Sodom and Gomorrah : the story of Hollywood (1935)

Record Details:

Title:
Sodom and Gomorrah : the story of Hollywood
Date:
1935
Publisher:
Los Angeles : End Poverty League
Volume:
Sodom and Gomorrah : the story of Hollywood
Leaf #:
000108
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
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Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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104 SODOM AND GOMORRAH terial that a mother could read to her twelve-yearold daughter. Yet the Catholic and other churches ask why Hollywood produces so many objectionable films. The marvel of it all is that they aren't worse. Moral laxity applies to the entire industry. As pointed out once before, it is quite true that some individuals are above reproach as far as their private lives are concerned. These people provide the "front." Even in the ancient wicked cities of Sodom and Gomorrah there were a few good people. But these few were so in the minority that their goodness made no impression whatever on the general populace. And as these cities nad no high-powered publicity departments to whitewash them, the Lord was not fooled into sparing them. He decided the best way to deal with the whole mess was to get Lot and his family out of town and then burn the place. But if he were to do that in Hollywood today, it would be merely wasted effort, for the producers would probably set up business in Harlem — Paramount would, anyway, as an accomodation to Mae West. There is, of course, that class of individuals whose private lives are fairly clean, but who care not a tinker's damn whether the industry of which they are a part is morally corrupt, and whether it produces a type of entertainment termed obscene and filthy by the best elements of the country's population. In this class fall some