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...

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...

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...

the Motion Picture Production Code censorship guidelines (popularly known as the Hays Code) in 1934. Although the Hays Code was adopted in 1930, oversight...

film into conformity with the Hays Code. Screenwriter Casey Robinson believed the project was hopeless because of the Code. Producer Hal B. Wallis said...

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...

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...

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...

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...

appeared barely clothed. Hays became outraged at the steamy pictures circulating in newspapers around the country. The original Hays Code contained an often...

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...

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...

academic research involving queer theory or gender studies. In 1930, the Hays Code was established, which regulated the content of films and prohibited the...

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...

enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code (Hays Code) censorship guidelines. Although the Code was adopted in 1930, oversight was poor and it...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

Motion Picture Production Code — commonly known as the Hays Code — which imposed strict guidelines on film content. This code remained in effect until...

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...

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...

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...

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...

obligation to send their scripts to Hays's office, nor to follow his recommendations. In 1927, Hays oversaw the creation of a code of "Don'ts and Be Carefuls"...

been modeled loosely after the 1940 Hollywood Production Code, also known as the "Hays Code". Before the CCA was adopted, some cities had already organized...

controversial but has increased significantly in recent decades. The Hays Code banned the use of profanity outright, but the Motion Picture Association...