The one man most responsible for popularizing “Pre-code” movies — those racy early talkies turned out by Hollywood before the Production Code Authority cracked down, largely at the behest of the ...

Complicated Women: Documentary. Narrated by Jane Fonda. 5 and 7:30 p.m. Tuesday on Turner Classic Movies. Imagine what today's Hollywood actresses would give for a part as juicy as Frances Dee's in ...

About 20 years ago I was in a kind of partnership with another film historian who told me that, no, there wasn’t a market for a book on pre-code movies. I can only wonder what he thinks today after ...