The Naughty Bits

<p>Between 1934 and 1968 no Hollywood studio could make a movie without the permission of and a seal of approval from the Production Code Administration. The Production Code was Hollywood's official censor. Screenplays books plays costumes and even story ideas and songs had to be okayed by the Code before they could be filmed and the Code monitored every stage of the production process to ensure compliance. The correspondence between the Code and the studios was confidential and the memos within the Code office itself were even more so.</p><p>Well not any more. <em>The Naughty Bits</em> pores through those files to show how the censors did their job. What was the world prevented from seeing in some of the greatest movies ever made including <em>Stagecoach</em> <em>Some Like It Hot</em> <em>Convention City</em> <em>Psycho</em> <em>His Girl Friday</em> and even <em>The Ten Commandments</em>? Here is the sometimes funny sometimes outrageous always riveting history of movie censorship on a nitty-gritty level.</p>