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I've been watching some pre-code (before 1934) movies lately. The frank enjoyment of being human in those movies is quite refreshing.

One interesting thing about them is even the beautiful stars often have bad teeth :-) Dentistry in those days wasn't very good.

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Just happened to watch The Front page tonight which was made in 1931.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021890/

The innuendo is pretty strong and the characters are mostly terrible people and the plot pretty dark.

But also very witty, fast paced, and funny. Some really interesting shots, too, with moving and panning cameras, or things happening in both foreground and background.

No need to go to 1934 for that, just look at David Bowie. His teeth were crooked until he got them fixed in his 50s (and supposedly ruined his vocal signature). Or even more recently, Hugh Grant's teeth were pretty bad in 4 Weddings... and Notting Hill.

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