Cast of
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood

About Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood

A look at the forces that shaped Pre-Code Hollywood and brought about the strict enforcement of the Hays Code in 1934.

Full Cast of Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood

Valerie Spencer
plays Self - Narrator (voice)

Jonathan Kuntz
plays Self

Jeffrey Vance
plays Self

Mark Vieira
plays Self

Joan Crawford
plays Various Roles (archive footage)

Ann Dvorak
plays Vivian Revere Kirkwood (archive footage)

Clark Gable
plays Various Roles (archive footage)

Greta Garbo
plays Queen Christina (archive footage)

Jean Harlow
plays Various Roles (archive footage)

Miriam Hopkins
plays Ivy Pearson (archive footage)

Norma Shearer
plays Various Roles (archive footage)

Barbara Stanwyck
plays Various Roles (archive footage)

Mae West
plays Tira (archive footage)

Warren William
plays Various Roles (archive footage)

William H. Hays
plays Self (archive footage)

Walter Huston
plays Various Roles (archive footage)

Wallace Ford
plays Detective Ed Fitzpatrick (archive footage)

Paul Muni
plays James Allen (archive footage)

Joseph I. Breen
plays Self (archive footage)

Joel McCrea
plays John Neville Jr. (archive footage)

Constance Bennett
plays Valerie West (archive footage)

Myrna Loy
plays Gertie Waxted (archive footage)

Loretta Young
plays Madeleine Walters West (archive footage)

Ruth Chatterton
plays Alison Drake (archive footage)


Crew of Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood