SP 471 (M4 - Thursday Class) Week 6

8/3/2019 SP 471 (M4 - Thursday Class) Week 6

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The 1930s

Besides name

authors like F. Scott

Fitzgerald & William

Faulkner, Hollywood

imported Broadway

Stars

Eddie Cantor, Fanny Brice,

The Marx Brothers, Mae West


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The 1930s

The Production Code

Hays office formed in 1922as a result of a series of

scandals for self-regulation(see Fatty Arbuckle)

Published in 1930, adoptedfully in 1934

"if motion pictures presentstories that will affect livesfor the better, they canbecome the most powerfulforce for the improvement

of mankind" The Hays Code

William Hays
http://www.artsreformation.com/a001/hays-code.htmlhttp://www.artsreformation.com/a001/hays-code.html


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The 1930s

Profits hit hard during theDepression

Needed to lure back their

audience Production Code created by

producers to please theCatholic Church andvarious other sociallyconservative groups

No pictures in theatres thathad not been passed by theCode administration

Phased out in 1968Betty Boop & Laughing Gas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9Tb4TMibk0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9Tb4TMibk0


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The 1930s

Baby Face & Love Me Tonight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9Tb4TMibk0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9Tb4TMibk0


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The 1930s

General Principles1. No picture shall be produced that

will lower the moral standards of

those who see it. Hence thesympathy of the audience shouldnever be thrown to the side ofcrime, wrongdoing, evil or sin.

2. Correct standards of life, subjectonly to the requirements of

drama and entertainment, shallbe presented.

3. Law, natural or human, shall notbe ridiculed, nor shall sympathybe created for its violation.
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Excessive violence

Sex - even for marriedcouples

Words such as hell,sex, and damn

Gave rise to stylizedgenres which were less

threatening than gangstermovies and sex romps

Self-regulation preferred tothat of the government
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The 1930s

Some things made it

through

Bringing up Baby & The Gangs All Here
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The 1930s

Some did not

Casablanca & I Love Lucy
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The 1930s

Some careers did

not survive the Code

Mae West

She Done Him Wrong

Why dont you come up & see me

Sometime? Im home every evening.
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The 1930s

Films became more

conservative

Moral messages Comedies

Unite and not divide
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The 1930s

Gangster Scarface, d. Howard

Hawks

Trouble with censors

Released withoutapproval but withsubtitle Shame of a

Nation and writtenprologue
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The 1930s

Musicals

Busby Berkley

Fred Astaire
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The 1930s

Musicals

Busby Berkley

Fred Astaire
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The 1930s

Comedy

Screwball

Surreal

My Man Godfrey & Monkey Business
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The 1930s

The Filmmakers

Ernst Lubitsch

William Wyler Howard Hawks

John Ford

Frank Capra

Michael Curtiz

Saratoga
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The 1930s

Howard Hawks

- Rapid-fire, overlapping dialogue

- Used first string writers

-Keen eye for talent suchas Paul Muni, Carole

Lombard, Lauren Bacall

and Montgomery Clift

- Most versatile - crossed

genres
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The 1930s

The Big Sleep

His Girl Friday Red River

Bringing Up Baby


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The 1930s

William Wyler

Long takes

Deep focus

Elicited great

performances through a

massive amount of takes

- 40 Take Wyler

Actors seldom worked

with him again
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The 1930s

The LetterDead End

JezebelWuthering Heights


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The 1930s

Frank Capra Started in silent

comedies as a gag writer

Successes for HarryCohn at Columbiamaking the PovertyRow studio into a player

Most successful directorof the 1930s

Supreme craftsman


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The 1930s

Its a Wonderful LifeMr. Smith Goes to Washington

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town It Happened One Night


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The 1930s

John Ford Began as an actor - he

was one of the ridingKlansmen in Birth of a

Nation Hit his stride in the 1930s

with The Informer

Worked often with JohnWayne whom he called a

big dummy Responsible for some ofthe most enduring imageryin American film


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The 1930s

The Informer

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon Fort Apache

They Were Expendable


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The 1930s

Michael Curtiz 1886-1972

Hungarian who came toHollywood in 1926 andbecame a staple in the

Studio System Films include

Casablanca

The Adventures of RobinHood

Captain Blood Mildred Pierce

White Christmas

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Angels with Dirty Faces

King Creole


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The 1930s

Angels with Dirty Faces, 1938 James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Pat

OBrien & Ann Sheridan & The Deadend Kids

Banned in Denmark, China, Poland,Finland, and parts of Canada andSwitzerland

Cagney drew on his memories ofgrowing up in New York's Hell's Kitchen

The Dead End Kids terrorized the setthrowing actors off with ad-libbing andstole Humphrey Bogarts pants, but thefirst time Leo Gorcey pulled an ad-libon Cagney, he stiff-armed the youngactor and from then on, the gang

behaved.


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The 1930s

James Cagney, 1889-1986


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The 1930s Quintessential

tough guy but also anaccomplished singer &dancer

Made 9 films with PatOBrien

Retired in 1961 did 2more films in the 80s

Films include: The Public Enemy, Each

Dawn I Die, White Heat,The Roaring Twenties,Yankee Doodle Dandy,Mister Roberts, One,Two, Three

White Heat
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The 1930s Humphrey Bogart, 1899-

1957 Began by playing

gangsters & psychopaths

but moved into playingtough, conflicted, cynicalleading men with a nobleside

Married to Lauren Bacallafter they met on set

when she was 19 & hewas 45. He became afather at 49.

Oscar forThe AfricanQueen, 1952

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