Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...initial attack had all the more impact because it came from an unexpected quarter. While Hollywood keeps a weather eye on church groups, it has never been in trouble with the Protestant National Council of Churches, which traditionally avoids anything that smacks of censorship. But last week the NCC was giving Hollywood fits. The issue, said George A. Heimrich, director of the council's West Coast Broadcasting and Film Commission, was movies that "overemphasize sex for sex's sake and violence for violence's sake." Added Layman Heimrich, before flying to New York to meet with other...
...usual, Hollywood fired back in all directions. Sounding as if any criticism amounted to outright censorship, Columbia Vice President Sam Briskin pulled the trigger before he even saw the enemy. No individual or group, he cried, has a right to censor the industry. "The public will soon enough tell us what they want and don't want...
...stepped the Rev. H. K. Rasbach, American Lutheran and a member of the Film Board Committee, to say: "It is decidedly unChristian, after a man has put millions of dollars into a picture, to tell people not to see it. We want the industry to police itself." To that, Hollywood said a loud "Amen," and waited to see what happens next...
...have a better reason for throwing his life away?" ask the big ads for this glossy U.S. remake of a 1930 German classic. The answer the admen clearly expect from every red-blooded male is: No, not when the "reason" is long-limbed May (rhymes with thigh) Britt, Hollywood's newest sex goddess. This is not the answer they are likely to get from anyone who saw Marlene Dietrich in the original Blue Angel...
...flaws in Hollywood's Blue Angel, in fact, lie less in its cast than in its direction and production. Where the original was visually stark and grimy, the remake, splashed with incongruously cheery color, has the phony patina of Palm Springs. The sets and scenery (some of it filmed in Bavaria) suggest a Victor Herbert operetta rather than German bourgeois society. And the hardbitten, even morbid truths hammered home in the German version become soft and mawkish half-truths under the hand of Hollywood's Edward Dmytryk, who has consented to a happy ending that makes the teacher...