Labels:text | screenshot | green OCR: These excerpts from the membership pledge of the Catholic (later the National) Legion of Decency should give you a good idea of how serious the American Church hierarchy was when they vowed to "clean up" the motion picture industry during the Depression. Boasting seven million pledged members by mid -1934 (mostly because parishioners were forced to recite the pledge during mass), the Legion quickly put the fear of God into Hollywood. Fearing a Catholic boycott of cinema bouses the movie moguls created their own self-censorship organ, the Production Code Administration, which had final script approval on all studio productions. Abruptly , sex became taboo in American films (even married couples had to sleep in separate beds), good had to always triumph over evil, and any criticism of the go ...
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