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William Harrison Hays Sr. (/ h eɪ z /; November 5, 1879 – March 7, 1954) was an American politician, and member of the Republican Party. As chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1918 to 1921, Hays managed the successful 1920 presidential campaign of Warren G. Harding .
It is also popularly known as the Hays Code, after Will H. Hays, president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA) from 1922 to 1945. Under Hays's leadership, the MPPDA, later the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Motion Picture Association (MPA), adopted the Production Code in 1930 and began ...
Portrait of Will Hays (1921). Will H. Hays, President of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, introduces the audience to the Vitaphone sound system and muses on the possibilities of the technological advancement.
In 1922, after some risqué films and a series of off-screen scandals involving Hollywood stars, the studios enlisted Presbyterian elder Will H. Hays to rehabilitate Hollywood's image. Hays, later nicknamed the motion picture "Czar", was paid the then-lavish sum of $100,000 a year (equivalent to more than $1.7 million in 2022 dollars).
William B. Hays (1844–1912), Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Will H. Hays (1879–1954), RNC chair, postmaster general, Hays Code film industry self-censorship advocate; William Hercules Hays (1820–1880), U.S. federal judge; William Shakespeare Hays (1837–1907), American poet and lyricist; William Torrance Hays (1837–1875), Ontario ...
Hay was born at 23 Durham Street in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham.He was one of two sons and three daughters of William Robert Hay (1859–1920) and his wife, Elizabeth (1859–1910) (née Ebden). [1]
Breen was a journalist and an "influential layperson" in the Catholic community. [5] Breen worked for Will H. Hays as a "troubleshooter" as early as 1931. [6]In 1933, the Roman Catholic National Legion of Decency was founded, and began to rate films independently, putting pressure on the industry.
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