[78-L] ^Hays Office query off topic

[Julian Vein]

On 03/08/11 00:09, David Lennick wrote:
> 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.)
>
> dl
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Oddly enough, "The Moon Is Blue" is being shown next week on BBC2 TV!

      Julian Vein