[78-L] ^Hays Office query off topic

[David Lennick]

On 8/2/2011 6:51 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
> On 8/2/2011 6:37 PM, Julian Vein wrote:
>> Just watched "Crime Wave" (aka "The City Is Dark"), 1954. It showed Gene
>> Nelson and Phyllis Kirk sharing the same bed. I understood this to be a
>> no-no under the Hays Code, unless the couple were actually married to
>> each other in real life, which these two weren't. I note that Hays died
>> in 1954, so was this the start of "The Hollywood Spring"?
>>
>>         Julian Vein
>
> Hays retired in 1945, so when he died is moot.  However, he was
> succeeded by Eric Johnston who himself died in 1963, leaving the office
> vacant until Jack Valenti took over in May 1966.  But I am not sure that
> the bed rule had not been relaxed by then anyway.  It was no longer the
> 1930s.  The rule was still in force on TV but even by then it probably
> was becoming looser.
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
Could it have been released in the wake of Otto Preminger's nose-thumbing "The 
Moon is Blue"? (The theme from which was recorded by the Sauter-Finegan 
Orchestra, who made 78s.)

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