Collective title from container. Disc 1. Red-headed woman: Jean Harlow, Chester Morris, Lewis Stone, Leila Hyams, Una Merkel. Waterloo Bridge: Mae Clarke, Douglass Montgomery, Kent Douglass [Douglass Montgomery], Doris Lloyd, Bette Davis, Enid Bennett. Disc 2. Baby face: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Donald Cook, Alphonse Ethier, Henry Kolker, Theresa Harris, Margaret Lindsay. Originally released as motion pictures between 1931-1933. Red-headed woman from the book by Katharine Brush ; Waterloo Bridge from the stage play by Robert E. Sherwood. Some production credits taken from other sources. Special features: new introduction by Robert Osborne ; 'Baby Face' theatrical trailer.
Contents:
(1933, 72 min). Baby face [original theatrical release] / Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. & the Vitaphone Corp. present ; directed by Alfred E. Green ; screen play by Gene Markey & Kathryn Scola ; story by Mark Canfield (1932, 79 min.) -- Waterloo bridge / Carl Laemmle presents ; produced by Carl Laemmle, Jr. ; Universal Pictures Corp. ; from the stage play by Robert E. Sherwood ; adaptation and added dialogue, Benn Levy ; screen play, Tom Reed ; directed by James Whale (1931, 81 min.) -- Disc two. Baby face [prerelease version] / Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. & the Vitaphone Corp. present ; directed by Alfred E. Green ; screen play by Gene Markey & Kathryn Scola ; story by Mark Canfield ; [produced by William LeBaron, Raymond Griffith] (1933, 76 min) ; Baby face [original theatrical release] / Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. & the Vitaphone Corp. present ; directed by Alfred E. Green ; screen play by Gene Markey & Kathryn Scola ; story by Mark Canfield (1933, 72 min).
Summary:
In the early 1930's, before Hollywood began enforcing a self-imposed Production Code, many films allowed for extraordinary frankness including nudity, adultery and prostitution. In this restored and remastered three-movie collection, three daring young actresses are featured in racy, riveting star vehicles. Jean Harlow is a red-headed secretary who hooks the company's married boss, while carrying on with chauffeur Charles Boyer. A young soldier is forced to give up Mae Clarke when his well-to-do family learns she's a prostitute, in Waterloo Bridge. Finally baby-faced Barbara Stanwyck sleeps her way up the corporate ladder in a New York bank, not caring who gets hurt.
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