
Will Hays and "Pre-Code" Hollywood (Fake News: Fact-Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 7)
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Hayes's Life Story
Will hayes was hired by lewis selsnick, who considered himself to be the mortal enemy of zuker. Selsnick believed that in hollywood, they could all go back to business as usual if they had a figurehead who could convince the public that he was cleaning house. The studios wanted hayes to essentially repeat his work for harding for them. They wanted him to pro ta positive projection of the industry and unite desperate factions behind that vision. Hayes would variously compared to a traffic cop and babbit, the conformist business man, to be invented in a satirical novel by sinclair lewis. A mass of event at the hollywood bowl was
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