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Marilyn Monroe's Best Movie Helped Break A Hollywood Rule We All Take For Granted 66 Years Later

Some Like It Hot isn't just an important film because it's a one-of-a-kind comedy, but because it helped bring about a form of self-censorship that dominated decades of Hollywood filmmaking. Directed ...
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Feature: New book ‘The Naughty Bits’ gets into Hollywood censorship during the Hays Code

The Hays Code, developed by Will H. Hays but most notably supervised by Joseph Breen, had profound impact on the world of American cinema through it’s elimination of any concepts that didn’t match the ...
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Remembering Hollywood's Hays Code, 40 Years On

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 ...
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That time Montgomery Clift, Liz Taylor & Tennessee Williams made one of the gayest movies of the Hays Code era

Elizabeth Taylor, in a scene from the movie “Suddenly Last Summer,” adapted from a play by Tennessee Williams and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz for Columbia Pictures. (Getty Images) The following ...