The 'Code' Must Not Have Been In Place Yet

Take a look at the excellent song and dance number "You Bother Me An Awful Lot". The women are wearing very revealing outfits. Looks like the have nothing on underneath the faux shoulder furs. Their navels are clearly visible! Even as late as the mid 1960s, Barbara Eden was not allowed to show her navel in "I Dream Of Jeannie".

Ann Dvorak displays a flawless figure in that dance number. Her slender, lithe torso has no love handles. Not a bad singer either. I wonder why Ruby Keeler got more musicals than Dvorak? Dvorak was a better dancer, better singer and had a better figure than Keeler.

Toward the end of the movie, Dvorak gets shot twice at point blank range in a phone booth by her husband Brad Collins. It's a shocking scene, one which probably wouldn't have been filmed like that a year later.

The only restrictions imposed on the movie were those insisted upon by the FBI. Gangsters of the time used Thompson Submachine Guns and Browning Automatic Rifles which would have been common WWI war surplus items, not just handguns and lever action rifles.

Al Capone and 'Machine Gun Kelly' for example, used fully automatic weapons, not lever action rifles.