As I indicated last week, producers started taking liberties with the Legion of Decency and the Production Code in the fifties. In 1951 Roberto Rossellini directed The Miracle, a film in which the character of Mary Magdalene is aligned with the Virgin Mary. The Vatican condemned it for profanity. So did the Legion. Cardinal Spellman,…
Censors’ power weakens with onset of the 1950s
Marlon Brando and Vivian Leigh in A Streetcar Named Desire

Aubrey Malone