Studio executives at Warner Bros. tried to turn a reluctant Bette Davis into a platinum-blonde Greta Garbo-style glamour icon for Fashions of 1934. Davis recalled in her autobiography The Lonely Life that she was "glamourized beyond recognition" and felt like she was wearing "somebody dressed up in mother's clothes".

The 1934 musical comedy Fashions of 1934 hit theatres on February 14, 1934—just five months before Hollywood strictly enforced the infamous Hays Code censorship rules. Because it slipped through during the final days of the "Pre-Code" era, the film is packed with cheeky dialogue, con-artist scams, and a legendary Busby Berkeley musical number featuring female dancers wearing nothing but strategically placed ostrich feathers. Once the censors officially took over in July 1934, showing that much bare skin and saucy innuendo became strictly illegal in American cinema for the next three decades!

The jaw-dropping "Spin a Little Web of Dreams" sequence in Fashions of 1934 featured 200 chorus girls and 400 ostrich feathers costing a wild $10,000 at the time!

Despite both having prolific, legendary Hollywood careers, the pre-Code musical comedy Fashions of 1934 marks the only time Bette Davis and William Powell ever appeared on screen together.