Entertainment & Sports
May 13, 2022
Stream it Tonight! Frisco Jenny (1932)
The Code would have prohibited all of the candid material about prostitution in Frisco Jenny. But movies released between 1930 and 1934 are in a sweet spot and many of them contain graphic discussion of subjects that were erased from the screen after 1934.
Paul Bergman
Professor Emeritus
UCLA School of Law
Email: bergman@law.ucla.edu
Paul continues teaching evidence.
Michael Asimow
Professor
UCLA School of Law
Email: asimow@law.ucla.edu
Michael is Dean's Executive professor of law at Santa Clara Law School, teaching contracts as well as law and popular culture.
Why watch? Actual footage from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake punctuates this “women’s weepy” in which the DA doesn’t know that he’s prosecuting his mother.
Bombastic San Francisco D.A. Dan Reynolds (Donald Cook) denounces accused killer Jenny Sandoval (Ruth Chatterton) to the jury. He argues that Sandoval has “had a hand in every slimy enterprise in the city” and is “a stench in the nostrils of society who has no redeeming trait in her...
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