to 1954, the code was closely associated with Joseph Breen, the administrator appointed by Hays to enforce the code in Hollywood. The film industry followed...
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Pre-Code Hollywood was an era in the American film industry that occurred between the widespread adoption of sound in film in the late 1920s and the enforcement...
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one hundred cities across the nation empowered local censorship boards. In 1915, the US Supreme Court determined in Mutual Film Corporation v. Industrial...
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Russell, first in the 1941 film The Outlaw and also in the 1953 film The French Line. The film was found objectionable under the Hays Code because of Russell's...
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Satan (disambiguation) (redirect from Satan (film))
seventh installment of Louis Feuillade's 1915–16 French serial film, Les Vampires Satanás, a 2007 Colombian film Satan, an English heavy-metal band "Satan"...
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film) The Wedding (1972 film) Wedding in White (1972) The Wedding March (1915 film) The Wedding March (1929 film) The Wedding March (1934 film) The Wedding...
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National Legion of Decency (redirect from United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' Office for Film and Broadcasting)
and prior. List of films condemned by the Legion of Decency Hays Code – a secular American censorship code in effect during much of the same period Payne...
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The Cheat is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by George Abbott and starring Tallulah Bankhead and Harvey Stephens. The film is a remake of...
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This is a list of films that are or have been at one time or another banned in the United States; including films banned in some American cities or states...
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singer, but living in a one-room apartment in San Francisco, and the moral code of the time frowned upon a woman entering a man's bedroom. Murphy's invention...
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Rollins Pass (redirect from Old Ute Trail)
September 27, 1915, Mart Wolf, owner of the Elk Creek Saloon, set fire to his establishment in the town of Arrow on the west side of Rollins Pass in the hopes...
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(1915) The Daughter of the People (1915) Old Dutch (1915) Alias Jimmy Valentine (1915) Money (1915) The Fairy and the Waif (1915) M'Liss (1915) The Fight...
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Universal City, California (category 1915 establishments in California)
were filmed on the Oak Crest property in the San Fernando Valley. The Oak Crest Ranch is where Laemmle filmed the western At Old Fort Dearborn. The Providencia...
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American Pre-Code mystery film directed by Irving Cummings and starring Warner Baxter, Lois Moran and Gilbert Emery. It was the first Charlie Chan film to be...
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Bulgarian animated science fiction film directed by Rumen Petkov and produced by the Sofia Animation Studio. The 72-minute movie is a science fiction...
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Lon Chaney (category American male film actors)
that five of the key voices in the film (the ventriloquist, the old woman, a parrot, the dummy and the girl) were his own. Makeup in the early days of...
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What the...?! Neves, Called Dead in Fall, Denies It — headline from San Francisco Examiner, May 9, 1936 American Martin K. Speckter (June 14, 1915 – February 14...
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Nigel Bruce (category British male film actors)
14 films of the series, and over 200 radio programs of The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Although Watson often appears to be the older of the two...
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Anna Q. Nilsson (redirect from The Flash in the Night (1911 film))
companies. Films of special note are Regeneration (1915) Seven Keys to Baldpate (1917), Soldiers of Fortune (1919), The Toll Gate and The Luck of the Irish...
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The 39 Steps is a 2008 British television adventure thriller feature-length adaptation of the 1915 John Buchan novel The Thirty-Nine Steps produced by...
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Dishonored is a 1931 American pre-Code romantic spy film directed and edited by Josef von Sternberg, who also co-wrote the film with Daniel N. Rubin. It was...
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The decade of the 2000s in film involved many significant developments in the filmmaking industries around the world, especially in the technologies used...
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Leigh (name) (category Surnames of Old English origin)
the Stephen King novel Christine and its film adaptation Sir Leigh Teabing, fictional character in the popular 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code and the 2006...
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Katie Johnson (English actress) (category English film actresses)
Wilberforce (The Old Lady) How to Murder a Rich Uncle (1957) – Alice (final film role) – (released posthumously, in June 1957) Film academy awards, The Times...
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Charles Stanton Ogle (category American male film actors)
1865 – October 11, 1940) was an American stage and silent-film actor and lawyer. He was the first actor to portray Frankenstein's monster in a motion...
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Anya (section People with the given name Anya)
television series The 100 Anya Alstreim, in the anime series Code Geass Anya Amasova, in the film The Spy Who Loved Me Anya Borzakovskaya, in the graphic novel...
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of feature films distributed by the Triangle Film Corporation between 1915 and 1919. The company also released a number of short comedy films. Munden, Kenneth...
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in the original film version. This MGM release, the third screen adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's 1915 novel, was written by Bryan Forbes from the novel...
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Ina Claire (category American film actresses)
Mulhammer in T. S. Eliot's The Confidential Clerk (1954). She made her film debut in Cecil B. DeMille's The Wild Goose Chase (1915). She is best remembered...
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Lorne Greene (redirect from The Voice of Doom)
February 1915 – 11 September 1987) was a Canadian actor, musician, singer and radio personality. His notable television roles include Ben Cartwright on the Western...
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