Word: censorable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...Atlantic torpedoing of the Empress of India. What Horry did not know was that Mary Eileen's parents knew he had never left Auckland. One of the letters which he had arranged to have posted back from Australia had been opened by the New Zealand wartime censor of outgoing mail, who thus accidentally gave police a vital clue. Confronted by the cops, Horry had a new story: Mary Eileen had paid him to marry her, he said, then eloped with an American G.I. Police found clothes belonging to Mary Eileen in the possession of a woman Horry was living...
David and Bathsheba (20th Century-Fox), apparently inspired by the phenomenal box-office take ($11 million in its first year) of Samson and Delilah, sends Hollywood back to the Bible for another censor-proof tale of a strong man's weakness for a beautiful woman. Like the Cecil B. DeMille opus, the new epic is a Technicolored potion concocted from equal parts of sex, spectacle and religion. But Producer Darryl F. Zanuck's mixture, neither so rich nor so heady as its predecessor, comes dangerously close to serving as a sleeping potion...
...turned up to cover the first Battle of Bull Run. Wrote Raymond of the Union retreat there: "The crowd in the rear became absolutely frenzied with fear, and an immense mass of wagons, horses, men on foot, and flying soldiers came dashing down the hill." But a censor held up his account so long that the Herald beat him on the streets...