Despite only lasting four short years from 1930 to 1934, the pre-code era of Hollywood’s Golden Age produced films that pushed the boundaries of cinema and storytelling, even by today’s standards.

“Forbidden Hollywood,” Warner Archive’s made-to-order DVD series featuring Pre-Code films, sounds like good, clean – well, dirty – fun. Pre-Code films, made from the late ’20s until 1934, when the ...

Complicated Women: Documentary. Narrated by Jane Fonda. 5 and 7:30 p.m. Tuesday on Turner Classic Movies. Imagine what today's Hollywood actresses would give for a part as juicy as Frances Dee's in ...

WHAT would you rather have -- morality or money? In Hollywood, at least in the desperate years between 1930 and 1933, the answer came wrapped in a string of sexually provocative and graphically ...

Universal has come out with a six-movie pre-Code set, and for those who care about this sort of thing, it's a very big deal. Actually, even if you're one of those people who don't care about this sort ...

It’s only seven little letters, with a hyphen thrown in just for the heck of it, but to people in the know, the phrase “pre-Code” signifies cinematic buried treasure of the most satisfying kind.

"That was the film that brought Mae West to the movies in a big way," said William Patrick Day, a professor of cinema studies and English at Oberlin College. "She had been a vaudeville and Broadway ...

About 20 years ago I was in a kind of partnership with another film historian who told me that, no, there wasn’t a market for a book on pre-code movies. I can only wonder what he thinks today after ...

In keeping up with the pre-code films exploration, I decided to sit down with Danny Reid at the Turner Classic Movies Film Festival in Hollywood California. Danny runs Pre-Code.com, a website ...

Best-selling author Mark A. Vieira and film historian Tiffany Brannan give a free one-hour PowerPoint presentation on the pre-code era of 1930 to 1934 when Hollywood ignored the lax production code, ...