Detail View: Movie Posters: The Good Bad Girl
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The Good Bad Girl.jpg
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Movie Title:
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The Good Bad Girl
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Movie Genre:
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Romance
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Decade:
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Decade 1930
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Year:
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1931
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Studio-Distributor:
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Columbia
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IMDb Link:
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021921
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Stars:
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Mae Clarke,�James Hall,�Marie Prevost�
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Director:
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Roy William Neill�(as R. William Neill)
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Caption:
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The Good Bad Girl (Columbia, 1931). One Sheet (27 X 41) Style A. , Pretty Marcia Cameron (Mae Clarke) has a problem: in an attempt to put her sordid past as a gangsters moll behind her, she marries straight-laced and dependable Bob Henderson (James Hall). Everything is coming up roses until her previous beau, gangster Dapper Dan Tyler (Robert Ellis), makes a break from prison and re-enters her life. Convinced that Marcia is the rat who tipped off the cops about him, Tyler seeks revenge, leading to an emotional - and deadly - confrontation, complicated by the presence of Marcias infant child! , With this film, Columbia tried to craft a gangster picture - the hot and emergent genre of the day - in a way that would connect with female audience members, hence the inclusion of such soap opera elements as the unwed mother, the bad boy former lover versus the good boy husband, and the attempt at what was known at the time as regeneration, or the concept of the criminal - in this case Marcia - who seeks re-entrance into lawful society. The regeneration plotline was a common one in early cinema, as it played to the popular sentiment of social reformation, particularly of the working and lower classes, which swept the United States during the early days of cinema. Like The Public Enemy (1931), the inherent message here is that Marcia is really a good girl who just made some bad choices and was influenced by bad people, not that she herself is bad and deserving of condemnation. That her ultimate reformation is achieved without her death, unlike Powers, is one of the main differences between a mans picture like The Public Enemy and a womans picture like The Good Bad Girl. The lovely - and exceptionally rare - Style A one sheet shows star Mae Clarke, perhaps best known for her roles in The Public Enemy (1931) and Frankenstein (1931), in the arms of her co-star, James Hall. A unique find, this is the first time Heritage has offered this highly attractive piece. P
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%G
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ModelVersion:
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4
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RecordVersion:
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4
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Keywords:
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1930s
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Filesize:
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251191 Bytes
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Thumbnail:
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None
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Filename:
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The Good Bad Girl.jpg
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image/jpeg
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Imagesize:
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768 x 1024
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