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    the Hays Code, after Will H. Hays, president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA) from 1922 to 1945. Under Hays's leadership...
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    the Motion Picture Production Code censorship guidelines (popularly known as the Hays Code) in 1934. Although the Hays Code was adopted in 1930, oversight...
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    Committee from 1918 to 1921, Hays managed the successful 1920 presidential campaign of Warren G. Harding. Harding then appointed Hays to his cabinet as his first...
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  • censorship agency, the Hays Code, which brought an end to nudity and risqué content in films produced by the main Hollywood studios. The Code was adopted in 1930...
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    appeared barely clothed. Hays became outraged at the steamy pictures circulating in newspapers around the country. The original Hays Code contained an often...
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  • violated the Hays Code, as the adulterer was insufficiently punished. When director de Toth found out, he met with two senior Hays Code members, whom...
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  • enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code (Hays Code) censorship guidelines. Although the Code was adopted in 1930, oversight was poor and it...
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  • academic research involving queer theory or gender studies. In 1930, the Hays Code was established, which regulated the content of films and prohibited the...
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  • the ESRB, respectively. In effect as of November 1968, following the Hays Code of the classical Hollywood cinema era, the MPA rating system is one of...
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  • into conformity with the Hays Code. Screenwriter Casey Robinson believed the project was hopeless because of the Hays Code. Producer Hal B. Wallis said...
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  • University in Hays, Kansas Walter Hays School in Palo Alto, California Hay's Galleria, a shopping mall and tourist attraction in London Hays Code, a set of...
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  • studios adopted a series of guidelines known as the "Hays Code", after its creator Will H. Hays. Hays was the head of the Motion Pictures Producers and Distributors...
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    existed since the early 20th century but it was not until 1968, when the Hays Code restrictions were relaxed, that revisionism finally supplanted the traditional...
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    approval from the Motion Picture Production Code (Hays Code) because it features cross-dressing. The code had been gradually weakening in its scope since...
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    in the creation of the Motion Picture Production Code in 1930. This code, also known as the Hays Code, was replaced by a voluntary film rating system in...
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  • In the United States, before the enforcement of the Hays Code, some cartoon shorts contained humor that was aimed at adult audience members rather than...
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    elsewhere set up film censorship boards to censor films. In the 1930s, the Hays Code brought an end in Hollywood films to nudity in all its forms. To remain...
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  • Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America who applied the Hays Code to film production. Breen was the youngest of three sons born to Mary...
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  • video games Code (audio standard), or ΧΟΔΕ, high-fidelity audio disc brand developed by T-Bone Burnett Motion Picture Production Code or Hays Code, the voluntary...
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    Distributors of America (MPPDA). The organisation, which applied the Hays Code for film censorship, also disapproved of the work of Dwain Esper, the...
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    inspired by the success of Promises! Promises! This film challenged the Hays Code, and the same year, she appeared in the June 1964 Playboy magazine with...
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    imaginable". Although she was toned down in the mid-1930s as a result of the Hays Code to appear more demure, she became one of the world's best-known and most...
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    in yellowface. One biographer believes that the choice was due to the Hays Code anti-miscegenation rules requiring the wife of a white actor, Paul Muni...
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  • over films like this eventually led to the passage of the Hays Code in 1930. The Hays Code is one of the entertainment industry's earliest set of guidelines...
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    censorship that dogged her screenplays after Hollywood began enforcing the Hays Code. Tira sings, struts and gyrates in the sideshow of Big Bill Barton's Wonder...
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    at the Production Code Administration that he had to cast an actress with developed breasts or he would run afoul of the Hays Code. Producer James B....
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  • 1970s. After 1934, the Hays code gave filmmakers in the United States little leeway to release risky material, until the code was replaced by the Motion...
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  • play was These Three directed by Wyler and released in 1936. Because the Hays Code, in effect at the time of the original film's production, would never...
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    the introduction of the Production Code in 1934, which enforced regulations on film content. However, the Hays Code, a more lenient precursor, called for...
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    particular was once popularly known as the Hays Code, but it and later revisions are now commonly called the Production Code. Depression economics and changing...
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