Comstock’s Crusade Against Obscenity
Cartoon of Anthony Comstock waging war against the wicked flesh upon the stage.
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Mrs. Warren’s Profession Cartoon
Cartoon portraying the volatile censorship of George Bernard Shaw’s American premiere of Mrs. Warren’s Profession in New York in 1905.
The Fight Publicity Materials
One of the most infamous censored brothel plays of the 1913 season.
Eugene O’Neill
Eugene O’Neill was one of America’s greatest playwrights and still remains the only playwright to garner multiple Pulitzer Prizes and the Nobel Prize for Literature. Click on the link below to […]
Play a Hooker and Win an Oscar
In this article, Bernard Weintraub notes that “the first Academy Award for best actress was given in 1928 to Janet Gaynor for her […]
Fay Bainter’s Biography
This biography of Fay Bainter appeared in the fan magazine Hollywood in 1938 to promote Bainter’s Academy Award-winning performance in Jezebel (1938). The biography makes mention of her star-making role […]
Cocaine by Pendleton King (1916)
This one-act play features drug abuse, urban poverty, and both men and women selling their bodies for sale. This honest portrait of drug abuse features two down-on-their luck addicts living in […]
Waterloo Bridge (1931)
Robert E. Sherwood’s 1930 play Waterloo Bridge was adapted for the screen in 1931 directed by James Whale and starring actress Mae Clarke; the director and star would reunite later […]
Tenderloin at Night (1899)
This film, Tenderloin at Night (1899), purports to depict a San Francisco barroom; the women in the film are described as prostitutes by Russell Campbell in his book Marked Women: […]
Shoes (1916)
This is an excerpt from Shoes (1916), directed by Lois Weber, one of the most acclaimed and commercially successful filmmakers of the era. Her films frequently dealt with such controversial […]