Censored : the private life of the movie (1930)

Record Details:

Title:
Censored : the private life of the movie
Date:
1930
Publisher:
New York : Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, Incorporated
Volume:
Censored : the private life of the movie
Leaf #:
00030
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 21, 2024
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PRIVATE LIFE OF THE MOVIE trayals of the prodigal wasting his substance in riotous living. In one scene the temptress, barely covered by a leopard skin, receives the prodigal on a rose-strewn couch in no mild manner. Yet, because the hero was chastened, punished, and repented (in one short reel), this movie was hardly touched by the hands of the godly. Nita Naldi appeared practically naked, whiskey and debauchery went on merrily in "The Ten Commandments," but because Cecil DeMille showed the Almighty putting on an electrical Fourth of July to put the fear of God into Moses, with subsequent death dealt to all sinners, the censors let this outrageous exhibition of bad taste slip by with little but words of praise and holy blessings. Mary Pickford's talking movie, "Coquette," had to be entirely re-written because producers were told that the censors would not allow the heroine to be shown pregnant. We now come to serious tyranny. "Coquette" was a beautiful, dignified, drama. It was a heart-breaking story of a Southerner of the old school who caused the death of two youngsters who loved earnest 8