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Power group. Jesse Lasky, Will Hays, Thomas Edison, Adolph Zukor, and an unknown stranger photobomb.
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Power group. Jesse Lasky, Will Hays, Thomas Edison, Adolph Zukor, and an unknown stranger photobomb.
Seeing people on socials argue in favour of the Hays Code and I want to walk into a forest and never return.
(I don’t even understand what the fuss is about we are living in one of the most sexless and sanitized generations of mainstream American film releases)
Happy birthday American film censor and namesake of "The Hays Code" Will H. Hays! (1979 - 1954)
Motion Picture, January 1939
Charlie Chaplin and Will Hays of the famous Hays Code, circa 1935.
Jesse Lasky, Will Hays, Thomas Edison, and Adolph Zukor at the opening of the Paramount Theatre in New York City in November 1926.
Looking west down Hollywood Boulevard, a banner hangs over the street with the message "Welcome Will H. Hays... See you Saturday at Hollywood Bowl". (1922)
Hays resigned his cabinet position to become president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA, later called the Motion Picture Association of America)