PART OF A LINCOLN FILM SERIES: ANYTHING GOES!
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Join us at the Lincoln Theatre for our film series Anything Goes! Sinful Cinema of the Pre-Code Era.
Before the enactment of the Hays Code in 1934, filmmakers got away with content that they wouldn't be able to return to for several decades. Sex, violence, and a general flouting of social norms abound in these films -- sometimes they seem quaint now, and other times shocking. Come see four of the movies that brought down the hammer on Hollywood and caused the code to become the law of the land!
July 9: Design for Living
Painter George (Gary Cooper) and playwright Thomas (Fredric March) are two Americans sharing a Paris apartment, bohemian-style. They're also rivals for the affection of commercial artist Gilda (Miriam Hopkins). When the plucky Gilda moves in with them, she does so with the agreement that there will be "no funny business" -- an agreement that soon becomes untenable. As the rivalry between George and Thomas heats up even further, each man seeks to make his move as soon as the other turns his back.
The newly-formed National Legion of Decency was swift to condemn the film due to the layers of polyamory-tinged innuendo, and the film was banned from exhibition within a year of its original release.
"In Design for Living, Ernst Lubitsch crafted one of the most humorous pieces of the pre-code era, and also one of the most controversial." —Jose Solis, PopMatters
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch
Starring Gary Cooper, Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Edward Everett Horton
United States | English | 1933 | Romantic Comedy | 91 minutes | Passed
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