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 ...

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 ...

We’re living in a strange era of Hollywood self-censorship right now. With physical media dying out and streaming services becoming the default method of watching films, sites like Disney+ are free to ...

In 1939, Gone With the Wind broke censorship rules with the iconic swear, “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.” Filmmakers fought a battle to keep the line in the movie against the Hays Code ...

Old Hollywood movies had to follow strict guidelines throughout the 1930s–1960s, known as the Hays Code. This basically prevented all US films from featuring anything that was overtly sexual or ...

In the 1930s, the infamous Hays Code came to Hollywood, a conservative set of motion picture guidelines that outlawed American films from featuring anything deemed lewd, crude, explicit, or—of ...

The internet is in a tailspin thanks to Penn Badgley, the star of Netflix drama You, who announced on his podcast that when making the newest season, which recently came out, he asked to limit his sex ...

From subtle glances to groundbreaking scenes that challenged the Hays Code, join us as we explore the most memorable moments of LGBTQ representation in Golden Age cinema. These scenes pushed ...