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Will H. Hays (1879–1954)

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First President of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors Association of America, Will H. Hays had a distinguished career as a politician before that, most notably as Chairman of the Republican National Committee (1918-21) and as U.S. Postmaster General under Warren Harding (1921-22). As Postmaster General... See full bio »

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William Harrison Hays
in Sullivan, Indiana, USA

Died:

(age 74) in Sullivan, Indiana, USA
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1926 The Clinging Vine (president: PDC)
 
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1931 Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 6 (short)
Himself
 
1930 The Voice of Hollywood No. 10 (short)
Himself (uncredited)
 
1928 The Circus: Premiere (documentary short)
Himself (as Will Hays)
 
1926 Introductory Speech by Will H. Hays (short)
Himself
 
1922 Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 15 (documentary short)
Himself
 
1922 Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 10 (documentary short)
Himself
 
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2008 Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (TV documentary)
Himself (as Will Hayes)
 
2007 Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (documentary)
Himself
 
2006 This Film Is Not Yet Rated (documentary)
Himself
 
2005 Bullets Over Hollywood (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2005 Censorship: Morgan's Creek vs. the Production Code (video documentary short)
Himself
 
2003 Sex at 24 Frames Per Second (video documentary)
Himself
 
2003 Complicated Women (TV documentary)
Himself (uncredited)
 
2000 In the Shadow of Hollywood (documentary)
Himself (president, MPPDA) (uncredited)
 
1998 Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1995 The Celluloid Closet (documentary)
Himself
 
1995 The Casting Couch (video documentary)
 
1987 Hollywood Uncensored (documentary)
Himself (as Will Hays)
 
1980 Hollywood (TV mini-series documentary)
 
1946 Okay for Sound (documentary short)
MPPA President
 
1939 The Movies March On (documentary short)
Himself
 

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Will Hayes | Will Hays
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The greatest of all censors - the American public - is beginning to vote thumbs down on the hard-boiled realism in literature and on the stage, which marked the post-war period... The handwriting, now plainly on the wall, is that America is largely through with the post-war preoccupation with morbidity and crime in literature and drama... See more »

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