WILL HAYS

WILL HAYS American film censor Hays became the first president of the MOTION PICTURE PRODUCERS AND DISTRIBUTORS OF AMERICA (MPPDA), which after World War II was renamed the MOTION PICTURE ASSOCIATON OF AMERICA (MPAA). Hays introduced the Production Code, which forced the film studios to impose a form of relatively strict moral self-censorship on their output of films. WILL HAYS American fi Date: 1954