Some Like It Hot isn't just an important film because it's a one-of-a-kind comedy, but because it helped bring about a form of self-censorship that dominated decades of Hollywood filmmaking. Directed ...

While it's well-known that almost anything goes in Hollywood today, there was a time when things on screen were much, much stricter. As Ryan Murphy's new <a id ...

The Hays Code, developed by Will H. Hays but most notably supervised by Joseph Breen, had profound impact on the world of American cinema through it’s elimination of any concepts that didn’t match the ...

For more than three decades, the code applied rigid moral scrutiny to films, banning everything from interracial dating to "lustful kissing." It... Remembering Hollywood's Hays Code, 40 Years On When ...

In the 1930s, the infamous Hays Code came to Hollywood, a conservative set of motion picture guidelines that outlawed American films from featuring anything deemed lewd, crude, explicit, or—of ...

Elizabeth Taylor, in a scene from the movie “Suddenly Last Summer,” adapted from a play by Tennessee Williams and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz for Columbia Pictures. (Getty Images) The following ...