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 #:
00053
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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THE SAINTS AT WORK and dialogue infinitely more suggestive than the dropping of a ring from the hand of Greta Garbo in "A Woman of Affairs." In the August, 1929 issue of Scribner's, Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms" carried the following dialogue: "'Come on. We'll both get drunk and be cheerful. Then we'll get the ashes dragged. Then we'll feel fine.'" Again: u 'He's very tired and overworked,' he said. 'He thinks too he has syphilis. I don't believe it but he may have. He's treating himself for it.' " Now it is not our purpose to brand Scribner's as a pornographic sheet, but as one of the most highly regarded and respectable magazines in America. The dialogue fits the subject undertaken by Hemingway, and Virginia so far has raised no protest. Indignant note: I — The movies were restrained by the Hays Office from using a syphilitic subject even for a moment in "A Woman of Affairs." II — The Virginia censors would not allow a scene showing a woman letting a ring drop from her finger in this purified movie. 23