Mae West: Breen Screen

On 10 February 1936 - - after a tsunami of objections and windy correspondence with MAE WEST and Paramount Pictures - - movie censor Joe Breen agreed to the release of "Klondike Annie."
• • Ramona Curry analyzed the set-to in her article "Mae West as Censored Commodity: The Case of "Klondike Annie":
• • "The controversy began immediately upon Hollywood previews of the film in early February, when [Joe] Breen learned that Paramount was exhibiting a print containing material that had been deleted from the version of the film approved by the PCA. Breen immediately rescinded the Code seal and entered into into further negotiations with the studio which resulted in the elimination of 'love talk' and other implications of an 'illicit love affair,' before he agreed on 10 February 1936 to the film's release. "Klondike Annie" opened five days later in a special public preview in Miami and was released nationwide the following week. ..."
• • Source: Ramona Curry, "Mae West as Censored Commodity: The Case of "Klondike Annie," Cinema Journal 31, No.1, Fall 1991, Pg. 57-85.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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Mae West
• • Movie poster • • Mae West • • 1936 • •
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