The title alone suggests something lurid and pulpy. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the original screenplay, but producers didn’t find it provocative enough and gave the gig to Anita Loos for a rewrite. The film was censored and banned in certain countries, but it became a smash hit. The 1932 Jack Conway picture was full of overt female sexuality, a touch of nudity, and a sadistic scene between Harlow and Chester Morris (above). Seduction, blackmail, murder - Jean Harlow really knew how to have a good time in Red-Headed Woman. Nineteen-thirties kink?Ĭlara Bow in her first talkie plays a brazen party girl breaking hearts at her college, but she winds up having eyes for her professor.
We’ve highlighted ten of the naughtiest.Ī Busby Berkeley extravaganza that features this bawdy little song and dance number about “getting it in the open air.” Why yes, that is Dick Powell opening Ruby Keeler’s metal corset with a can opener. Hollywood’s bawdy pre-code period featured lawbreakers, heartbreakers, and shocking tales of modern morals aplenty.
Between the advent of sound in the late 1920s and the enforcement of the restrictive Hays Code in 1934, filmmakers got away with making movies that introduced aggressive sexuality and untraditional relationships. Some of the raciest movies in Hollywood were made well before the Sharon Stone leg crossover and Maggie Gyllenhaal’s kinky tenure as a secretary.
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