Mexicali Rose (1929 film)
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Mexicali Rose is a 1929 American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by Erle C. Kenton, and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Sam Hardy. A silent and sound version are preserved at the Library of Congre
Lobby card. Sam Hardy and Barbara Stanwyck.
Pre-Code Hollywood
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Pre-Code Hollywood was an era in the American film industry that occurred between the widespread adoption of sound in film in the late 1920s and the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code c
Mexicali Rose (1929 film)
…Mexicali Rose (also known as The Girl from Mexico) is a 1929 American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by Erle C. Kenton, and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Sam Hardy. A silent and sound version are preserved at the Library…
In this 1931 publicity photo, Dorothy Mackaill plays a secretary-turned-prostitute in Safe in Hell, a pre-Code Warner Bros. Pictures film.
Pre-Code films such as The Public Enemy (1931) were able to feature criminal, anti-hero protagonists.
Will H. Hays was recruited by the studios in 1922 to help clean up their "Sin City" image after a series of scandals, especially the Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle manslaughter trial.
This 1932 promotional photo of Joan Blondell was later banned under the then-unenforceable Motion Picture Production Code.