Movies and Morals
The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000
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The impact of movies on the morals of three decades! The problem of movie censorship and the techniques of outwitting the censors are discussed in thoughtful and hilarious detail. Wendy Barrie introduces Cecil B. DeMille, Paul Newman, Rouben Mamoulian, Otto Preminger, writers Nunnally Johnson, Marc Connelly, Anita Loos, Albert Hackett, theatre owner Harry Brandt, and Martin J. Quigley, who authored the famous Motion Picture Production Code.
WNYC archives id: 61015
