Hollywood Hailed
It was two years, not 15, after “Gone With the Wind” that the word “damn” was used in a Hollywood film. In “How Green Was My Valley,” Sara Allgood literally “damns” the striking miners who have been talking against her husband. A further taboo breaker in that 1941 film was her use of the phrase “to hell with.” “The Moon Is Blue” was released in the spring of 1953, not 1954.
Rick Mitchell
Universal City
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