Dames
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Uneven screwball musical in which a puritanical millionaire (Hugh Herbert) tries to stop a Broadway revue (starring Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler), unaware that a dim relative (Guy Kibbee) is being blackmailed by a showgirl (Joan Blondell) into financing the show. Director Ray Enright gets some easy laughs at the expense of moral hypocrites but the real fun is in Berkeley's staging of "The Girl at the Ironing Board," "I Only Have Eyes for You" and the finale, "Dames." Stylized violence, sexual innuendo and comic inebriation. A-III (nr) 1934
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The classifications are as follows:
- A-I -- general patronage;
- A-II -- adults and adolescents;
- A-III -- adults;
- A-IV**
- L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. L replaces the previous classification, A-IV.
- O -- morally offensive.
** Discontinued classification. All archived movies that were originally in the A-IV category are now classified as L.