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Women & Cocaine - Pre-code Hollywood 1930-34

Siltavuorenranta 18, 00170 Helsinki
WHS Teatteri Union

From Hollywood to Helsinki – via London, audacious and outrageous films of pre-code cinema 1930-34 will be performed at WHS Teatteri Union in January.

From Hollywood to Helsinki – via London, audacious and outrageous films of pre-code cinema 1930-34 will be performed at WHS Teatteri Union in January.

Women & Cocaine is a London based film series that celebrates the pioneering women of pre-code cinema, who rebelled against suffocating Victorian standards of femininity and pushed boundaries with their newfound economic and social independence. Pre code refers to the period between 1930-1934, beginning with the end of silent cinema and ending at the introduction of mandatory film censorship.
During these four short years, a woman’s place was no longer at home and in the kitchen, it was out in the workforce by day, and in the clubs at night. Hollywood took note of this new image, and capitalized on women’s desire to see themselves represented on screen, and what followed were some of the most exciting, unapologetic and sexually liberated depictions of women ever seen on screen.

My father warned me about men & booze, but he never mentioned a word about women & cocaine”
– Tallulah Bankhead

 

WHS Teatteri Union

20.-21.1.2023

Fri 18.00-22.00

Sat 15.00-20.30

 

Program:

Friday 20.1.

18.00 Of Human Bondage (1934)
*Bette Davis*, duration 1.23

20.00 Rain (1932)
*Joan Crawford*, duration 1.34

 

Saturday 21.1.

15.00 Queen Christina (1933)
*Greta Garbo*, duration 1.39

17.30 Three on The Match (1932)
*Ann Drovak, Bette Davis, Joan Blondell*, duration 1.03

19.00 She Done Him Wrong (1933)
*Mae West*, duration 1.06

 

Tickets 10€/film, day ticket 15€, all films 25€ 

Age limit 18 yrs