Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood
New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. “In the spring of 1934, Hollywood faced what the Los Angeles Times called ‘the most serious crisis of its history.’ The film capital was under siege by censorship advocates who launched a boycott, demanding that the film industry enforce the Production Code it had adopted in 1930. For nearly five years, defiant producers had cited artistic freedom and flouted the..... More
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