hays code

‘Lady for a Night’ Poked a Stick in the Eye of Southern Censors

‘Lady for a Night’ Poked a Stick in the Eye of Southern Censors

Hays Code era Lady for a Night links black American characters with upstart so-called “white trash” to expose corruption and “zombie” hypocrisy from the so-called “quality class”.

In Praise of the Artifice in George Cukor’s ‘Sylvia Scarlett’

Betty Boop and Bimbo Get Into a Sexual Tangle in ‘Barnacle Bill’