For more than three decades the Catholic church, through its Legion of Decency, had the power to control the content of Hollywood films. From the mid-1930s to the late 1960s the Catholic Legion served as a moral guardian for the American public. Hollywood...
âHollywood Censoredâ examines how hundreds of films were censored and edited to promote a conservative political agenda during the gold era of studio production in the 1930s.