Topic: Joseph Breen

Book reviews: The Dame in the Komono: Hollywood, Censorship and the Production Code from the 1920s to the 1960s, by Leonard J. Leff and Jerold L. Simmons

Helium - 469 days ago
(1990, Grove Weidenfeld, 350 pages) suggest an exciting detective thriller in the Sam Spade tradition. Added to that were tales of wild Hollywood parties, orgies and excesses and people were upset at the Sodom and Gomorrah called Hollywood. Breen vigorously upheld the ...

The Hollywood studio system

The Encyclopedia Britannica - 864 days ago
By 1929, Warner Brothers had acquired the Stanley theatre circuit, which controlled nearly all the first-run houses in the mid-Atlantic states, and the production and distribution facilities of its former rival First National to become one of the largest studios in Hollywood ...

Library Corner

The Encyclopedia Britannica - 901 days ago
A list of information resources related to the main topics of articles in the issue is presented, including the books " Exposure, Abatement, Regulation" by Joseph J. Breen and Cindy R. Stroup, "Air Quality," third edition, by Thad Godish, and "Air Pollution and ...

Violent youth the censoring and public reception of The Wild One and The Blackboard Jungle

The Encyclopedia Britannica - 912 days ago
At a time of transition for the Production Code Administration, Hollywood's self-regulatory censor body, a number of films pushed permissible boundaries regarding profanity and violence. The Code office staff, initially under long-time director Joseph Breen and after October 1954 under Geoffrey ...

Martin Quigley

The Encyclopedia Britannica - 919 days ago
Aspects of the topic Martin Quigley are discussed in the following places at Britannica. A prominent Catholic layman, Joseph I. Breen, was appointed to head the administration, and under Breen's auspices Father Daniel A. Lord, a Jesuit priest, and Martin Quigley ...

Daniel A Lord

The Encyclopedia Britannica - 920 days ago
Aspects of the topic Daniel A. Lord are discussed in the following places at Britannica. A prominent Catholic layman, Joseph I. Breen, was appointed to head the administration, and under Breen's auspices Father Daniel A. Lord, a Jesuit priest, and Martin ...