During World War I, the Catholic church blocked the distribution of government-sponsored V.D. prevention films, initiating an era of attempts by the church to censor the movie industry. This book is an entertaining and engrossing account of those efforts―how they evolved, what effect they had on the movie industry, and why they were eventually abandoned. Frank Walsh tells how the church's influence in Hollywood grew through the 1920s and reached its peak in the 1930s, when the film industry allowed Catholics to dictate the Production Code, which became the industry's self-censorship system, and the Legion of Decency was established by the church to blacklist any films it considered offensive. With the industry's Joe Breen, a Catholic layman, cutting movie scenes during production and the Legion of Decency threatening to ban movies after release, the Catholic church played a major role in determining what Americans saw and didn't see on the screen during Hollywood's Golden Age. Walsh provides fascinating details about the church's efforts to guard against anything it felt might corrupt moviegoers' morals: forcing Gypsy Rose Lee to change her screen name; investigating Frank Sinatra's fitness to play a priest in Miracle of the Bells; altering a dance sequence in Oklahoma; eliminating marital infidelity from Two-Faced Woman; compelling Howard Hughes to make 147 cuts in The Outlaw; blocking the distribution of Birth of a Baby; and attacking Asphalt Jungle for serving the "crooked purposes of the Soviet Union." However, notes Walsh, there were serious divisions within the church over film policy. Bishops feuded with one another over how best to deal with movie moguls, priests differed over whether attending a condemned film constituted a serious sin, and Legion of Decency reviewers disagreed over film evaluations. Walsh shows how the decline of the studio system, the rise of a new generation of better-educated Catholics, and changing social values gradually eroded the Legion's power, forcing the church eventually to terminate its efforts to control the type of film that Hollywood turned out. In an epilogue he relates this history of censorship to current efforts by Christian fundamentalists to end "sex, violence, filth, and profanity" in the media.

Sin and Censorship: The Catholic Church and the Motion Picture Industry

Humor & Entertainment

Walsh, Frank

Movies

Yale University Press

The United States has been shaped by the people and events of if its past. This series vividly describes events that determined the course of U.S. history and introduces young readers to the people who influenced these events. The easy-to-read text, historic photographs, suggested activities, and clear, simple maps help bring to life the causes of these events, their effects on people at the time, and their significance today. This book tells the story of African Americans from the time of slavery to the civil rights protests of the 1960s, looking in-depth at segregation and racism in the U.S. It details how the boycott came about and why it succeeded.

The Montgomery Bus Boycott (Events That Shaped America)

Children's Books

Crewe, Sabrina

History

Gareth Stevens Pub Learning library

New York City (Great Cities of the World)

Examines the history, government, geography, and diverse population of New York City.

Gareth Stevens Pub Secondary Lib

Gareth Stevens Pub.

Describes how the black community of Montgomery, Alabama, staged the 1955 boycott to end segregation on public buses and discusses that struggle in the context of the Civil Rights Movement.

The Montgomery Bus Boycott (Landmark Events in American History)

The Montgomery Bus Boycott (Graphic Histories)

Depicts how the black community of Montgomery, Alabama, staged the 1955 boycott to end segregation on public buses, discussing the struggle in the context of the Civil Rights Movement.

O'Hern, Kerri

Gareth Stevens Pub Hi-Lo Must reads

El Boicot a Los Autobuses De Montgomery/The Montgomery Bus Boycott (Historias Graficas/Graphic Histories) (Spanish Edition)

Using bold, full-color graphic illustrations, Graphic Histories portrays critical chapters in American history in a way that reluctant readers will find immediately accessible. Simple, exciting text and vivid drawings work together to explain critical events from battles to boycotts to triumphs of human courage and technology that shaped the course of American history.

Vacation Condominiums for Rent: Condominium Apartments You Can Rent for a Few Days or by the Week in Major U.S. Vacation Areas, Mexico and the Virgin

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Mexico

Marlor Pr

"Contract Bridge for New Bridge Players" is a series of 50 lessons my wife, Christine, and I started teaching to beginning Social (or Party) Bridge Players over 10 years ago. We wrote our own lessons for our classes. A copy of each week's lesson was given to each student each week and was available to any student that missed a class so that they could keep up with the lessons. The lessons are based, in part, on my experience playing and teaching bridge for over 60 years.Because this book is written for beginning Social Bridge players (as opposed to more experienced players), the following considerations have been made in "Contract Bridge for New Bridge Players": 1. In Social (or Party) bridge, partners often change every 4 to 6 hands. Therefore the bidding system used is very simple and will be understood by most Social Bridge players.2. Bidding shown in the book tends to be conservative so that beginning players will be successful (make their bid) when they play a hand and therefore gain confidence.3. Only one Convention (Blackwood) is used.4. When I teach a class, I am there to answer questions. With this book, I have tried to anticipate and answer a variety of questions that may occur. 5. To personalize the book and make it more interesting, I have included a number of bridge stories from my family. Some go back to when my parents were playing duplicate bridge in the 1930's - soon after Contract Bridge was invented. At that time, they had to create their own bidding system. This led to some challenging situations.I hope you find that "Contract Bridge for New Bridge Players" helps you to enjoy the game of bridge and that you become an avid bridge player.Frank Walsh

Contract Bridge for New Bridge Players: A Basic Bridge Reference for New Bridge Players and Players Who Are Returning to the Game After an Absence of a Number of Years

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Sin and Censorship: The Catholic Church and the Motion Picture Industry

The Montgomery Bus Boycott (Events That Shaped America)

New York City (Great Cities of the World)

New York City (Great Cities of the World)

The Montgomery Bus Boycott (Landmark Events in American History)

The Montgomery Bus Boycott (Graphic Histories)

El Boicot a Los Autobuses De Montgomery/The Montgomery Bus Boycott (Historias Graficas/Graphic Histories) (Spanish Edition)

El Boicot a Los Autobuses De Montgomery/The Montgomery Bus Boycott (Historias Graficas/Graphic Histories) (Spanish Edition)

Vacation Condominiums for Rent: Condominium Apartments You Can Rent for a Few Days or by the Week in Major U.S. Vacation Areas, Mexico and the Virgin

Contract Bridge for New Bridge Players: A Basic Bridge Reference for New Bridge Players and Players Who Are Returning to the Game After an Absence of a Number of Years