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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:22,042 --> 00:00:24,944 ♪♪ [Orchestra] 2 00:00:29,616 --> 00:00:32,586 ♪♪ [Continues] 3 00:01:05,185 --> 00:01:08,644 ♪♪ [Dramatic Swelling] 4 00:01:27,574 --> 00:01:29,475 [Man Narrating] In a changing world... 5 00:01:29,576 --> 00:01:31,943 one thing remains constant. 6 00:01:32,045 --> 00:01:36,039 But sometimes the manner in which it is presented differs... 7 00:01:37,084 --> 00:01:39,485 and the treatment of sex on the screen... 8 00:01:39,586 --> 00:01:44,524 has been a reflection of the customs, manners and morals of the times. 9 00:01:47,060 --> 00:01:49,052 The story of The Love Goddesses... 10 00:01:49,163 --> 00:01:53,066 is itself a history of sex in the movies. 11 00:01:53,167 --> 00:01:57,901 We begin with America still in the shadow of the Victorian era... 12 00:01:58,005 --> 00:02:01,032 and a movie heroine bound by the same conventions... 13 00:02:01,141 --> 00:02:03,110 as any young lady of society. 14 00:02:05,145 --> 00:02:09,446 In a film with the delightful title True Heart Susie... 15 00:02:09,550 --> 00:02:11,849 Lillian Gish expressed this Victorian innocence - 16 00:02:11,952 --> 00:02:15,753 a heroine who did not smoke, would not drink... 17 00:02:15,856 --> 00:02:19,258 and couldn't even admit she had ever heard about sex. 18 00:02:21,028 --> 00:02:24,863 But someone had to do what a good girl could not... 19 00:02:24,965 --> 00:02:27,161 and the vamp was created. 20 00:02:30,337 --> 00:02:31,999 She could smoke... 21 00:02:32,105 --> 00:02:34,233 she could drink... 22 00:02:34,341 --> 00:02:36,833 and she had heard about sex. 23 00:02:40,447 --> 00:02:43,975 The word "vamp" came from a poem by Kipling- 24 00:02:44,084 --> 00:02:46,212 "A Fool There Was." 25 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:51,384 In it, he portrayed the predatory, bloodsucking vampire as a woman... 26 00:02:52,526 --> 00:02:55,360 and the vamp of them all was Theda Bara... 27 00:02:55,462 --> 00:02:58,899 the first of a long line of champions... 28 00:02:58,999 --> 00:03:00,558 in the battle of the sexes. 29 00:03:01,969 --> 00:03:05,098 Invariably, the vamp's costumes were distinctive... 30 00:03:05,205 --> 00:03:11,145 suggesting creatures in whose grasp, or web, the victim was rendered helpless. 31 00:03:15,816 --> 00:03:20,754 Actually, sex in the movies had begun long before there were stars or plots... 32 00:03:20,854 --> 00:03:23,983 and the peep-show nature of the nickelodeon machines... 33 00:03:24,091 --> 00:03:27,084 added to the forbidden fruit flavor. 34 00:03:30,197 --> 00:03:32,428 The sensational Little Egypt. 35 00:03:33,834 --> 00:03:37,635 To us, perhaps, Little Egypt may not look so sexy... 36 00:03:37,738 --> 00:03:40,071 but in 1898... 37 00:03:40,173 --> 00:03:42,904 Mark Twain had a heart attack watching her. 38 00:03:45,779 --> 00:03:49,875 In 1916, David Wark Griffith... 39 00:03:49,983 --> 00:03:52,452 master of the motion picture during its formative years... 40 00:03:52,553 --> 00:03:56,854 produced Intolerance, one of the great spectacles of all time. 41 00:03:58,959 --> 00:04:02,589 Mr. Griffith's heroines were as pure as any... 42 00:04:02,696 --> 00:04:05,860 but he managed to get away with a remarkable amount of nudity... 43 00:04:05,966 --> 00:04:08,435 by using a number of titles... 44 00:04:08,535 --> 00:04:13,303 telling just what particular historical rites the girls were performing... 45 00:04:13,407 --> 00:04:18,710 and in which learned volumes the audience could further research the subject. 46 00:04:22,549 --> 00:04:27,385 In 1916, the public paid the astronomical price of two dollars... 47 00:04:27,487 --> 00:04:29,456 to see Intolerance. 48 00:04:30,691 --> 00:04:34,719 The other director who was to dominate the American screen for decades... 49 00:04:34,828 --> 00:04:37,491 was Cecil B. DeMille. 50 00:04:38,999 --> 00:04:43,164 DeMille made this picture, The Cheat, in 1915. 51 00:04:43,270 --> 00:04:48,402 It starred the screen's first Oriental villain, Sessue Hayakawa... 52 00:04:48,508 --> 00:04:51,672 who plays an enormously wealthy Burmese merchant... 53 00:04:51,778 --> 00:04:53,770 a collector of ivory. 54 00:05:00,887 --> 00:05:03,379 The heroine is Miss Fannie Ward. 55 00:05:04,424 --> 00:05:07,485 Miss Ward is a lady in desperate need of money... 56 00:05:07,594 --> 00:05:11,463 and, unwisely, she has borrowed from Mr. Hayakawa. 57 00:05:26,113 --> 00:05:29,743 When sex was encountered by a Victorian heroine... 58 00:05:29,850 --> 00:05:32,820 it was always the villain who threatened her. 59 00:05:42,229 --> 00:05:45,131 The use of violence in conjunction with sex... 60 00:05:45,232 --> 00:05:47,201 was rare in 19 15. 61 00:05:50,137 --> 00:05:54,700 But this theme is to appear again and again throughout the history of the movies... 62 00:05:54,808 --> 00:05:57,607 for motion picture audiences all over the world... 63 00:05:57,711 --> 00:06:02,376 were to get sexual excitement out of watching violence on the screen. 64 00:06:08,155 --> 00:06:13,059 Another major recurring theme in the history of sex is comedy... 65 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:17,291 for audiences often choose to laugh at a satire of the same violence... 66 00:06:17,397 --> 00:06:19,366 that excites them. 67 00:06:21,935 --> 00:06:24,837 This film, an early contemporary of the Keystone Kops... 68 00:06:24,938 --> 00:06:28,875 is Bertha, the Buttonhole-Maker. 69 00:06:46,393 --> 00:06:49,386 World War I shattered the Victorian age. 70 00:06:49,496 --> 00:06:53,058 Overnight, women's role in society changed. 71 00:06:53,166 --> 00:06:56,534 They got the vote, their clothing changed... 72 00:06:56,636 --> 00:06:58,366 their point of view changed. 73 00:06:58,472 --> 00:07:02,136 The result was an amazingly different American woman. 74 00:07:03,243 --> 00:07:05,940 But it was not until two years after the war... 75 00:07:06,046 --> 00:07:08,811 that the movies completely reflected this change. 76 00:07:09,983 --> 00:07:12,680 The catalyst was Valentino. 77 00:07:14,221 --> 00:07:17,419 The picture -The Sheik. 78 00:07:22,996 --> 00:07:26,023 It was a book every teenage girl in America was reading... 79 00:07:26,133 --> 00:07:28,034 behind closed doors... 80 00:07:28,135 --> 00:07:31,230 each secretly sharing the heroine's fascination... 81 00:07:31,338 --> 00:07:33,307 with the handsome hero. 82 00:07:34,407 --> 00:07:36,774 And that was the difference. 83 00:07:36,877 --> 00:07:40,279 The man who had kidnapped our heroine was not the villain... 84 00:07:40,380 --> 00:07:42,679 but, for the first time, the hero. 85 00:07:43,850 --> 00:07:46,649 And Valentino's answer to Agnes Ayres's question... 86 00:07:46,753 --> 00:07:48,745 "Why have you brought me here?" 87 00:07:48,855 --> 00:07:51,825 would change the American love goddess. 88 00:07:59,766 --> 00:08:03,567 For now, for the first time, the heroine did know. 89 00:08:04,638 --> 00:08:07,301 The result was to be Clara Bow... 90 00:08:07,407 --> 00:08:09,774 the culmination of the flapper heroine - 91 00:08:09,876 --> 00:08:13,313 a sexy little girl, a tease. 92 00:08:58,992 --> 00:09:01,985 Miss Bow's most famous picture was It. 93 00:09:02,095 --> 00:09:04,860 She plays a young girl working in a department store... 94 00:09:04,965 --> 00:09:08,299 who has a chance to go out with her handsome boss. 95 00:09:15,542 --> 00:09:19,309 At a time when the word "sex" was still considered racy... 96 00:09:19,412 --> 00:09:23,679 the word "it" was accepted as a substitute for sex appeal. 97 00:09:23,783 --> 00:09:25,911 "It" became a byword of the '20s... 98 00:09:26,019 --> 00:09:29,456 and Miss Bow, forever afterward, the "It Girl." 99 00:09:42,702 --> 00:09:45,695 Clara Bow was flaming youth in rebellion. 100 00:09:45,805 --> 00:09:50,505 She paraded a new worldly wisdom that sex somehow meant a good time. 101 00:09:57,083 --> 00:09:59,575 However, don't be misled. 102 00:09:59,686 --> 00:10:04,090 Miss Bow was but a first cousin to True Heart Susie. 103 00:10:04,190 --> 00:10:06,091 She too is a good girl. 104 00:10:06,192 --> 00:10:08,093 When they come home at night... 105 00:10:08,194 --> 00:10:12,632 although the boss is handsome, eligible, and they are thoroughly in love - 106 00:10:16,269 --> 00:10:20,969 There are only a few years between the end of World War I and Clara Bow... 107 00:10:21,074 --> 00:10:24,044 and yet what a wealth of sexual and moral changes... 108 00:10:24,144 --> 00:10:26,045 were compressed into those years. 109 00:10:27,147 --> 00:10:29,981 The vamp was to disappear. 110 00:10:30,083 --> 00:10:32,746 Nita Naldi in Blood and Sand... 111 00:10:32,852 --> 00:10:36,016 played one of the last of the great vamp roles. 112 00:10:36,122 --> 00:10:39,024 For now that the heroine had become aware of sex... 113 00:10:39,125 --> 00:10:41,151 the vamp was no longer needed... 114 00:10:41,261 --> 00:10:44,595 and shortly, though still in magnificent style... 115 00:10:44,698 --> 00:10:46,667 was to make her exit. 116 00:10:49,202 --> 00:10:52,434 More and more, European attitudes to sex... 117 00:10:52,539 --> 00:10:55,304 were reaching and reshaping America. 118 00:10:55,408 --> 00:10:57,434 In a small American town... 119 00:10:57,544 --> 00:11:02,710 a crusading district attorney zealously guards the public's morality. 120 00:11:02,816 --> 00:11:06,548 To him, any woman smoking a cigarette is sinful. 121 00:11:22,802 --> 00:11:25,670 The film is Woman of the World... 122 00:11:25,772 --> 00:11:28,241 and this is the Polish star Pola Negri... 123 00:11:28,341 --> 00:11:30,867 playing a countess who has come to America - 124 00:11:30,977 --> 00:11:34,243 a woman who knows about life and love... 125 00:11:34,347 --> 00:11:36,316 and is not afraid of either. 126 00:11:40,787 --> 00:11:44,053 But she is hounded by the puritans of the town... 127 00:11:44,157 --> 00:11:47,423 until finally, unable to stand the hypocrisy any longer... 128 00:11:47,527 --> 00:11:50,258 she defends herself. 129 00:12:00,540 --> 00:12:06,446 What Miss Negri does not know is that she has already changed the town. 130 00:12:06,546 --> 00:12:09,914 Of course, in reality it was America that was changing... 131 00:12:10,016 --> 00:12:13,680 and Miss Negri but a reflection of that change. 132 00:12:22,495 --> 00:12:24,464 The year is 1925. 133 00:12:25,498 --> 00:12:27,626 The '20s have started to roar. 134 00:12:27,734 --> 00:12:30,932 Inhibitions were cast aside. 135 00:12:32,572 --> 00:12:35,542 The demand was for something unusual... 136 00:12:36,342 --> 00:12:39,039 something exotic... 137 00:12:39,145 --> 00:12:43,082 something like the heroine of Sorrows of Satan... 138 00:12:43,983 --> 00:12:46,282 a legend of Faust and the devil. 139 00:13:00,333 --> 00:13:02,928 Faust is played by Ricardo Cortez... 140 00:13:03,036 --> 00:13:06,029 and Satan by Adolphe Menjou. 141 00:13:06,139 --> 00:13:11,442 The devil offers Faust the opportunity of getting whatever he desires in the world- 142 00:13:11,544 --> 00:13:14,446 wealth, power, prestige... 143 00:13:14,547 --> 00:13:16,516 and even a Marguerite. 144 00:13:31,931 --> 00:13:33,832 This is Lya De Putti... 145 00:13:33,933 --> 00:13:39,634 a Marguerite who is just a little different from the Marguerites we have known. 146 00:13:52,652 --> 00:13:55,816 Faust is smitten and gets his Marguerite... 147 00:13:55,922 --> 00:13:59,586 but her ambitions reach far beyond Faust. 148 00:14:08,601 --> 00:14:10,502 D. W. Griffith... 149 00:14:10,603 --> 00:14:14,096 had his own personal view of the battle of the sexes. 150 00:14:14,207 --> 00:14:17,735 He had fought it many times and lost. 151 00:14:17,844 --> 00:14:19,813 By matching Marguerite against the devil... 152 00:14:19,913 --> 00:14:22,473 he evened up the score. 153 00:14:22,582 --> 00:14:26,781 It was the only sure way Griffith knew of having the woman lose. 154 00:14:36,996 --> 00:14:38,897 The change that had taken place... 155 00:14:38,998 --> 00:14:41,695 can be seen by comparing Miss Gloria Swanson - 156 00:14:41,801 --> 00:14:45,101 just about the period of World War I - 157 00:14:49,275 --> 00:14:53,713 with Miss Gloria Swanson eight years after the war. 158 00:14:53,813 --> 00:14:57,716 The same Miss Swanson, but quite a different love goddess. 159 00:15:02,222 --> 00:15:05,090 The scene is from The Loves of Sunya... 160 00:15:05,191 --> 00:15:07,524 a Swanson production of 1926. 161 00:15:24,344 --> 00:15:27,940 Cecil B. DeMille compared the excesses of the '20s... 162 00:15:28,047 --> 00:15:29,948 with the orgies of ancient Rome... 163 00:15:30,049 --> 00:15:32,644 as the subject of his film Manslaughter. 164 00:15:36,923 --> 00:15:42,226 He solemnly warned of the consequences of this generation's behavior. 165 00:15:45,565 --> 00:15:47,830 Notice the two women on the right. 166 00:15:47,934 --> 00:15:51,336 But moralist or not, DeMille was a showman... 167 00:15:51,437 --> 00:15:56,501 and never one to keep an audience in the dark about the evils he was lamenting. 168 00:15:58,778 --> 00:16:02,374 He introduced the bathtub scene to movies with Gloria Swanson... 169 00:16:02,482 --> 00:16:04,508 in Male and Female... 170 00:16:04,617 --> 00:16:09,317 and the nude bathing scene became a trademark of the '20s. 171 00:16:13,626 --> 00:16:15,595 Clara Bow. 172 00:16:15,695 --> 00:16:19,530 Every heroine very much in her own style. 173 00:16:29,242 --> 00:16:32,041 Esther Ralston. 174 00:16:35,882 --> 00:16:38,545 In his epic of the French Revolution, Orphans of the Storm... 175 00:16:38,651 --> 00:16:42,247 D. W. Griffith filled the bathtub with wine... 176 00:16:43,423 --> 00:16:46,791 as well as some left over young ladies from Intolerance. 177 00:16:52,098 --> 00:16:56,058 Wine for Griffith; milk for DeMille. 178 00:16:56,169 --> 00:16:59,662 The most famous movie bath of them all was to be Claudette Colbert's... 179 00:16:59,772 --> 00:17:01,741 in The Sign of the Cross. 180 00:17:22,328 --> 00:17:24,229 Even in the late '20s... 181 00:17:24,330 --> 00:17:27,789 standards in Europe continued to be different from those in the United States... 182 00:17:27,900 --> 00:17:30,597 with its basically puritan background. 183 00:17:33,873 --> 00:17:36,399 This is Fritz Lang's Spies... 184 00:17:36,509 --> 00:17:39,001 produced in Germany in 1927. 185 00:17:42,382 --> 00:17:47,013 These charming ladies appeared in the American film Ben-Hur... 186 00:17:47,120 --> 00:17:51,854 but an export version that was never shown in the United States. 187 00:17:54,026 --> 00:17:57,394 The same scene was even shot two different ways. 188 00:17:57,497 --> 00:18:00,467 This is from the Faust legend you have just seen. 189 00:18:00,566 --> 00:18:04,196 Lya De Putti played the European version like this... 190 00:18:04,303 --> 00:18:07,364 and America saw her like this. 191 00:18:09,409 --> 00:18:11,310 In Europe itself... 192 00:18:11,411 --> 00:18:13,380 they were going a little further... 193 00:18:19,685 --> 00:18:22,052 making pictures like Casanova... 194 00:18:23,990 --> 00:18:25,891 and Small Town Sinner. 195 00:18:25,992 --> 00:18:29,087 And this is from Abel Gance's End of the World. 196 00:18:29,195 --> 00:18:33,530 European films differed not only in the extent of nudity they permitted... 197 00:18:33,633 --> 00:18:36,626 but in their portrayal of human behavior. 198 00:18:36,736 --> 00:18:41,470 In Diary of a Lost Girl, made in Germany in 1929... 199 00:18:41,574 --> 00:18:44,408 a young girl with no money and no place to turn... 200 00:18:44,510 --> 00:18:47,309 goes to the address of the only friend she has. 201 00:18:47,413 --> 00:18:51,908 Unknown to her, it is a bordello. 202 00:18:56,622 --> 00:19:00,684 Its madam could have played Grandma in any American film. 203 00:19:01,761 --> 00:19:06,699 But no American-made film could or would have presented a brothel... 204 00:19:06,799 --> 00:19:09,291 in such a sympathetic manner. 205 00:19:20,980 --> 00:19:22,881 The girl is Louise Brooks... 206 00:19:22,982 --> 00:19:26,475 a young American actress who made her most famous pictures in Europe. 207 00:19:26,586 --> 00:19:31,684 And the question is, will she accept the bordello or not? 208 00:20:00,386 --> 00:20:05,086 One European film, made at the end of this period, caused a sensation in the United States. 209 00:20:05,191 --> 00:20:10,494 It was Ecstasy, famed for its numerous encounters with the censors. 210 00:20:10,596 --> 00:20:13,498 It starred one of the most beautiful women in the world- 211 00:20:13,599 --> 00:20:15,568 Hedy Lamarr. 212 00:20:32,852 --> 00:20:37,256 Afterwards, Miss Lamarr married industrialist Fritz Mandl. 213 00:20:37,356 --> 00:20:43,091 He spent a fortune attempting to buy up and destroy all the prints of Ecstasy, but he failed. 214 00:20:43,195 --> 00:20:46,359 Even Benito Mussolini had a personal print... 215 00:20:46,465 --> 00:20:48,525 and would not surrender it. 216 00:21:08,754 --> 00:21:13,124 In 1938 Miss Lamarr was to create another sensation... 217 00:21:13,225 --> 00:21:18,596 this time for an outstanding performance opposite Charles Boyer in Algiers. 218 00:21:18,698 --> 00:21:21,293 It was to make her an American star. 219 00:21:22,835 --> 00:21:25,805 ♪♪ [Cancan] 220 00:21:30,076 --> 00:21:34,036 The cancan from G. W. Pabst's L'Atlantide. 221 00:21:34,146 --> 00:21:36,445 With the coming of sound in 1929... 222 00:21:36,549 --> 00:21:39,451 dancing brought to the movies new erotic possibilities. 223 00:21:39,552 --> 00:21:41,817 ♪♪ [Continues] 224 00:22:16,255 --> 00:22:19,953 However, this film, L'Atlantide, has another significance. 225 00:22:20,059 --> 00:22:23,359 Its star illustrates almost perfectly the type of love goddess... 226 00:22:23,462 --> 00:22:26,523 who was next to dominate the movies. 227 00:22:27,833 --> 00:22:32,396 A public caught up in the booming, wondrous, unbelievable '20s... 228 00:22:32,505 --> 00:22:34,064 was now demanding the unattainable. 229 00:22:34,940 --> 00:22:38,399 The result was the creation of an exotic image... 230 00:22:38,511 --> 00:22:42,881 a woman not to be loved but worshipped, even feared. 231 00:22:44,216 --> 00:22:46,208 Antinea. 232 00:22:48,287 --> 00:22:52,987 Brigitte Helm was the first example of this new, queen like goddess - 233 00:22:53,092 --> 00:22:56,426 beautiful, cold and deadly. 234 00:23:01,500 --> 00:23:03,799 She toys with her male captives... 235 00:23:03,903 --> 00:23:07,772 and offers each his freedom if he can win at chess. 236 00:23:07,873 --> 00:23:10,604 Those who lose belong to her. 237 00:23:13,412 --> 00:23:15,381 Check. 238 00:23:22,621 --> 00:23:24,590 [Antinea] Check. 239 00:23:26,225 --> 00:23:28,194 Check. 240 00:23:30,629 --> 00:23:32,598 Check. 241 00:23:35,401 --> 00:23:37,370 Check. 242 00:23:39,872 --> 00:23:41,841 Check. 243 00:23:48,748 --> 00:23:50,717 Checkmate. 244 00:23:51,884 --> 00:23:53,785 [Narrator] It was this queen like image... 245 00:23:53,886 --> 00:23:57,050 that was next to rule the American film. 246 00:23:57,156 --> 00:24:01,150 The goddesses'appearance and their manner were royal... 247 00:24:01,260 --> 00:24:04,287 but they were not always godlike to start with. 248 00:24:04,396 --> 00:24:08,959 Even Greta Garbo did not start out projecting this quality at all. 249 00:24:09,068 --> 00:24:12,800 In fact, here is the raw material- 250 00:24:13,839 --> 00:24:17,241 Great Garbo in her very first film... 251 00:24:17,343 --> 00:24:21,246 a simple Swedish comedy entitled Peter the Tramp... 252 00:24:21,347 --> 00:24:24,317 produced in 1922. 253 00:24:38,464 --> 00:24:42,196 Who then could have foretold that within a few years... 254 00:24:42,301 --> 00:24:44,793 Miss Garbo would be shaped into a legend? 255 00:24:45,271 --> 00:24:46,796 On the other hand... 256 00:24:46,906 --> 00:24:50,399 it might just have been possible to recognize another queen like goddess... 257 00:24:50,509 --> 00:24:52,478 from this early film. 258 00:24:55,881 --> 00:24:59,511 It was The Blue Angel that was to turn Marlene Dietrich into a star. 259 00:25:01,086 --> 00:25:03,453 Opposite her was the great Emil Jannings. 260 00:25:03,556 --> 00:25:06,151 He played a respectable, aging schoolteacher... 261 00:25:06,258 --> 00:25:09,558 obsessed with a nightclub singer and destined to be destroyed by her. 262 00:25:09,662 --> 00:25:12,632 ♪♪ [Orchestra] 263 00:25:29,415 --> 00:25:33,375 ♪♪ [Singing In German] 264 00:25:44,630 --> 00:25:47,600 ♪♪ [Singing Continues] 265 00:26:32,244 --> 00:26:35,214 [Speaking German] 266 00:26:39,919 --> 00:26:44,152 [Narrator] Marlene Dietrich was royalty, no matter what role she played. 267 00:26:44,256 --> 00:26:48,819 The Blue Angel was the first of her seven films to be directed by Josef von Sternberg... 268 00:26:48,928 --> 00:26:51,329 and it was he who brought her to America. 269 00:26:51,430 --> 00:26:53,831 [Coughing] 270 00:26:53,933 --> 00:26:56,402 [Speaking German] 271 00:27:02,942 --> 00:27:05,639 [Speaking German] 272 00:27:05,744 --> 00:27:08,578 I'm sorry, miss, but I don't understand a word. 273 00:27:08,681 --> 00:27:10,343 Will you please go away. 274 00:27:15,955 --> 00:27:18,789 It's a shame, allowing such women on a first-class train. 275 00:27:18,891 --> 00:27:20,792 What's the matter with 'em, Parson? 276 00:27:20,893 --> 00:27:24,386 I imagine the honorable divine objects to their morals. 277 00:27:24,496 --> 00:27:28,490 Well, I thought they were pretty good-looking- at least Shanghai Lily is. 278 00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:31,502 Do you mean to say that Shanghai Lily is on this train? 279 00:27:31,603 --> 00:27:33,504 Hot water, sir? 280 00:27:33,605 --> 00:27:35,506 Confound it, sir, that's Shanghai Lily! 281 00:27:35,607 --> 00:27:38,568 For the last fortnight I've been attending a man who went out of his mind... 282 00:27:38,610 --> 00:27:40,602 after spending every penny on her. 283 00:27:40,713 --> 00:27:43,615 [Bell Tolling] 284 00:27:43,716 --> 00:27:47,619 - How have I changed? - You know, I wish I could describe it. 285 00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:51,054 Well, Doc, I've changed my name. 286 00:27:51,156 --> 00:27:53,352 - Married? - No. 287 00:27:55,294 --> 00:28:00,665 It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily. 288 00:28:01,700 --> 00:28:03,601 [Narrator] 193 1. 289 00:28:03,702 --> 00:28:06,331 The film -Morocco. 290 00:28:06,438 --> 00:28:09,408 ♪♪ [Singing In French] 291 00:28:26,992 --> 00:28:29,962 ♪♪ [Orchestra Continues] 292 00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:39,001 May I offer you this glass of champagne, mademoiselle? 293 00:28:42,708 --> 00:28:44,677 Thank you. 294 00:28:45,944 --> 00:28:47,913 À votre santé. 295 00:28:50,949 --> 00:28:53,418 ♪♪ [Orchestra Continues] 296 00:28:59,191 --> 00:29:01,160 [Woman Giggling] 297 00:29:09,735 --> 00:29:12,330 - May I have this? - Of course. 298 00:29:17,576 --> 00:29:19,977 [Audience Laughing] 299 00:29:20,079 --> 00:29:22,048 [Applause Resumes] 300 00:29:39,998 --> 00:29:41,967 Bravo! 301 00:29:45,104 --> 00:29:49,508 [Narrator] The real period of wide-open sex in America had arrived. 302 00:29:49,608 --> 00:29:52,510 It was not the '20s, as generally believed... 303 00:29:52,611 --> 00:29:56,343 but actually the four years from 1930 to 1933. 304 00:29:57,382 --> 00:29:59,942 The new love goddesses were homegrown... 305 00:30:00,052 --> 00:30:05,286 and no love goddess was more American than the blonde bombshell Jean Harlow. 306 00:30:10,229 --> 00:30:13,028 Let's not talk about things like that now. 307 00:30:13,132 --> 00:30:16,034 Now, wait a minute. I'll do anything you ask me to, but I will not lift- 308 00:30:16,135 --> 00:30:19,037 I love that nose. Oh, it's such a sweet nose. 309 00:30:19,138 --> 00:30:22,370 Nevertheless, whether the nose is sweet or not, I'm not gonna live in your house. 310 00:30:22,474 --> 00:30:24,375 You might as well get that... 311 00:30:24,476 --> 00:30:26,377 straight. 312 00:30:26,478 --> 00:30:29,243 - You want me to be happy, don't you? - Mm-hmm. 313 00:30:29,348 --> 00:30:31,817 - Then I'm not gonna live here. - Mm-hmm. 314 00:30:38,190 --> 00:30:40,989 - You're not hungry, are you? - No. 315 00:30:41,093 --> 00:30:42,994 I'm not either. 316 00:30:43,095 --> 00:30:45,496 Don't you just love Sunday afternoons? 317 00:30:45,597 --> 00:30:50,035 Everything quiet. Nobody at home to disturb you. 318 00:30:50,135 --> 00:30:52,297 Madge, there's somethin' I got to tell you- 319 00:30:52,404 --> 00:30:55,169 You were goin' away, weren't you? Packin' to leave. 320 00:30:55,274 --> 00:30:58,733 Oh, honey lamb, you mustn't do that. 321 00:30:58,844 --> 00:31:01,746 What would Father say if he came back and found you gone? 322 00:31:01,847 --> 00:31:03,748 And I would cry. 323 00:31:03,849 --> 00:31:05,750 Cry! 324 00:31:05,851 --> 00:31:09,253 [Narrator] The owner of the lazy Southern accent is Miss Bette Davis. 325 00:31:09,354 --> 00:31:12,324 The film -Cabin in the Cotton. Her costar-Richard Barthelmess. 326 00:31:12,424 --> 00:31:14,393 I don't know. 327 00:31:15,794 --> 00:31:18,696 Come up to my room for a minute. 328 00:31:18,797 --> 00:31:21,289 I wanna talk to you about somethin'. 329 00:31:25,837 --> 00:31:28,534 Turn your back and look at those snapshots for a minute... 330 00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:30,666 while I get into somethin' more restful. 331 00:31:31,944 --> 00:31:34,106 Turn your back. 332 00:31:43,822 --> 00:31:47,259 ♪ Did you ever hear of a story ♪ 333 00:31:47,359 --> 00:31:51,353 ♪ 'Bout Willie the Weeper ♪ 334 00:31:51,463 --> 00:31:54,126 ♪ Made his livin' ♪ 335 00:31:54,233 --> 00:31:56,998 ♪ As a chimney sweeper ♪ 336 00:31:57,102 --> 00:31:59,196 ♪ He had a dope habit ♪ 337 00:31:59,304 --> 00:32:01,830 ♪ And he had it bad ♪ 338 00:32:01,940 --> 00:32:04,273 ♪ Listen while I tell you ♪ 339 00:32:04,376 --> 00:32:08,643 ♪ 'Bout a dream he had♪♪ 340 00:32:08,747 --> 00:32:10,716 Marvin? 341 00:32:14,753 --> 00:32:16,722 Madge. 342 00:32:25,797 --> 00:32:28,767 ♪♪ [Orchestra] 343 00:32:44,783 --> 00:32:47,582 [Narrator] Busby Berkeley, a genius of design... 344 00:32:47,686 --> 00:32:53,250 created these monumental and mathematically precise production numbers. 345 00:32:53,358 --> 00:32:56,817 He dreamt up images that would have shocked Sigmund Freud himself. 346 00:32:56,928 --> 00:33:00,490 ♪ Birds of blue and days of morn abound ♪ 347 00:33:00,599 --> 00:33:03,091 ♪ To praise you ♪ 348 00:33:03,201 --> 00:33:06,865 ♪ Love will take you by the hand ♪ 349 00:33:06,972 --> 00:33:10,534 ♪ And lead you to this wonderland ♪ 350 00:33:10,642 --> 00:33:14,511 ♪ Forget about the rain No schemes ♪ 351 00:33:14,613 --> 00:33:16,980 ♪ Spin a little web of dreams ♪♪ 352 00:33:17,082 --> 00:33:20,541 ♪♪ [Orchestra Continues] 353 00:33:27,826 --> 00:33:32,730 The production number always seemed to start with a duet between Ruby Keeler and Dick Powell. 354 00:33:32,831 --> 00:33:35,630 - ♪ Pettin' in the park ♪ - Bad boy! 355 00:33:35,734 --> 00:33:38,499 ♪ Pettin' in the dark Bad girl ♪ 356 00:33:38,603 --> 00:33:41,266 ♪ First you pet a little Let up a little ♪ 357 00:33:41,373 --> 00:33:43,467 ♪ Then you get a little kiss ♪♪ 358 00:33:43,575 --> 00:33:45,476 [Narrator] Then Miss Keeler danced. 359 00:33:45,577 --> 00:33:47,478 ♪ Pettin' the park Tweet-tweet-twee-do ♪ 360 00:33:47,579 --> 00:33:49,480 ♪ Pettin' in the dark Tweet-tweet-do ♪ 361 00:33:49,581 --> 00:33:52,813 - ♪♪ [Continues] - But sooner or later... 362 00:33:52,918 --> 00:33:55,820 it turned into a fantasy of eroticism. 363 00:33:55,921 --> 00:33:58,390 ♪♪ [Orchestra Continues] 364 00:34:11,436 --> 00:34:13,769 [Thunder Rumbling] 365 00:34:24,683 --> 00:34:27,847 [Thunder Rumbling] 366 00:34:40,432 --> 00:34:42,401 [Rumbling Continues] 367 00:35:09,728 --> 00:35:11,959 [Chorus] ♪ Pettin' in the park, bad boy ♪ 368 00:35:12,063 --> 00:35:14,658 ♪ Pettin' in the dark Bad girl ♪ 369 00:35:14,766 --> 00:35:16,997 ♪ Pet a little Let up a little ♪ 370 00:35:17,102 --> 00:35:19,094 ♪ And then you get a little kiss Ohh ♪ 371 00:35:19,204 --> 00:35:20,934 - [Clanging] - ♪ Pettin'on the sly ♪ 372 00:35:21,039 --> 00:35:24,305 ♪ Oh, my Act a little shy, oh, why ♪ 373 00:35:24,409 --> 00:35:26,969 - ♪ Struggle a little, then hug a little ♪ - [Clanging Continues] 374 00:35:27,078 --> 00:35:28,512 ♪ Cuddle up and whisper this ♪ 375 00:35:28,613 --> 00:35:32,015 - ♪ Come on, I've been waiting long ♪ - [Clanging Continues] 376 00:35:32,117 --> 00:35:34,177 ♪ Why don't we get started ♪ 377 00:35:34,286 --> 00:35:36,619 ♪ Come on Maybe this is wrong ♪ 378 00:35:36,721 --> 00:35:39,520 ♪ But, gee, what of it We just love it ♪ 379 00:35:39,624 --> 00:35:42,059 ♪ Pettin'in the park Bad boy ♪ 380 00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:44,652 ♪ Pettin'in the dark Bad girl♪♪ 381 00:35:44,763 --> 00:35:46,664 ♪♪ [Fades] 382 00:35:46,765 --> 00:35:50,497 [Narrator] The four years were full of irreverent comedies... 383 00:35:50,602 --> 00:35:54,232 and one of the most charming of the comediennes was Carole Lombard. 384 00:35:56,074 --> 00:35:59,408 By now, Clara Bow's bloomers were out of style. 385 00:35:59,511 --> 00:36:02,845 It was a new era in fashion - the lingerie era - 386 00:36:02,948 --> 00:36:05,884 and just as bathing scenes had been part of the '20s... 387 00:36:05,984 --> 00:36:09,819 so, in the early '30s, the filmmakers usually found an excuse... 388 00:36:09,921 --> 00:36:13,187 to get the heroine down to her step-ins. 389 00:36:16,828 --> 00:36:19,798 [Doorbell Rings] 390 00:36:20,999 --> 00:36:23,491 [Narrator] The film is No Man of Her Own- 391 00:36:23,602 --> 00:36:25,503 Hello? 392 00:36:25,604 --> 00:36:29,666 and brought Carole Lombard and Clark Gable together for the first and only time in the movies. 393 00:36:29,774 --> 00:36:32,005 - [ Knocking] - Who is it? 394 00:36:33,044 --> 00:36:35,070 Is, uh, this Miss Randall's cabin? 395 00:36:36,882 --> 00:36:39,351 Yes! 396 00:36:39,451 --> 00:36:42,250 - Can I come in? - Well- 397 00:36:42,354 --> 00:36:44,721 Just a minute! Just a minute! 398 00:36:46,391 --> 00:36:48,360 Now you can come in! 399 00:36:48,460 --> 00:36:51,555 [Narrator] The plot it selfis an example... 400 00:36:51,663 --> 00:36:54,462 of society’s changing standards. 401 00:36:54,566 --> 00:36:57,126 Gable has come to spend the weekend... 402 00:36:57,235 --> 00:37:01,434 but thus far Miss Lombard has not succumbed to his charm. 403 00:37:01,540 --> 00:37:03,941 Why keep kidding around like this? 404 00:37:04,042 --> 00:37:05,943 I'm not kidding. 405 00:37:06,044 --> 00:37:10,209 Only, well, you just walk in and pick up a girl... 406 00:37:10,315 --> 00:37:12,409 and walk out. 407 00:37:12,517 --> 00:37:14,486 Is that fair? 408 00:37:18,056 --> 00:37:20,958 No. No, you're right. 409 00:37:21,059 --> 00:37:23,460 Ah, well, forget it. 410 00:37:23,562 --> 00:37:25,463 Anyway, we've had a little fun. 411 00:37:25,564 --> 00:37:29,467 I've seen Glendale, had a couple of laughs. 412 00:37:29,568 --> 00:37:31,537 I'll be seeing you around sometime. 413 00:37:32,904 --> 00:37:34,805 So long, honey. 414 00:37:34,906 --> 00:37:36,807 Why don't you be a sport? 415 00:37:36,908 --> 00:37:38,809 Why don't you give a girl a break? 416 00:37:38,910 --> 00:37:41,470 Why don't you take a chance? 417 00:37:41,580 --> 00:37:43,981 I don't get you. 418 00:37:44,082 --> 00:37:46,051 Have you ever gambled? 419 00:37:47,419 --> 00:37:49,650 Hey, I'll gamble on anything. 420 00:37:49,754 --> 00:37:52,223 Why don't you gamble with me? 421 00:37:54,793 --> 00:37:56,762 All right. 422 00:37:59,297 --> 00:38:02,028 - Heads we do, tails we- - Get married! 423 00:38:04,436 --> 00:38:06,337 Right. 424 00:38:06,438 --> 00:38:08,407 I never go back on a coin. 425 00:38:13,845 --> 00:38:16,815 ♪♪ [Organ] 426 00:38:21,953 --> 00:38:24,252 [Narrator] Comedies got earthier. 427 00:38:24,356 --> 00:38:27,258 The public wanted to know more, to hear more... 428 00:38:27,359 --> 00:38:29,260 and to see more. 429 00:38:29,361 --> 00:38:31,387 The picture -Professional Sweetheart. 430 00:38:31,496 --> 00:38:36,161 Ginger Rogers is the Purity Girl, America's radio sweetheart... 431 00:38:36,267 --> 00:38:39,863 married for publicity through a nationwide contest. 432 00:38:39,971 --> 00:38:42,873 But the groom has caught on that he has been duped... 433 00:38:42,974 --> 00:38:45,375 and takes matters into his own hands. 434 00:38:45,477 --> 00:38:48,641 Gonna make you into the kind of woman I thought you was-a good woman. 435 00:38:48,747 --> 00:38:51,148 - A woman that- - Got a cigarette? I'm simply dying- 436 00:38:51,249 --> 00:38:53,684 No! 437 00:38:53,785 --> 00:38:56,277 Any liquor? 438 00:38:56,388 --> 00:38:58,823 Oh, dear. 439 00:38:58,923 --> 00:39:04,123 - Smokin' and drinkin' and- - Mmm, smokin' and drinkin' and men. 440 00:39:04,229 --> 00:39:06,198 And men? 441 00:39:06,297 --> 00:39:08,266 How-H-How many? 442 00:39:09,334 --> 00:39:11,394 Mmm, I don't remember. 443 00:39:11,503 --> 00:39:13,597 Hundreds. 444 00:39:15,807 --> 00:39:18,868 Stop that! Ain't ya got no decency at all? 445 00:39:22,947 --> 00:39:25,178 After all, you're my husband, aren't you? 446 00:39:27,018 --> 00:39:28,987 Here. 447 00:39:34,993 --> 00:39:38,657 - Give me that. - Give those to me. Give them to me. 448 00:39:38,763 --> 00:39:41,028 Give them to me. 449 00:39:41,132 --> 00:39:44,068 All right. ♪♪ [ Humming] 450 00:39:44,169 --> 00:39:48,300 [Narrator] Comedy roles like these were Miss Rogers's first success. 451 00:39:48,406 --> 00:39:50,841 And though this type of movie was soon to disappear... 452 00:39:50,942 --> 00:39:54,174 she went on to the top, dancing with Fred Astaire... 453 00:39:54,279 --> 00:39:58,216 and winning an Oscar for a dramatic role as Kitty Foyle. 454 00:39:58,316 --> 00:40:00,876 ♪♪ [ Humming Continues] 455 00:40:00,985 --> 00:40:03,887 - Stop it! - Make me. Make me, you great big- I'll dance if I like. 456 00:40:03,988 --> 00:40:07,322 I want to get- Let go of me! Stop it! Stop it! 457 00:40:07,425 --> 00:40:10,520 - Ouch! - You great, big-Oh! Oh! 458 00:40:10,628 --> 00:40:13,120 If I ever lose my temper, I'll just- 459 00:40:13,231 --> 00:40:16,326 One of these days, I'll show you just how- 460 00:40:23,975 --> 00:40:26,137 Glory, baby. Glory. 461 00:40:27,846 --> 00:40:30,839 Oh, God, please don't let her die. 462 00:40:30,949 --> 00:40:32,918 She's wicked, but I love her. 463 00:40:34,085 --> 00:40:37,647 ♪ Kiss me he'll be saying ♪ 464 00:40:37,756 --> 00:40:42,694 ♪ Gently swaying I'll obey ♪ 465 00:40:42,794 --> 00:40:46,162 ♪ Like two children playing ♪ 466 00:40:46,264 --> 00:40:48,165 ♪ In the-♪♪ Hey! 467 00:40:48,266 --> 00:40:52,226 [Narrator]Jeanette MacDonald's name usually brings to mind Nelson Eddy... 468 00:40:52,337 --> 00:40:57,207 and memories of sentimental and not particularly sexy operettas. 469 00:40:57,308 --> 00:40:59,243 But that was to come later. 470 00:40:59,344 --> 00:41:04,442 During these years, Miss MacDonald's comedies blended sex and sophistication. 471 00:41:04,549 --> 00:41:07,644 Among them, Rouben Mamoulian's Love Me Tonight. 472 00:41:14,292 --> 00:41:16,989 Princess! Help! Help! 473 00:41:17,095 --> 00:41:20,657 - [Chattering] - Oh, my goodness. She-She's fainted again. 474 00:41:22,901 --> 00:41:25,928 You know, I had an elder brother who used to faint quite often. 475 00:41:26,037 --> 00:41:28,006 - He was a "nip-omaniac." - A what? 476 00:41:28,106 --> 00:41:30,905 A "nip-omaniac." He used to go around pinching things. 477 00:41:31,009 --> 00:41:34,468 Oh, I had a friend like that. He used to pinch business girls in elevators. 478 00:41:34,579 --> 00:41:37,048 - They had to send him to a cooler climate. - [Chuckles] No. 479 00:41:37,148 --> 00:41:39,228 - I knew a girl- - This is no time for reminiscences. 480 00:41:39,317 --> 00:41:41,786 Go and get a couple of footmen to carry her upstairs. 481 00:41:41,886 --> 00:41:43,855 But you gave the servants the afternoon off. 482 00:41:43,955 --> 00:41:46,475 Our footmen are playing football against the old soldier's home. 483 00:41:46,558 --> 00:41:49,027 Well, you two carry her upstairs! Someone fetch a doctor. 484 00:41:49,127 --> 00:41:51,289 You carry her. I'll get the doctor. 485 00:41:54,132 --> 00:41:56,363 Valentine, can you go for a doctor? 486 00:41:56,467 --> 00:41:58,868 - Certainly. Bring him right in. - Ye-No, no. 487 00:41:58,970 --> 00:42:01,337 No, it's for Jeanette. She's fainted again. 488 00:42:01,439 --> 00:42:03,340 Oh. 489 00:42:04,375 --> 00:42:08,039 Princess, permit me to introduce Dr. Armand de Fontinac. 490 00:42:08,146 --> 00:42:10,115 - Your Highness. - Doctor. 491 00:42:18,156 --> 00:42:20,887 And now, my dear, remove your dress. 492 00:42:20,992 --> 00:42:22,893 - My what? - Your dress. 493 00:42:22,994 --> 00:42:25,429 - Huh? - There's no occasion for distress. 494 00:42:25,530 --> 00:42:28,967 - Is that necessary? - Very. Yes. 495 00:42:29,067 --> 00:42:33,767 As long as professional ethics apply, I'll see you with only a doctor's eye. 496 00:42:33,872 --> 00:42:35,841 Oh, dear. 497 00:42:46,751 --> 00:42:49,448 The doctor's eye is satisfied. 498 00:42:49,554 --> 00:42:51,580 Now I'll hear your heart. [Clears Throat] 499 00:42:51,689 --> 00:42:54,921 - [Sighs] - Don't sigh. 500 00:42:57,295 --> 00:42:59,730 Very good. Nothing wrong here. 501 00:42:59,831 --> 00:43:01,993 Now I'll take your pulse, my dear. 502 00:43:03,668 --> 00:43:06,263 Perfectly regular. Right on the tick. 503 00:43:06,371 --> 00:43:09,967 Madam, oh, madam, you cannot be sick. 504 00:43:10,074 --> 00:43:13,909 Then why do I lie awake in bed, and why does blood rush to my head? 505 00:43:14,012 --> 00:43:17,312 - At night? - Quite right. At night. 506 00:43:18,616 --> 00:43:23,611 And why does music make me sad, and why do love songs drive me mad? 507 00:43:23,721 --> 00:43:26,850 - At night. - Quite right. At night. 508 00:43:27,892 --> 00:43:32,296 - And frequently I faint. - That's quaint. 509 00:43:32,397 --> 00:43:37,028 ♪ I feel depressed when I'm alone in bed at night ♪ 510 00:43:37,135 --> 00:43:41,630 - How old are you? - ♪ I'm 22 ♪ 511 00:43:41,739 --> 00:43:45,938 ♪ While other people dance I feel so dead at night ♪♪ 512 00:43:46,044 --> 00:43:48,513 At 22. 513 00:43:48,613 --> 00:43:51,105 Oh, this won't do. 514 00:43:51,215 --> 00:43:54,845 - Are you married? - My husband died three years ago. 515 00:43:54,953 --> 00:43:58,219 - At 16 I was wed. - You've been a widow for three years? 516 00:43:58,323 --> 00:44:01,919 - Three years the prince is dead. - You were very happy with your spouse? 517 00:44:02,026 --> 00:44:06,225 - He was the son of a noble house. - Hmm. 518 00:44:06,331 --> 00:44:08,960 It was the happiness of great peace. 519 00:44:10,134 --> 00:44:12,103 Rochambeau. 520 00:44:12,203 --> 00:44:14,297 My better half. 521 00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:17,466 And here you have his photograph. 522 00:44:24,382 --> 00:44:27,250 - ♪♪ [Fanfare] - [Chattering] 523 00:44:28,553 --> 00:44:32,012 [Narrator] Of all the love goddesses of comedy, one was to dominate. 524 00:44:32,123 --> 00:44:35,890 With the right kind of encouragement, she'll throw discretion to the winds. 525 00:44:35,994 --> 00:44:37,986 And her hips to the north, east, south and west! 526 00:44:38,096 --> 00:44:40,998 It's the only show on earth where the tickets are made of asbestos. 527 00:44:41,099 --> 00:44:45,059 [Narrator]She was a goddess molded by two opposing forces - 528 00:44:45,169 --> 00:44:49,334 one, the demand for an ever-increasing frankness about sex... 529 00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:54,071 the other, a traditional reluctance to face it openly. 530 00:44:54,178 --> 00:44:56,704 The result had to be satire. 531 00:44:56,814 --> 00:45:01,275 Even today, Mae West is remembered by people who never saw her... 532 00:45:01,386 --> 00:45:03,719 as the sexiest of the love goddesses. 533 00:45:03,821 --> 00:45:06,916 In actual fact, it was not so much that she was sexy... 534 00:45:07,025 --> 00:45:09,756 but that she was funny about sex. 535 00:45:09,861 --> 00:45:12,922 [ Man] If I wasn't a married man, I could go for you, baby. 536 00:45:13,031 --> 00:45:15,023 No wisecracks now. 537 00:45:20,538 --> 00:45:22,473 Penny for your thoughts. 538 00:45:23,508 --> 00:45:26,376 [Narrator] Sit back, watch... 539 00:45:26,477 --> 00:45:30,642 and you’ll see why Mae West completely dominated the early '30s. 540 00:45:31,749 --> 00:45:35,584 ♪ And they call me Sister Honky-Tonk ♪ 541 00:45:35,686 --> 00:45:38,520 ♪ I've got the face of a saint ♪ 542 00:45:38,623 --> 00:45:41,616 ♪ On the level it ain't paint ♪ 543 00:45:41,726 --> 00:45:44,457 ♪ Beware of these eyes ♪ 544 00:45:44,562 --> 00:45:49,398 ♪ I'm a devil in disguise ♪ 545 00:45:49,500 --> 00:45:52,436 ♪ And they call me Sister Honky-Tonk ♪ 546 00:45:52,537 --> 00:45:54,438 ♪ Get over, dirty ♪ 547 00:45:54,539 --> 00:45:57,771 ♪ They call me Sister Honky-Tonk ♪ 548 00:46:01,479 --> 00:46:03,948 Ooh, mama! 549 00:46:04,048 --> 00:46:06,916 I know just how you feel, honey. 550 00:46:07,018 --> 00:46:08,987 [Audience Laughs] 551 00:46:09,087 --> 00:46:11,147 ♪ Oh ♪ 552 00:46:14,092 --> 00:46:17,028 ♪ Just play a passionate strain ♪ 553 00:46:17,128 --> 00:46:20,257 ♪ Then I'll be low-down again ♪ 554 00:46:20,364 --> 00:46:22,265 ♪ It's fire, and it's flame ♪ 555 00:46:22,366 --> 00:46:26,269 ♪ So be careful of this dame ♪ 556 00:46:26,370 --> 00:46:29,704 ♪ Oh, they call me Sister Honky-Tonk ♪ 557 00:46:29,807 --> 00:46:32,276 ♪ I gotta scram now ♪♪ 558 00:46:32,376 --> 00:46:34,470 [All Shouting] 559 00:46:35,613 --> 00:46:37,741 Am I making myself clear, boys? 560 00:46:41,719 --> 00:46:43,688 Suckers. 561 00:46:45,556 --> 00:46:48,355 [ Man] Never met anybody just like you before. You're different. 562 00:46:48,459 --> 00:46:50,979 [Woman] Anything different always costs more, but it's worth it. 563 00:46:52,497 --> 00:46:54,796 Oh, uh, by the way, honey, you married or single? 564 00:46:54,899 --> 00:46:57,994 - Married five times. - Five times? [ Laughs] 565 00:46:58,102 --> 00:47:01,038 - Wedding bells must sound like an alarm clock to ya. - [Scoffs] Oh! 566 00:47:01,139 --> 00:47:03,301 I don't suppose you believe in marriage, do ya? 567 00:47:03,407 --> 00:47:05,433 Only as a last resort. [Chuckles] 568 00:47:05,543 --> 00:47:07,478 Uh, what do you do for a living? 569 00:47:07,860 --> 00:47:10,980 Oh, uh, sort of a politician. 570 00:47:11,082 --> 00:47:13,950 - Oh, I don't like work either. - Oh. [Chuckles] 571 00:47:14,051 --> 00:47:17,488 Oh, uh, you know, I like to get around and travel... 572 00:47:17,588 --> 00:47:20,285 and believe me, I've been places and seen things. 573 00:47:20,391 --> 00:47:23,919 Mm-hmm? I've been things and seen places. 574 00:47:24,028 --> 00:47:26,691 That sort of evens us up, huh? 575 00:47:26,797 --> 00:47:28,698 Mmm. 576 00:47:28,799 --> 00:47:30,768 Sit down. 577 00:47:34,205 --> 00:47:36,174 I didn't get your name. 578 00:47:37,975 --> 00:47:40,809 Then what about tomorrow? For breakfast, lunch and dinner. Anything. 579 00:47:40,912 --> 00:47:43,313 Oh, let me see. 580 00:47:43,414 --> 00:47:46,179 Breakfast I have in bed, so that's out. 581 00:47:46,284 --> 00:47:48,844 I don't eat lunch, and dinner I - 582 00:47:48,953 --> 00:47:52,082 Well, make it supper tomorrow night. 583 00:47:52,190 --> 00:47:54,659 That's a date. And we'll go out. 584 00:47:54,759 --> 00:47:57,160 I like sophisticated men to take me out. 585 00:47:57,261 --> 00:47:59,628 Well, I'm not really sophisticated. 586 00:47:59,730 --> 00:48:02,199 Well, you're not really out yet either. 587 00:48:02,300 --> 00:48:04,269 [ Both Chuckle] 588 00:48:04,368 --> 00:48:06,337 - You're a liar! - Say, listen, you. 589 00:48:06,437 --> 00:48:08,770 A better dame than you once called me a liar... 590 00:48:08,873 --> 00:48:11,342 and they had to sew her up in 12 different places. 591 00:48:11,442 --> 00:48:14,173 You're lucky I'm a little more refined than I used to be. 592 00:48:14,278 --> 00:48:16,543 And if you was as much a lady as I am... 593 00:48:16,647 --> 00:48:19,207 you'd get out of here before I get real sore. 594 00:48:19,317 --> 00:48:23,721 - You haven't a streak of decency in you. - I don't show my good points to strangers. 595 00:48:24,770 --> 00:48:26,985 I'll trouble you to scram. 596 00:48:30,027 --> 00:48:32,189 Just a minute. 597 00:48:32,296 --> 00:48:35,994 I realize there's only one thing that will influence you to leave Kirk alone. 598 00:48:37,268 --> 00:48:39,237 How much? 599 00:48:47,945 --> 00:48:50,244 - Oh, Beulah. - Yes, ma'am. 600 00:48:50,348 --> 00:48:52,317 Peel me a grape. 601 00:48:54,252 --> 00:48:56,414 [Intercom Buzzes] 602 00:48:56,520 --> 00:48:58,455 - Hello? - [Woman] Miss Tira calling. 603 00:48:58,556 --> 00:49:00,457 Good. Put her on. 604 00:49:00,558 --> 00:49:03,687 Oh, uh, Mr. Clayton? 605 00:49:03,794 --> 00:49:07,959 I've been thinking over everything you said, and, uh, I made my decision. 606 00:49:08,065 --> 00:49:10,125 Good. I'm glad you made up your mind so quickly. 607 00:49:10,234 --> 00:49:12,965 Oh, I'm very quick in a slow way. 608 00:49:13,070 --> 00:49:16,438 [Chuckles] You see, I can't discuss it over the phone. 609 00:49:16,540 --> 00:49:19,635 It's, uh-It's got a lot of angles to it. 610 00:49:19,744 --> 00:49:21,940 Uh, you better come up and see me. 611 00:49:22,046 --> 00:49:26,916 Well, I'll be glad to. In fact, I'll come over right away if it's convenient for you. 612 00:49:27,018 --> 00:49:28,987 Most convenient. 613 00:49:29,086 --> 00:49:33,080 I'll tell you this much. You're-You're gonna like what I got in mind. 614 00:49:33,190 --> 00:49:35,091 Mm-hmm. 615 00:49:35,192 --> 00:49:38,162 I'll be ready. Good-bye. 616 00:49:39,263 --> 00:49:41,232 Mmm. 617 00:49:57,281 --> 00:50:02,515 [Narrator] By 1933, the four-year period was coming to an end. 618 00:50:02,620 --> 00:50:07,388 Although this film, Baby Face, was set against a background of the Depression... 619 00:50:07,491 --> 00:50:09,392 its treatment of sex... 620 00:50:09,493 --> 00:50:14,591 represents the culmination of the wide-open attitudes that had begun in the '20s. 621 00:50:14,699 --> 00:50:17,794 I have good references. If I could only see him. 622 00:50:17,902 --> 00:50:20,895 You can wait if you want to, but he's out to lunch. 623 00:50:27,511 --> 00:50:30,379 What part of the South are you from, Mr. Pratt? 624 00:50:32,350 --> 00:50:34,342 Tallapoosa, Georgia. 625 00:50:34,452 --> 00:50:37,081 I know some Pratts where I come from. 626 00:50:37,188 --> 00:50:39,555 Where was that? 627 00:50:39,657 --> 00:50:43,424 Oh, maybe I'll tell you someday when I know you better. 628 00:50:43,527 --> 00:50:46,691 - Say, I like it here. How about a job? - Oh, we don't- 629 00:50:46,797 --> 00:50:50,598 Oh, now, don't tell me in this great big building there ain't someplace for me. 630 00:50:53,437 --> 00:50:55,429 Have you had any experience? 631 00:50:55,539 --> 00:50:57,508 Plenty. 632 00:51:01,011 --> 00:51:04,277 I'd rather wait in there. I hate crowds. 633 00:51:05,750 --> 00:51:07,719 Don't you? 634 00:51:08,986 --> 00:51:11,785 The boss won't be back for an hour. 635 00:51:11,889 --> 00:51:15,121 Well, then why don't we go in and talk this over? 636 00:51:35,246 --> 00:51:38,842 [Narrator] Miss Stanwyck is to proceed floor by floor... 637 00:51:38,949 --> 00:51:42,010 using the same technique until she reaches the top. 638 00:51:43,287 --> 00:51:48,157 We haven't time for every flight, but we have chosen a few of the best. 639 00:51:50,428 --> 00:51:53,455 This is the Benson mortgage. Will you look it over now? 640 00:51:53,564 --> 00:51:56,227 Is the insurance clause here? 641 00:51:58,068 --> 00:52:00,060 Everything's incorporated in it. 642 00:52:04,708 --> 00:52:06,677 Stick around after 5:00. 643 00:52:11,515 --> 00:52:13,711 Oh, not here. Somebody might- 644 00:52:32,536 --> 00:52:36,439 - Has Mr. Brody left yet? - No, Mr. Stevens. I believe he's still here. 645 00:52:43,647 --> 00:52:45,616 Brody. 646 00:52:54,625 --> 00:52:56,594 Brody. 647 00:52:59,597 --> 00:53:02,123 This is an outrage. A man in your position. 648 00:53:02,233 --> 00:53:04,202 Get your check at once. 649 00:53:10,441 --> 00:53:12,410 Young woman. 650 00:53:21,118 --> 00:53:23,917 We've no place here for a girl of your sort. 651 00:53:35,332 --> 00:53:37,301 [ Knocks] 652 00:53:40,337 --> 00:53:42,772 [Woman Sobs] 653 00:53:42,873 --> 00:53:44,842 - Ann. - [Door Closes] 654 00:53:58,289 --> 00:54:00,758 Oh, how could I? 655 00:54:03,093 --> 00:54:05,858 Was he... your first sweetheart? 656 00:54:09,400 --> 00:54:11,369 This is very distressing. 657 00:54:12,770 --> 00:54:17,140 I'm sure you must see how impossible it would be for you to remain at the bank. 658 00:54:17,241 --> 00:54:19,574 But what will I do? 659 00:54:19,677 --> 00:54:23,079 - Have you no family in New York? - No. I'm all alone here. 660 00:54:23,180 --> 00:54:25,479 I haven't any friends, and I haven't any money. 661 00:54:27,084 --> 00:54:29,053 I shall have to think this over. 662 00:54:38,729 --> 00:54:40,755 Will you tell me where you live? 663 00:54:40,864 --> 00:54:44,426 My telephone number is Schuyler 3-2215. 664 00:54:51,375 --> 00:54:54,470 [Narrator] The Depression reshaped America's attitudes. 665 00:54:54,578 --> 00:54:59,175 The consequences of a people having to face breadlines and starvation... 666 00:54:59,283 --> 00:55:02,253 were to be a tightening up of their values. 667 00:55:05,522 --> 00:55:10,551 The American audience no longer would accept a freewheeling approach to sex. 668 00:55:10,661 --> 00:55:13,324 This attitude brought about the Production Code... 669 00:55:13,430 --> 00:55:16,161 an age of innocence... 670 00:55:16,266 --> 00:55:18,360 and a brand-new love goddess. 671 00:55:26,944 --> 00:55:29,140 Oh. 672 00:55:29,246 --> 00:55:31,306 Oh, he's elegant. 673 00:55:31,415 --> 00:55:33,384 Are-Are you sure you like him? 674 00:55:33,484 --> 00:55:35,544 I'm just crazy about him. 675 00:55:35,653 --> 00:55:39,021 I'm awful crazy about you too, Daddy. 676 00:55:39,123 --> 00:55:41,319 I've had such a good time. 677 00:55:42,626 --> 00:55:46,495 Well, now-now you go to sleep. And I'll be in the next room if you want me. 678 00:55:46,597 --> 00:55:48,498 Night, Daddy. 679 00:55:48,599 --> 00:55:51,398 [Narrator] It was the period of Shirley Temple... 680 00:55:51,502 --> 00:55:54,301 Judy Garland and Andy Hardy... 681 00:55:54,405 --> 00:55:56,738 Deanna Durbin... 682 00:55:56,840 --> 00:55:59,969 and the top love goddess of 1937... 683 00:56:00,077 --> 00:56:02,171 Snow White. 684 00:56:02,279 --> 00:56:06,216 From True Heart Susie we had come full circle to True Heart Susie. 685 00:56:06,316 --> 00:56:09,150 The love goddess was now the girl next door. 686 00:56:09,253 --> 00:56:11,188 [ No Audible Dialogue] 687 00:56:13,090 --> 00:56:16,959 [Narrator] It was just a bit part in a movie called They Won't Forget. 688 00:56:17,061 --> 00:56:19,997 The entire role lasted only a few minutes. 689 00:56:20,097 --> 00:56:22,760 But it was to make Lana Turner a star. 690 00:56:27,204 --> 00:56:32,507 The love goddess had become a normal, well-shaped, well-rounded girl... 691 00:56:32,609 --> 00:56:35,340 and her name was Betty Grable. 692 00:56:35,446 --> 00:56:37,415 So let's give 'em three big ones. 693 00:56:37,514 --> 00:56:41,451 [All] Crew! Rah, rah, rah! Crew, crew, crew! 694 00:56:41,552 --> 00:56:43,521 [All Cheering] 695 00:56:45,155 --> 00:56:47,215 ♪ Teacher, teacher ♪ 696 00:56:47,324 --> 00:56:49,452 ♪ I'm a swingin' creature ♪ 697 00:56:49,560 --> 00:56:51,688 ♪ Oh, oh, look at me go ♪ 698 00:56:51,795 --> 00:56:55,459 - ♪ Ladi-adi, ah, ah, ha ♪ - ♪♪ [Vocalizing] 699 00:56:55,566 --> 00:56:58,695 ♪♪ [All Vocalizing] 700 00:57:00,270 --> 00:57:02,466 - ♪ College swing ♪ - ♪ What's that you call it ♪♪ 701 00:57:02,573 --> 00:57:05,168 [Narrator] The girl next door was a heroine... 702 00:57:05,275 --> 00:57:08,040 with whom you flirted and whom you married. 703 00:57:08,145 --> 00:57:12,913 But because she could not say or do what the love goddess of the early '30s could do... 704 00:57:13,016 --> 00:57:18,011 her sex appeal could only come about by emphasizing her physical beauty. 705 00:57:19,990 --> 00:57:22,459 There were sweaters... 706 00:57:22,559 --> 00:57:24,960 and there were sarongs... 707 00:57:25,062 --> 00:57:28,191 and never-never lands where a girl could be startled... 708 00:57:28,298 --> 00:57:30,767 by so little as a kiss. 709 00:57:34,772 --> 00:57:37,071 - Kiss? - A kiss is something that- 710 00:57:37,174 --> 00:57:41,737 Well, you just don't see it around. It's something that-something you do. 711 00:57:44,047 --> 00:57:46,016 Kiss? 712 00:57:48,485 --> 00:57:51,148 That's a kiss. 713 00:57:56,460 --> 00:57:58,429 [Narrator] Then, for a second time... 714 00:57:58,529 --> 00:58:01,658 a world war crushed an age of innocence. 715 00:58:06,136 --> 00:58:11,632 It was time for the love goddesses to return to the great tradition. 716 00:58:12,743 --> 00:58:14,712 Me? 717 00:58:14,812 --> 00:58:16,781 [Narrator] Miss Rita Hayworth. 718 00:58:19,349 --> 00:58:21,511 Sure, I'm decent. 719 00:58:21,618 --> 00:58:24,554 [Narrator] A second cycle was beginning. 720 00:58:24,655 --> 00:58:27,147 Once again the brakes were off. 721 00:58:27,257 --> 00:58:29,692 And with gathering momentum into the '60s... 722 00:58:29,793 --> 00:58:32,092 moral restrictions were to be loosened. 723 00:58:32,196 --> 00:58:35,689 ♪ Put the blame on Mame ♪ 724 00:58:35,799 --> 00:58:40,703 ♪ Mame gave a chump such an ice-cold no ♪ 725 00:58:40,804 --> 00:58:43,933 ♪ For seven days they shoveled snow ♪ 726 00:58:44,041 --> 00:58:48,911 ♪ So you can put the blame on Mame, boys ♪♪ 727 00:58:49,012 --> 00:58:51,982 [Narrator] Only one love goddess was to span the period... 728 00:58:52,082 --> 00:58:54,813 from the age of innocence to the '60s - 729 00:58:54,918 --> 00:58:57,945 from National Velvet to Cleopatra- 730 00:58:58,055 --> 00:59:02,925 Elizabeth Taylor, probably the most beautiful love goddess of them all. 731 00:59:04,027 --> 00:59:06,861 We have chosen this film - A Place in the Sun - 732 00:59:06,964 --> 00:59:09,024 to show the beginning of that change. 733 00:59:09,132 --> 00:59:11,033 Wow. 734 00:59:19,009 --> 00:59:22,173 - Hello. - Hello. 735 00:59:25,682 --> 00:59:27,810 I see you had a misspent youth. 736 00:59:29,152 --> 00:59:31,053 I guess it was. 737 00:59:32,089 --> 00:59:34,923 Why all alone? Being exclusive? 738 00:59:40,330 --> 00:59:42,299 Being dramatic? 739 00:59:47,371 --> 00:59:49,863 Being blue? 740 00:59:49,973 --> 00:59:52,272 I'm just fooling around. 741 00:59:52,376 --> 00:59:55,778 - Maybe you'd like to play. - Oh, no. I'll just watch you. Go ahead. 742 00:59:56,947 --> 00:59:58,916 ♪♪ [Waltz] 743 01:00:01,218 --> 01:00:04,746 ♪♪ [Ballad] 744 01:00:11,962 --> 01:00:15,023 Oh, Angela, if I could only tell you how much I love you. 745 01:00:16,166 --> 01:00:18,931 If I could only tell you all. 746 01:00:19,036 --> 01:00:21,596 Tell mama. 747 01:00:21,705 --> 01:00:24,106 Tell mama all. 748 01:00:34,117 --> 01:00:37,849 [Narrator] No one can create an illusion better than Hollywood. 749 01:00:37,955 --> 01:00:41,949 And the greatest illusions have been the love goddesses themselves - 750 01:00:42,159 --> 01:00:45,789 images formed out of the clay of ordinary mortals. 751 01:00:45,862 --> 01:00:49,026 A girl shaped into a symbol of sex. 752 01:00:49,132 --> 01:00:53,069 First the makeup department. Then the publicity boys take over. 753 01:00:54,852 --> 01:00:58,000 Neither is particularly concerned with the girl inside. 754 01:00:58,561 --> 01:01:01,121 They shoot a lot of cheesecake. 755 01:01:01,281 --> 01:01:04,145 Anything to catch the eye, to show off the figure. 756 01:01:10,887 --> 01:01:14,016 Any prop will do, preferably phallic. 757 01:01:14,124 --> 01:01:15,649 Miss Fourth of July. 758 01:01:15,759 --> 01:01:17,625 Miss Thanksgiving. 759 01:01:17,728 --> 01:01:21,392 Even Miss Idaho Potato. 760 01:01:23,767 --> 01:01:27,033 But acting-That's not so easy. 761 01:01:27,137 --> 01:01:29,368 That's work and patience... 762 01:01:29,473 --> 01:01:31,408 a willingness to learn. 763 01:01:32,509 --> 01:01:34,876 The girl inside is a little scared... 764 01:01:34,978 --> 01:01:37,607 but if there's talent, it begins to show. 765 01:01:37,714 --> 01:01:40,616 - I got water in my ear. - Huh? 766 01:01:40,717 --> 01:01:43,653 - I got water in my ear. - Here, I'll shake it out. 767 01:01:43,754 --> 01:01:46,383 Oh! [ Laughing] 768 01:01:46,490 --> 01:01:50,450 Ow, you're hurting me. [ Laughing] 769 01:01:50,560 --> 01:01:52,586 Joe, let go. 770 01:01:54,464 --> 01:01:56,865 He's kind of exciting and attractive. 771 01:01:57,968 --> 01:02:00,062 - Who's attractive? Who's exciting? - Earl. 772 01:02:00,170 --> 01:02:02,503 - Who? - Joe, you're strangling me. 773 01:02:02,606 --> 01:02:04,575 Who's attractive? Who's excitin'? 774 01:02:04,674 --> 01:02:06,643 - You. - That's better. 775 01:02:08,345 --> 01:02:12,783 [Narrator] Even more than talent, she must have a charm all her own. 776 01:02:12,883 --> 01:02:18,550 A manner so distinctive that even if other women copy it, it is still hers. 777 01:02:18,655 --> 01:02:21,523 ♪ I want to be loved by you ♪ 778 01:02:21,625 --> 01:02:26,290 ♪ Just you Nobody else but you ♪ 779 01:02:26,396 --> 01:02:29,298 ♪ I want to be loved by you ♪ 780 01:02:29,399 --> 01:02:32,733 ♪ Ba-deedly-deedly-deedly-dum Boop-boop-bee-doop ♪♪ 781 01:02:32,836 --> 01:02:36,637 [Narrator]She is a star, and millions upon millions love her. 782 01:02:42,646 --> 01:02:45,081 She belongs more and more to the public. 783 01:02:45,182 --> 01:02:47,310 Less and less to herself. 784 01:02:53,023 --> 01:02:55,492 The created image must continue... 785 01:02:55,592 --> 01:02:57,720 though the girl inside may be tired. 786 01:02:59,396 --> 01:03:01,661 She must pose and smile. 787 01:03:01,765 --> 01:03:04,098 Pose and smile. 788 01:03:06,903 --> 01:03:09,566 "Just one more picture." 789 01:03:10,607 --> 01:03:13,270 "One more." 790 01:03:14,678 --> 01:03:19,275 It's sometimes hard to remember that there was a girl inside. 791 01:03:38,468 --> 01:03:43,736 In the '50s again, a demand arose for something more exotic and different- 792 01:03:43,840 --> 01:03:46,708 for a love image larger than life. 793 01:03:46,810 --> 01:03:50,372 And the most delightful of all the larger-than-life heroines... 794 01:03:50,480 --> 01:03:52,847 was the captivating Sophia Loren. 795 01:03:52,949 --> 01:03:54,918 [Men Whistling] 796 01:03:56,253 --> 01:04:00,088 ♪ You wanna be Americano Americano ♪ 797 01:04:00,190 --> 01:04:02,125 ♪ Americano ♪ 798 01:04:02,225 --> 01:04:04,956 ♪ You were born in Italy ♪ 799 01:04:05,061 --> 01:04:07,121 ♪ Used to living alla moda ♪ 800 01:04:07,230 --> 01:04:10,894 ♪ But if you drink whiskey and soda ♪ 801 01:04:11,001 --> 01:04:13,835 ♪ All you do is sing off-key ♪ 802 01:04:13,937 --> 01:04:16,702 ♪ You dance to rock and roll ♪ 803 01:04:16,806 --> 01:04:19,742 ♪ You play at baseball ♪ 804 01:04:19,843 --> 01:04:22,472 ♪ Those cigarettes you smoke ♪ 805 01:04:22,579 --> 01:04:25,572 ♪ Leave mama broke They should only make you choke ♪ 806 01:04:25,682 --> 01:04:27,651 Hello. 807 01:04:28,818 --> 01:04:30,980 Would you like to buy me a drink? 808 01:04:31,087 --> 01:04:33,852 Well, I'm sorry to disappoint you. I'm just here on business. 809 01:04:33,957 --> 01:04:37,086 - So am I. - Not tonight. 810 01:04:37,194 --> 01:04:39,322 I'm trying to quit. 811 01:04:40,430 --> 01:04:42,490 ♪ You wanna be Americano♪♪ 812 01:04:42,599 --> 01:04:44,830 [Crowd Cheering] 813 01:04:49,105 --> 01:04:53,236 - ♪♪ [Continues] - [Applause] 814 01:05:18,468 --> 01:05:20,437 [Crowd Laughing] 815 01:05:20,537 --> 01:05:22,733 ♪♪ [Continues] 816 01:05:33,149 --> 01:05:36,608 A double mint julep with a bottle of Kentucky bourbon for a chaser. 817 01:05:36,720 --> 01:05:40,316 The young lady is about to become a Southern fried chicken. 818 01:05:41,491 --> 01:05:43,858 And for you, a very Italian drink. 819 01:05:43,960 --> 01:05:47,362 [ Both Speaking Italian] 820 01:05:48,732 --> 01:05:51,258 - [Giggles] - Buona fortuna. 821 01:05:51,368 --> 01:05:53,894 - What am I getting? - Trust me. 822 01:05:54,004 --> 01:05:55,939 Cincin. [Italian] 823 01:05:56,039 --> 01:06:00,306 - What does that mean? - Uh, you would say "To where it's going down." 824 01:06:00,410 --> 01:06:02,970 Oh? I'll drink to that all night. 825 01:06:03,079 --> 01:06:06,208 - [Clears Throat] And to your melanzane. - [Giggles] 826 01:06:09,886 --> 01:06:12,287 [Coughing] 827 01:06:12,389 --> 01:06:14,381 - Mmm! - Uh, will you have a dance with me? 828 01:06:14,491 --> 01:06:17,188 Yes, baby. Come on. Let's dance, huh? 829 01:06:18,795 --> 01:06:20,957 [Narrator] The opposite was also true. 830 01:06:21,064 --> 01:06:24,501 A new exotic appeal existed in the child figure. 831 01:06:24,601 --> 01:06:26,797 The smaller-than-life love goddess. 832 01:06:27,904 --> 01:06:30,669 Carroll Baker in Baby Doll. 833 01:06:30,774 --> 01:06:33,209 Sue Lyon as Lolita. 834 01:06:33,310 --> 01:06:35,279 Tuesday Weld. 835 01:06:35,378 --> 01:06:37,040 Susan Strasberg. 836 01:06:37,147 --> 01:06:41,278 Hayley Mills in a scene from Tiger Bay. 837 01:06:58,435 --> 01:07:00,336 [Narrator] Perhaps the most charming... 838 01:07:00,437 --> 01:07:04,101 and certainly the most successful of all the childlike heroines... 839 01:07:04,207 --> 01:07:06,608 was Miss Audrey Hepburn. 840 01:07:06,710 --> 01:07:10,340 Her very appeal was both as woman and child. 841 01:07:11,548 --> 01:07:15,315 The Mouth of Truth. The legend is that if you're given to lying... 842 01:07:15,418 --> 01:07:19,150 and put your hand in there, it'll be bitten off. 843 01:07:19,255 --> 01:07:23,056 - Oh, what a horrid idea. - Let's see you do it. 844 01:07:47,884 --> 01:07:50,513 [Giggles] Let's see you do it. 845 01:07:53,356 --> 01:07:54,591 Sure. 846 01:08:08,138 --> 01:08:12,633 - [Screams] - [Screams] No! No! 847 01:08:12,742 --> 01:08:14,938 - [Screams] - Hello. 848 01:08:15,044 --> 01:08:19,038 You beast! It was perfectly all right! You were never hurt. 849 01:08:19,149 --> 01:08:21,584 I'm sorry. It was a joke. All right? 850 01:08:21,684 --> 01:08:24,677 - Oh, you never hurt your hand. - I'm sorry. I'm sorry. 851 01:08:24,788 --> 01:08:26,723 - Okay? - Yes. 852 01:08:26,823 --> 01:08:28,815 - All right. Let's go. Look out! - [Screams] 853 01:08:30,927 --> 01:08:35,023 [Narrator]As the '60s loomed, history continued to repeat itself. 854 01:08:35,131 --> 01:08:39,466 Room at the Top marked the beginning of a new period of frankness about sex. 855 01:08:39,717 --> 01:08:41,765 It's not that I don't want to. 856 01:08:42,100 --> 01:08:43,772 It's just... 857 01:08:43,873 --> 01:08:46,433 I suppose I'm scared. 858 01:08:46,670 --> 01:08:50,708 I do love you, Joe. I do. I'd do anything for you, Joe. Anything. 859 01:08:54,517 --> 01:08:57,487 Except what any girl will do for the man she loves. 860 01:08:59,088 --> 01:09:02,718 Joe, how much do you love me? 861 01:09:02,826 --> 01:09:05,523 Very much. 862 01:09:05,628 --> 01:09:07,756 About a million pounds' worth. 863 01:09:11,501 --> 01:09:13,936 Joe, be gentle with me. 864 01:09:34,023 --> 01:09:36,959 Come on, Susan. I think we better be going now. 865 01:09:38,572 --> 01:09:40,606 I don't want to go. 866 01:09:41,215 --> 01:09:43,292 I don't ever want to go. 867 01:09:45,935 --> 01:09:47,927 Isn't it super, Joe? 868 01:09:48,200 --> 01:09:50,233 Now we really belong to each other. 869 01:09:50,340 --> 01:09:53,504 Really and truly till death do us part. 870 01:09:55,144 --> 01:09:57,841 Wasn't it wonderful? 871 01:09:57,947 --> 01:10:03,147 Wasn't it absolutely the most wonderful thing that ever happened to you? 872 01:10:06,656 --> 01:10:09,285 - Wasn't it, Joe? - Yes. 873 01:10:10,505 --> 01:10:12,295 Come on. Let's go. 874 01:10:18,301 --> 01:10:22,170 [Narrator]Just as Clara Bow had symbolized the rebellion of the '20s... 875 01:10:22,272 --> 01:10:26,073 Brigitte Bardot was the image of a new generation's rebellion. 876 01:10:26,175 --> 01:10:30,545 She disrobed in her films as a child would disrobe - on impulse. 877 01:10:30,647 --> 01:10:33,776 And she brought the screen to a stage of nudity... 878 01:10:33,883 --> 01:10:37,115 such as had not been seen since the late 1920s in Europe. 879 01:10:38,221 --> 01:10:42,488 Oddly enough, the first acceptance of nudity on the screen for a star... 880 01:10:42,592 --> 01:10:44,493 was in 19 13. 881 01:10:44,594 --> 01:10:47,758 Annette Kellerman, the greatest woman athlete of her day... 882 01:10:47,864 --> 01:10:50,060 starred in Daughter of the Gods. 883 01:10:50,166 --> 01:10:53,295 But it was not until some 40 years later... 884 01:10:53,403 --> 01:10:55,929 that Marilyn Monroe posed for a calendar... 885 01:10:56,039 --> 01:11:01,034 and changed the entire concept of what a star could and could not do. 886 01:11:01,144 --> 01:11:03,807 Her studio was shocked, but the public... 887 01:11:03,913 --> 01:11:07,111 instead of rejecting, accepted Marilyn as she was. 888 01:11:08,618 --> 01:11:12,555 Within a few years, most of the love goddesses would conform. 889 01:11:12,655 --> 01:11:14,886 And even Ecstasy was to be made again... 890 01:11:14,991 --> 01:11:17,654 this time with Marla Moore. 891 01:11:19,345 --> 01:11:22,759 But nudity itself seemed not exciting enough. 892 01:11:23,239 --> 01:11:27,376 And with Europe in the lead, filmmakers took to shooting love scenes in the nude. 893 01:11:28,605 --> 01:11:30,870 Les Liaisons dangereuses. 894 01:11:32,875 --> 01:11:34,503 The Lovers. 895 01:11:34,611 --> 01:11:36,273 One Summer of Happiness. 896 01:11:36,379 --> 01:11:38,871 And God Created Woman. 897 01:11:40,617 --> 01:11:43,348 - [Door Opens] - [Narrator] Combinations of beauty, violence... 898 01:11:43,453 --> 01:11:45,354 sex and nudity... 899 01:11:45,455 --> 01:11:48,118 became the formula of the '60s. 900 01:11:55,798 --> 01:12:00,429 In 30 years, the movies had come full circle. 901 01:12:00,536 --> 01:12:05,270 If anything, the treatment of sex was more overt than ever before. 902 01:12:05,375 --> 01:12:09,005 But England and the United States held out a little longer. 903 01:12:10,046 --> 01:12:15,110 That is, until they could present sex under the safer guise of satire. 904 01:12:21,257 --> 01:12:26,560 The picture is Expresso Bongo, starring Laurence Harvey and Sylvia Syms. 905 01:12:26,663 --> 01:12:29,258 It was produced in England by Val Guest... 906 01:12:29,365 --> 01:12:32,130 a fine comedy that won exceptional acclaim. 907 01:12:34,704 --> 01:12:37,299 ♪ You can look at the goods but don't touch ♪ 908 01:12:38,508 --> 01:12:41,000 ♪ Oh, the goods are the goods but don't touch ♪ 909 01:12:42,512 --> 01:12:46,005 ♪ You wouldn't walk in Cartier's and touch every stone ♪ 910 01:12:46,115 --> 01:12:49,677 ♪ You wouldn't stroke a Mayfair mink that wasn't your own ♪ 911 01:12:49,786 --> 01:12:53,052 ♪ Which means unless you're serious just leave the loot alone ♪ 912 01:12:53,156 --> 01:12:55,091 ♪ You can hover like an eagle ♪ 913 01:12:55,191 --> 01:12:57,160 ♪ But until you make it legal ♪ 914 01:12:57,260 --> 01:12:59,889 ♪ You can look at the goods but don't touch ♪♪ 915 01:13:02,865 --> 01:13:05,994 [Narrator] We could not leave this history of sex... 916 01:13:06,102 --> 01:13:08,799 without a tribute to those many movie makers... 917 01:13:08,905 --> 01:13:12,364 who, faced with no other choice but to use a symbol... 918 01:13:12,475 --> 01:13:14,808 have done so memorably. 919 01:13:14,911 --> 01:13:17,779 Among them, Busby Berkeley's "Honeymoon Hotel." 920 01:13:28,918 --> 01:13:31,560 Ernst Lubitsch's The Love Parade. 921 01:13:31,801 --> 01:13:34,096 [Cannons Firing] 922 01:13:34,197 --> 01:13:36,257 Do you hear those cannons? 923 01:13:36,365 --> 01:13:39,563 Yes. Isn't it glorious? 924 01:13:43,656 --> 01:13:47,275 - Our bridal music. - [Cannons Firing] 925 01:13:50,346 --> 01:13:52,542 [Narrator] Carol Reed's The Stars Look Down. 926 01:13:59,555 --> 01:14:01,854 D. W. Griffith's The White Rose. 927 01:14:16,239 --> 01:14:19,471 But perhaps the best of all was DeMille's Cleopatra. 928 01:14:25,548 --> 01:14:27,483 There's no one like you. 929 01:14:28,518 --> 01:14:31,454 [Narrator] It starred Claudette Colbert and Henry Wilcoxon. 930 01:14:51,970 --> 01:14:54,303 Who else but Cecil B. DeMille... 931 01:14:54,421 --> 01:14:57,391 would have added to a simple seduction scene... 932 01:14:57,506 --> 01:15:01,170 a hundred extras, dancing girls... 933 01:15:01,320 --> 01:15:03,538 four rows of galley slaves... 934 01:15:03,820 --> 01:15:05,789 and a drum? 935 01:15:43,659 --> 01:15:45,651 ♪♪ [Drum Beats] 936 01:15:49,699 --> 01:15:51,634 ♪♪ [Drum Beats] 937 01:15:55,671 --> 01:15:57,765 ♪♪ [Drum Beats] 938 01:16:00,776 --> 01:16:02,802 ♪♪ [Drum Beats] 939 01:16:06,082 --> 01:16:08,051 ♪♪ [Drum Beats] 940 01:16:10,686 --> 01:16:12,655 ♪♪ [Drum Beats] 941 01:16:16,158 --> 01:16:18,127 ♪♪ [Drum Beats] 942 01:16:24,606 --> 01:16:27,940 [Narrator] Our history is over-temporarily. 943 01:16:28,902 --> 01:16:33,206 To all the beautiful love goddesses of the screen, thank you.78937

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