Will Hays and "Pre-Code" Hollywood (Fake News: Fact-Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 7)
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The Fields Movie and American Political Speech
Hayes was a master at seeming to say the right things without ever really saying or doing anything at all. He felt that it was his mission to create what he called a demand for finer films, so that the studios would have no choice but to provide the supply. A man may be imbued with the ideas of a vegetarian, but he can't run a vegetarian restaurant successfully when all his patrons demand beef.
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