Censors’ power weakens with onset of the 1950s

Censors’ power weakens with onset of the 1950s Marlon Brando and Vivian Leigh in A Streetcar Named Desire

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,…

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