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1. Baby Face: why it matters in film history
Mon May 11, 2026, 11:26 AM
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(Wikipedia): Marketed with the salacious tagline "She had it and made it pay", the film's open discussion of sex made it one of the most notorious films of the Pre-Code Hollywood era and helped bring the era to a close; beginning in 1934, enforcement of the code became stricter. Mark A. Vieira, author of Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood, has said: "Baby Face was certainly one of the top 10 films that caused the Production Code to be enforced." In late 2005, Baby Face was included in the annual selection of 25 motion pictures to be added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.

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