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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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    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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    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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  • film into conformity with the Hays Code. Screenwriter Casey Robinson believed the project was hopeless because of the Code. Producer Hal B. Wallis said...
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  • Administration and passage of the Motion Picture Production Code, also known as Hays Code. The Hays Code was in use from 1934 until 1968 when it was abandoned...
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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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  • painter William B. Hays (1844–1912), Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Will H. Hays (1879–1954), RNC chair, postmaster general, Hays Code film industry self-censorship...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    "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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    was at least partly due to the limitations on the genre imposed by the Hays Code, which was abandoned in favor of the Motion Picture Association of America...
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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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    the time of its U.S. publication. Owing to restrictions imposed by the Hays Code (1934–68), Kubrick and producer James B. Harris were compelled to tone...
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    bust imaginable". She was toned down in the mid-1930s as a result of the Hays Code to appear more modest, and has become one of the world's best-known and...
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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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  • 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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    1929's Pandora's Box between Louise Brooks and Alice Roberts. After the Hays Code in 1930, most references to homosexuality in films were censored under...
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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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  • old Shirley Mills. The film bypassed the onscreen nudity ban under the Hays Code by being produced and distributed independently of the studio system,...
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  • Motion Picture Production Code — commonly known as the Hays Code — which imposed strict guidelines on film content. This code remained in effect until...
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  • available prints of the film were heavily edited to conform with the Hays Code censorial standards.[citation needed] Filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich credited...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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