Modern Screen (Jan - Nov 1940)

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The only way we can satisfy everyone and still put a villain into a film is to have him a white, native born American, without a job, and with no political, social, religious, fraternal or industrial affiiliations. Which doesn't allow us much leeway to use anyone except Donald Duck!" Once every week, flanked by members of his staff, Breen rivets his keen gaze on virginal celluloid products. In one hand he holds a notebook, and into it he makes his important notes. Take a glance at some of his typical and more historic jottings — To: Mr. Jack Warner. Re: "Robin Hood." "I'm afraid political censor boards throughout the world will delete the action of Errol Flynn as Robin Hood kicking the sheriff in the stomach." To: Mr. Louis B. Mayer. Re: "Test Pilot." "Be careful with the attire of Gable lying on the bed in Scene 376. You know, of course, that audiences find distasteful scenes of men clothed only in their underwear. The business, in Scene 484, of Myrna Loy spraying perfume behind her ears should be deleted. Please eliminate the word "floozy" in Scene 36." On every picture he has observed for six years, Joe Breen has made these terse reports. And the producers, aware that he is their good will ambassador to the public, their money-saver with pressure groups, have behaved. No objectionable scene ever escapes Breen's eye. No word of objectionable dialogue ever goes in one ear and out the other. In "The Old Maid," you may recall Bette Davis has an illegitimate child. Breen and his workers didn't mind this. But they didn't want it given too much attention. "Make your point," Breen warned Warners, "and then leave it and go on with the picture!" In the first version of "Juarez," there was a shot showing the face of Maximillian, played by Brian Aherne, as he lay dead. Breen protested. Said it wasn't in the best taste. It was scissored. In "Naughty But Nice," Ann Sheridan said to Dick Powell, "I'd love to go to college and study under you." The Purity Seal was withheld until this two-edged sentence lay on the cutting room floor. In an M-G-M auto racing show, the words "punk," "tramp" and "fast worker" were cut. In a movie with Zorina, Eddie Albert was shown using some slugs instead of nickels. Breen frowned and wrote, "This is a detail of crime which might too easily be imitated. Drop it." In a recent Selznick picture, the navels of Indians appeared on the screen. Breen insisted that they be draped. TODAY, with Europe aflame, with the foreign market a corpse, Hollywood producers have been concentrating on movies for the South American trade. Joe Breen, after studying Latin tastes, warned filmville big-wigs not to present Latins as killers or to place violence against South American backgrounds. Zanuck attempted this with "Four Men and a Prayer," and his picture was banned in South America. 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