The Love Goddesses

19651965
1h 27m

The Love Goddesses (1965)

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' po... Read allThis 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... Read allThis 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), blendin... Read all

Director
- Saul J. Turell
Writers
- Graeme Ferguson
- Saul J. Turell
Stars
- Carl King(voice)
- Agnes Ayres(archive footage)
- Theda Bara(archive footage)

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Ingrid Bergman in The Love Goddesses (1965)

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Selfas Self
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Selfas Self
(archive footage)

Brigitte Bardot

Selfas Self
(archive footage)

Richard Barthelmess

Selfas Self
(archive footage)

Selfas Self
(archive footage)

Selfas Self
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Selfas Self
(archive footage)

Selfas Self
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Selfas Self
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Maurice Chevalier

Selfas Self
(archive footage)

Montgomery Clift

Selfas Self
(archive footage)

Claudette Colbert

Selfas Self
(archive footage)

Selfas Self
(archive footage)

Selfas Self
(archive footage)

Selfas Self
(archive footage)

Selfas Self
(archive footage)

Selfas Self
(archive footage)

Director
- Saul J. Turell
Writers
- Graeme Ferguson
- Saul J. Turell
All cast & crew
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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. —Kelly

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Taglines
- "The Love Goddesses" is the story of sex in the movies.
Genre
- Documentary
Parents guide

Goofs
The narrator erroneously refers to Mickey Rooney as Andy Hardy, a character he first played in 1937 in "A Family Affair".

Connections
Features The Cheat (1915)

Soundtracks
Can-Can
(uncredited)
from "Orphée aux enfers (Orpheus in the Underworld)"
Music by Jacques Offenbach
From Die Herrin von Atlantis (1932)

Top review

8/10

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One of the great docos ever made with excellent clips from films over 70 years of cinema.....and some absolutely impossible to see in the 21 st century, this is a must for all aficionados of silent and 30s female spectacle. Part of a series of film history docos like HAROLD LLOYD's WORLD OF COMEDY or MGMs BIG PARADE OF LAUGHTER this was about the women and their Hollywood gorgeousness. Very successful in 1965 upon release and never been seen much since.....the world changed a lot the next year, and more so the year after, this last stop before psychedelia and rock took over is a valentine to Paramount and Fox's female stars. Fascinating and quite revealing, literally.

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Release date
- March 3, 1965 (United States)
Country of origin
- United States
Language
- English
Also known as
- The Love Goddesses: A History of Sex in the Cinema
Production companies
- Paramount Pictures
- Walter Reade
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Runtime
1 hour 27 minutes
Color
- Black and White
Sound mix
- Mono

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