)

Montgomery Clift

as (archive footage)

Claudette Colbert

as (archive footage)

Gary Cooper

as (archive footage)

Joan Crawford

as (archive footage)

Marion Davies

as (archive footage)

Bette Davis

as (archive footage)

Lya De Putti

as (archive footage)

Marlene Dietrich

as (archive footage)

Anita Ekberg

as (archive footage)

Norman Foster

as (archive footage)

Clark Gable

as (archive footage)

Greta Garbo

as (archive footage)

Ava Gardner

as (archive footage)

John Gilbert

as (archive footage)

Lillian Gish

as (archive footage)

Louise Glaum

as (archive footage)

Betty Grable

as (archive footage)

Cary Grant

as (archive footage)

Jean Harlow

as (archive footage)

Laurence Harvey

as (archive footage)

Sessue Hayakawa

as (archive footage)

Rita Hayworth

as (archive footage)

Brigitte Helm

as (archive footage)

Audrey Hepburn

as (archive footage)

Emil Jannings

as (archive footage)

Ruby Keeler

as (archive footage)

Annette Kellerman

as (archive footage)

Hedy Lamarr

as (archive footage)

Dorothy Lamour

as (archive footage)

Gina Lollobrigida

as (archive footage)

Carole Lombard

as (archive footage)

Sophia Loren

as (archive footage)

Myrna Loy

as (archive footage)

Jeanette MacDonald

as (archive footage)

Jayne Mansfield

as (archive footage)

Mae Marsh

as (archive footage)

Herbert Marshall

as (archive footage)

Adolphe Menjou

as (archive footage)

Ray Milland

as (archive footage)

Hayley Mills

as (archive footage)

Marilyn Monroe

as (archive footage)

Mae Murray

as (archive footage)

Nita Naldi

as (archive footage)

Pola Negri

as (archive footage)

Gregory Peck

as (archive footage)

Dick Powell

as (archive footage)

Esther Ralston

as (archive footage)

Ginger Rogers

as (archive footage)

Heather Sears

as (archive footage)

Simone Signoret

as (archive footage)

Barbara Stanwyck

as (archive footage)

Gloria Swanson

as (archive footage)

Sylvia Syms

as (archive footage)

Elizabeth Taylor

as (archive footage)

Shirley Temple

as (archive footage)

Gene Tierney

as (archive footage)

Lana Turner

as (archive footage)

Rudolph Valentino

as (archive footage)

Fannie Ward

as (archive footage)

Mae West

as (archive footage)

Henry Wilcoxon

as (archive footage)