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...revised Code, and the Board's approval of the controversial Baby Doll, however, is a sign that the industry is freeing itself from the undue influence of particular groups in regard for a broader popular taste and artistic integrity. Perhaps with time and with liberal support, the industry will assert itself towards removing these hindrances to free expression and will raise the stature of the American cinema to a creative art. As Sam Goldwyn said, speaking for the industry, "We should and must have the same right as any other medium to say what we think, and to show what...
...defense of his position, Schmidt said that unanimity about the means to improve society is impossible, and therefore authority is the only way to reach agreement. He used "Baby Doll," a picture banned by Cardinal Spellman, as an example of how this authority functions in a free society...
...himself TV's most inventive master of pantomime, sight gags and sound effects. When he opened a copy of Camille, a female cough came out of it. He educed a knowing chuckle from the inscrutable Mona Lisa, and screwed up his rubbery face with Chaplinesque glee as Baby Doll rolled out of her famed crib. As Eugene the Clubman he was defied by gravity. The Nairobi Trio, composed of three derbied apes, played a hilarious composition for xylophone, mallet and finger bone. There was even a custard...
Denounced from the pulpit by New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman as "revolting" and "morally repellent."* Baby Doll ran into its biggest snarl in Providence. The police snipped half a dozen scenes before they would permit it to be shown. Warner Bros., the film's distributor, threatened to sue the exhibitor if he showed the cut version, but he hung out his "For Adults Only" shingle and began running it anyway. Roman Catholic Bishop Russell J. McVinney of Providence urged his flock to abide by the Legion of Decency's ban against the picture even...
...Albany, where the church threatened to boycott future films at the theater scheduled to play Baby Doll, the management pleaded with Warner Bros, to be let out of its contract to play the movie. In Boston, a spokesman for Catholic Layman Joseph P. Kennedy, ex-U.S. Ambassador to Britain and father of Massachusetts' Senator John Kennedy, announced that he would keep the picture out of his chain of 23 theaters in Maine and New Hampshire. (In Washington a Joint Services Commission discreetly omitted the picture from the list approved for showing in theaters of the armed forces; G.I.s...