American cinema can be divided into three eras of censorship, and William H. Hays played a part in all of them. The first era, wild and sexy, stirred a backlash to young Hollywood that allowed Hays to ...

The post Sex in Cinema: Creative Ways Filmmakers Skirted the Hays Code appeared first on Consequence. After a string of scandals rocked young Hollywood, the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors ...

Now and then, someone gets their back up about the immorality coming out of Hollywood and suggests reinstating the Hays Code, and there is literally no reason to do so. The latest diatribe to make the ...

Two years into his tenure as President of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Will H. Hays was in front of Congress. Not for movie-related business, but for accepting and then ...

From 1934 to 1968 the Code and Rating Administration — popularly known as the Hays Office or the Breen Office — wrapped a kind of moral comforter around Hollywood’s movies, enforcing what has gone ...

For more than three decades, the code applied rigid moral scrutiny to films, banning everything from interracial dating to "lustful kissing." It... Remembering Hollywood's Hays Code, 40 Years On When ...

Will Hays was known to many Hoosiers as the "Son of Sullivan," but those in Hollywood knew him as the "movie morals czar." William Harrison Hays was born Nov. 5, 1879 in Sullivan, Ind. After ...

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How do you shoot a sex scene amid the coronavirus pandemic? Watching "Casablanca" could help. Filmmakers in the United Kingdom are being encouraged to watch Hays Code productions such as “Casablanca” ...

The internet is in a tailspin thanks to Penn Badgley, the star of Netflix drama You, who announced on his podcast that when making the newest season, which recently came out, he asked to limit his sex ...

Social media companies continued to assert their power over the political sphere this week, with Twitter temporarily suspending the Trump campaign’s ability to post until it removed a clip of a Fox ...