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The Love Goddesses (1965)

87 min  -  Documentary  -   3 March 1965 (USA)
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This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the silver screen... See full summary »

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Saul J. Turell
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Cast

Credited cast:
Carl King Carl King ...
Narrator (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Agnes Ayres Agnes Ayres ...
Herself (archive footage)
Theda Bara ...
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Brigitte Bardot ...
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Richard Barthelmess ...
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Ingrid Bergman ...
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Clara Bow ...
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Clive Brook Clive Brook ...
Himself (archive footage)
Louise Brooks ...
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Horst Buchholz ...
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Maurice Chevalier ...
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Montgomery Clift ...
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Claudette Colbert ...
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Gary Cooper ...
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Joan Crawford ...
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This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the silver screen. It shows how the movie industry changed its depiction of sex and actresses' portrayal of sex from the silent movie era to the present. Classic scenes are shown from the silent movie, True Heart Susie, starring Lillian Gish, to Love Me Tonight (1932), blending sex and sophistication, starring Jeanette MacDonald (pre-Nelson Eddy) and to Elizabeth Taylor in, A Place in the Sun (1951), plus much , much more. Written by Kelly  

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Femme Fatale | Female Nudity | Beauty | Nudity | Dream Girl  | See more »

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Country:

USA

Language:

English

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Also Known As:

The Love Goddesses: A History of Sex in the Cinema See more »

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Goofs

Factual errors: The narrator erroneously refers to Mickey Rooney as Andy Hardy, a character he first played in 1937 in "A Family Affair". See more »

Connections

Features Clash by Night (1952) See more »

Soundtracks

"A Woman Needs Something Like That"
Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Lorenz Hart
Performed by Joseph Cawthorn and Jeanette MacDonald
From Love Me Tonight See more »