Now and then, someone gets their back up about the immorality coming out of Hollywood and suggests reinstating the Hays Code, and there is literally no reason to do so. The latest diatribe to make the ...

American cinema can be divided into three eras of censorship, and William H. Hays played a part in all of them. The first era, wild and sexy, stirred a backlash to young Hollywood that allowed Hays to ...

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Two years into his tenure as President of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Will H. Hays was in front of Congress. Not for movie-related business, but for accepting and then ...

Some movies are so popular, they change Hollywood forever. That was the case with the 1967 gangster film Bonnie and Clyde starring Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty. Bonnie and Clyde came out during the ...

Marilyn Monroe is incandescent in Billy Wilder’s comedy about a tempted married man, but it’s a film hampered by restrictions of the time One of the patterns that emerges in Conversations With Wilder, ...

Rhianna Malas is a creative writer and essayist currently living in Melbourne, Australia. An RMIT alum, she has self produced a comic zine, and has written short stories and creative non-fiction ...

While it's well-known that almost anything goes in Hollywood today, there was a time when things on screen were much, much stricter. As Ryan Murphy's new <a id ...

Some books hit you where you live. So it is with A. E. Hotchner’s “Papa Hemingway,” where Hotchner lovingly tells of his 13 year friendship with Hemingway. These would be the last years of Hemingway’s ...