
Will Hays and "Pre-Code" Hollywood (Fake News: Fact-Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 7)
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Will Hayes and Harding
In the fall of 19 23, will hayes officially secretly separated from his wife helen. While serving as the figure head for an effort to promote traditional christian values on movie screens and within the movie colony. Hayes was quietly living as a single man in new york, while his wife of 20 years stayed behind in indiana. He would not actually file for divorce until 19 29, at which point his wifeHelen did not contest or protest the filing. In 19 30, essentially as soon as divorce was final, hayes married a widow named jessie heron. It was in 19 24, that events would begin to come to light that would tarnish hayes's
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