Mick LaSalle Discusses Miriam Hopkins, Norma Shearer, Barbara Stanwyck, and Ruth Chatterton
Mick LaSalle, the author of Complicated Women and Dangerous Men, on Pre-Code actresses Norma Shearer, Miriam Hopkins, Ruth Chatterton, and Barbara Stanwyck.
The clip is described as "raw interview footage" for the 2003 Turner Classic Movies documentary Complicated Women.
Clip posted by LaSalle himself as Precodehollywood.
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I wish he or someone else would discuss Nancy Carroll.
Absolutely. Nancy Carroll should be discussed. And why not Carole Lombard? Ann Harding? Kay Francis? They were all making pre-code movies in the early 1930s, and they could be as saucy and risque as the best of them. What am I saying? They WERE the best of them.
Nancy Carroll was the best. And Louise Brooks, too. Too bad she didn’t make many pre-code talkies or she would have been the greatest of them all.
Sorry. The best pre-Code actress was Ruth Chatterton. Check her out in “Female.”