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1950s Hollywood’s Darkest Years

article by Bob Thomas

Ocala Star-Banner August 1965

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   The 1950s were Hollywood’s dark decade.

   Everything seem to conspire against film industry. Television replaced movies at the entertainment habit. The public also lavished its leisure and cash or travel, do-it-yourself projects and a host of other distractions. Foreign films with few censorship restrictions were cutting into the world market.

   With costs rising and attendance slashed in half, some studios flirted with bankruptsy. The companies tried 3-D, wide screens, even smellfes. Nothing worked for long.

   RK and Republic ceased operations as film producers. Other companies stayed alive only by making TV films, selling real estate, drilling for oil and dumping old movies into television.

   The conviction grew among producers that films would have to come to grips with sex.

   A maverick Viennese was to lead them. In 1952, Otto Preminger made a film version of a seemingly harmless sex play, “The Moon Is Blue”. Because Preminger refused to cut the words “virgin” and “seduce” from the script, the production code refused a seal. The National Legion of Decency condemned the film.

   “The Moon Is Blue” turned into a big money market.

   The seal was refused again to Otto Preminger for showing a drug injection by Frank Sinatra in “The Man with the Golden Arm”. The code banned the depiction of dope. This time the Legion didn’t condemn.

   “Golden Arm” proved that at the box office, further convincing producers that the code had to be updated.

 

 

Big Change

The Big Change came in 1956.

 

 

 

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Franker films

Marilyn Monroe

     

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   Marilyn Monroe symbolized the new attitude toward sex in films. She feared her career would be ruined when it was revealed that she had once posed in nude. Her career boomed after the news, and later she cheerfully autographed the photos of herself nude on red velvet.

 

 

 

 

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   Marilyn Monroe was as provocative on the screen as she was in interviews.

 

 

 

 

Ocala Star-Banner, Ocala, Florida, (U.S.A.), Friday, August 6, 1965, p. 5.

 

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