Instructor: Jennifer Garlen

Break the rules and trample convention with four iconic leading ladies in “Pre-Code” films from 1933. Made before Hays Code enforcement strictly limited what films could show, these movies feature women who defy the norms of their own eras. Mae West opens the series with She Done Him Wrong, also featuring a very young Cary Grant. Jean Harlow goes to prison for Clark Gable in Hold Your Man, while Barbara Stanwyck seduces every man she meets in Baby Face. We end with the great Greta Garbo playing the 17th century Swedish ruler in Queen Christina.