... Ernst Mosher John Newsweek New York Times Roosevelt Franklin Delano Strauss Theodore Suspicion To Be or Not to Be Alfred Hitchcock Carole Lombard light comedy Production Code Administration racy dialogue toilet imagery forbidden words Mr. and Mrs. Smith Synopsis...

... Stanwyck Barbara Truffaut François Crowther Bosley London Sunday Times Nation New York Times Powell Dilys Alfred Hitchcock Dorothy Parker propaganda Statue of Liberty Production Code Administration America First Party sabotage Saboteur Synopsis.  Suspected...

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... and embellishing the tightly knit plot with a spellbinding murder scene. The Production Code Administration found little to quibble with, asking that a few hells and damns be omitted and that the ‘intimate parts’ of Grace Kelly’s body ‘be fully clothed at all times.’ The film...

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... Production Code Administration illegitimacy wedding night blues The Trouble with Harry Synopsis . The trouble with Harry is that he’s dead. Three shots ring out in a resplendent Vermont countryside and a young boy, Arnie (Jerry Mathers), comes across Harry’s body. At least three...

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...Vertigo received mixed reviews on its initial release, but a 2012 poll of film critics rated it the best film of all time. During script preparation and filming, the Production Code Administration reported several objections to the somewhat implausible story of a man who tricks...

... Valenti Jack Alfred Hitchcock Paul Newman Julie Andrews Production Code Administration crying ‘Fire!’ in a crowded theater East Germany Cold War gruesome murder scene Torn Curtain Synopsis . An American nuclear scientist, Michael Armstrong (Paul Newman), leaves his...

... London Maclean Donald Philby Kim Corliss Richard Film Quarterly Alfred Hitchcock Leon Uris alternative endings Production Code Administration punishment of evildoers Topaz Synopsis.  In Copenhagen just before the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, a defecting Soviet agent...

... Canby Vincent Cocks Jay Frenzy Marnie New York Magazine New York Times Shaffer Anthony Simon John Time magazine Topaz Torn Curtain Trouble with Harry The Alfred Hitchcock Barbara Harris Bruce Dern Production Code Administration double entendres ending wink Family Plot Synopsis...

... Hallelujah I’m a Bum Joan Crawford Somerset Maugham Sergei Bertenson Kendall Lee Ben Hecht 1931 Academy Awards Production Code Administration When I got my way, I kept it up. —Lewis Milestone When Milestone returned to Los Angeles from Europe and New York in the autumn of 1930...

...The chapter covers The French Line and the battles Howard Hughes had with the Production Code Administration and the Catholic Church over the musical number "Looking for Trouble." Also discussed is the costume for the number, designed by Michael Woulfe, that prompted a major battle...

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... productions on a brief stint away from the Production Code Administration, sought to erase all suspicious activity from Grant’s character. Hitchcock sidestepped much of the meddling, but this movie suffered more than most of his films from Production Code interference, particularly the provisions regarding...

... into a promising screenplay, Hitchcock and Hecht ran afoul of the FBI, the Office of War Information, and the Production Code Administration. Seeking a plot point, or Macguffin, to serve as a focus for the espionage story, they explored the possibility of using an explosive device whose existence was only rumored...

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... Grant Cary Holden William Mildred Pierce Milland Ray Strangers on a Train Supreme Court Suspicion Paradine Case The Rope Alfred Hitchcock Jack L. Warner profit points Warner Bros Production Code Administration creative freedom Warner Bros.’ agreement to serve as a distributor...

... Michael Hayes Production Code Administration French Riviera fireworks seduction Joe Breen Geoffrey Shurlock To Catch a Thief Synopsis . John Robie (Cary Grant), once a successful cat burglar, earned a prison parole for serving in the French Resistance during World War II...

... “Laziest Gal in Town The ” New York Times Oscar nominations Shurlock Geoffrey Stage Fright Alfred Hitchcock Doris Day child kidnapping respect for religions Production Code Administration The Man Who Knew Too Much Synopsis . On holiday in Marrakech, Dr. Ben MacKenna...