Just Saw Complicated Women Today...

I just viewed the documentary, "Complicated Women," from 2003 this morning on TCM with Jane Fonda narrating. Very interesting look at how actresses like Barbara Stanwyck, Maureen O'Sullavan, Joan Blondell, Norma Shearer, and others between 1929 and 1934, when the Production Code was enforced in Hollywood, were entertaining movie goers of the day with what was considered provacative at the time. I never thought for many years that the grandmothers/great grandmothers of the current generation were exposed to semi/actual nudity in their day. I saw Maureen O'Sullavan's skinny dipping scene from "Tarzan and His Mate," which I had seen previously, but not that one scene, because it was edited out of the movie not long afterwards, since the film was banned in some states. They didn't show, however, a similar scene from "Bird of Paradise," where Dolores Del Rio's Polynesian girl swam nude with Joel McCrae. I happen to have on DVD "Night Nurse," in which Barbara Stanwyck and Joan Blondell would dress and undress on camera. I could go on about this, but it was clear that most actresses of the day did something suggestive, and, yet, this is the very thing that sells today's films, but to greater extremes. I would like to see if I can get the DVD version of this program. Must see viewing.