Word: censor
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...wolf gazed hungrily at the shapely maiden. Then he drooled and howled. But no moviegoer ever saw that scene from MGM's cartoon, Red Hot Riding Hood. Hollywood's censor, the Breen office, which hardly blinks at a human wolf on the screen, turned a prompt thumbs-down on the cartoon version. Last week Producer Walter Lantz sounded off on some other rules of cartoon censorship...
...that priests would be stationed in the lobbies to take down the names of parishioners who attended. I was told that all these things had happened in Philadelphia when a picture with a 'C' rating was shown there, and, further, that the rating was an invitation for every local censor board in the country to snipe at a picture, to require cuts or to ban it altogether...
...refrain sung and spoken by Narrator Walbrook. The narrator spins a symbolic merry-go-round and manages the characters like a master puppeteer, pops up in each episode as a waiter, doorman or passerby and once, prophetically, with shears in one hand and film in the other, as the censor...
...Streetcar Named Desire is the latest picture to suggest that Hollywood Censor Joseph Breen has been stretching the Production Code to let more of the facts of life reach the screen. The reason, according to Hollywood observers: to help producers strengthen their movies for the competition with TV. Other recent examples: A Place in the Sun, in which a character tries to get an abortion; People Will Talk, whose broad-minded hero marries a girl pregnant, out of wedlock, by another man; The Prowler, which turns on a wedding-night discovery that the bride is an expectant mother...
Municipal Censor Walter R. Milliken and his staff attend the first performance of the week in order to judge for themselves. For that reason patrons who are in the know also catch the first Monday show...