• Joseph Ignatius Breen (October 14, 1888 – December 5, 1965) was an American film censor with the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America...
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  • Joseph Patrick Breen (born October 26, 1960) is an American actor, playwright, screenwriter, and director. Breen was born in Brooklyn, New York, on October...
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    Hays Code (redirect from Breen Office)
    United States. From 1934 to 1954, the code was closely identified with Joseph Breen, the administrator appointed by Hays to enforce the code in Hollywood...
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    encountered stronger resistance from PCA head Joseph Breen than it had from the British censors. Breen reported back that the script "contains countless...
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    George Mitchell / Joseph M. Schenck / Forbidden Games (1952) 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation / Bell & Howell Company / Joseph Breen / Pete Smith (1953)...
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    were competing to buy the rights for $25,000. The fervor ended when Joseph Breen from the Hays Office warned in a letter to the studios: The general low...
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  • doctor challenged by the realities of a cruel and horrifying world." Joseph Breen, director of the Production Code Authority, which administered the Hays...
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    1979 single "Cruel to Be Kind" with real footage of their wedding.) Joseph Breen (2006–2020) Carter was for many years linked romantically with the late...
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    George Mitchell / Joseph M. Schenck / Forbidden Games (1952) 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation / Bell & Howell Company / Joseph Breen / Pete Smith (1953)...
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    her earlier years. Right from the start, Joseph Breen, the new head film censor, had numerous complaints. Breen ordered the removal of the suggestive introduction...
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    George Mitchell / Joseph M. Schenck / Forbidden Games (1952) 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation / Bell & Howell Company / Joseph Breen / Pete Smith (1953)...
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    George Mitchell / Joseph M. Schenck / Forbidden Games (1952) 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation / Bell & Howell Company / Joseph Breen / Pete Smith (1953)...
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    to describe the low neckline itself, instead of the term décolletage. Joseph Breen, head of the U.S. film industry's Production Code Administration, coined...
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  • studios requested the Hays Office evaluate the piece for film adaptation. Joseph Breen emphatically condemned the depictions of murder and adultery, killing...
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    George Mitchell / Joseph M. Schenck / Forbidden Games (1952) 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation / Bell & Howell Company / Joseph Breen / Pete Smith (1953)...
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    Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule Jr.; other pseudonym Mickey Maguire; September 23, 1920 – April 6, 2014) was an American actor. In a career spanning nearly...
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  • production obstacles arose when Production Code Administration head Joseph Breen rejected the screenplay due to its perceived immorality. The screenplay...
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    Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966) was an American actor, comedian and film director. He is best known for his silent films...
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    Nevertheless, MGM produced Three Comrades in 1938, despite movie censor Joseph Breen warning Mayer that the film was "a serious indictment of the German nation...
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    George Mitchell / Joseph M. Schenck / Forbidden Games (1952) 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation / Bell & Howell Company / Joseph Breen / Pete Smith (1953)...
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    independent exhibitors). For several months in 1929, Martin Quigley, Joseph Breen, Father Daniel A. Lord S.J., Father FitzGeorge Dinneen S.J., and Father...
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  • Welcome to Mooseport Avery Hightower Uncredited Bereft Lloyd The Aviator Joseph Breen 2005 Ape to Man The Narrator Direct-to-video documentary 2006 Relative...
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    George Mitchell / Joseph M. Schenck / Forbidden Games (1952) 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation / Bell & Howell Company / Joseph Breen / Pete Smith (1953)...
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    daughters, and in 1984 they acted in Nest of the Wood Grouse, directed by Joseph Papp. Four years later, in 1988, they acted in a revival of Cafe Crown,...
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  • being better than some of his costars. Herrmann had a small role as Joseph Breen in the 2004 film The Aviator, being assessed by Rich Drees as joining...
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    studios had an interest in the project before Columbia purchased it. Joseph Breen, the head of that office, warned the studios: "[W]e would urge most earnestly...
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    Joseph Michael Schenck (/ˈskɛŋk/; December 25, 1876 – October 22, 1961) was a Russian-born American film studio executive. Schenck was born to a Jewish...
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    George Mitchell / Joseph M. Schenck / Forbidden Games (1952) 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation / Bell & Howell Company / Joseph Breen / Pete Smith (1953)...
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  • Robert E. Gross Stanley DeSantis as Louis B. Mayer Edward Herrmann as Joseph Breen Willem Dafoe as Roland Sweet Kevin O'Rourke as Spencer Tracy J. C. MacKenzie...
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  • Code, had notified Mayer of potential problems in the German market. Joseph Breen, head of the Production Code Administration department under Hays, thought...
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