Not necessarily showing a full sex scene. Just one where it was clear they'd had sex, but the fact of it being before marriage wasn't anything noteworthy?
― Alba, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 18:58 (twelve years ago)
I'm not sure, but there might be a difference between characters who don't find it noteworthy vs. the film/filmmakers. (I'm imagining a hypothetical film made in the 1960s whose raison d'etre would've been to depict the changing attitudes of the times.)
― jaymc, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 19:26 (twelve years ago)
knocked up
― zero dark (s1ocki), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 19:30 (twelve years ago)
have no idea but i suspect there are probably pre-code examples of this?
― administrator galina (Matt P), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 19:31 (twelve years ago)
It's also hard to tell in retrospect what a film thinks is noteworthy. Like, is the sex in Breathless being depicted as illicit?
― jim, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 19:34 (twelve years ago)
Otto Preminger's The Moon is Blue (1953) is generally considered to be the first American movie to break at least some of the cinematic taboos surrounding pre-marital sex:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_Is_Blue
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 19:35 (twelve years ago)
not the first but John & Mary from 1969 comes to mind
― buzza, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 19:39 (twelve years ago)
That was the first thing that came to my mind too. Or The Sin of Nora Moran.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 19:41 (twelve years ago)
I think it's very heavily implied if not made crystal clear that Bogart nails Dorothy Malone's bookshop proprietor in The Big Sleep and very little is made of it.
― Gollum: "Hot, Ready and Smeagol!" (Phil D.), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 19:43 (twelve years ago)
I guess there must have been some pre-Hays Code movies which played fast and loose, but can't think of one at the moment.
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 19:54 (twelve years ago)
This site http://www.filmsite.org/sexualfilms2.html would suggest 'Our Dancing Daughters' from 1928 starring Joan Crawford.
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 19:59 (twelve years ago)
as noted, dozens of pre-hayes code stuff, pick one, how about this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDfRzke3R9E
― unprepared guitar (Edward III), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 20:12 (twelve years ago)
it takes a real man to tame this kind of female lol
― unprepared guitar (Edward III), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 20:14 (twelve years ago)