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|region=North America | |region=North America | ||
|artist=Allan Dwan, | |artist=Allan Dwan, | ||
|subject=Political/Economic/Social Opinion | |||
|confronting_bodies=Lloyd T. Binford, Head, Memphis Censor Board | |||
|medium=Film Video | |medium=Film Video | ||
|date_of_action=1945 | |date_of_action=1945 | ||
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"But it was Binford's attitude toward blacks that caused him — and Memphis — the most condemnation. Binford was absolutely opposed to movies showing blacks and whites together on the same social level. In 1945, he blocked the hit musical Annie Get Your Gun from Ellis Auditorium because there were blacks in the cast "who had too familiar an air about them." For the same reason, he banned the film Imitation of Life (1934) with Claudette Colbert and Brewster's Millions (1945) with Eddie "Rochester" Anderson because certain scenes "gave too much prominence to Negroes." - memphis flyer | "But it was Binford's attitude toward blacks that caused him — and Memphis — the most condemnation. Binford was absolutely opposed to movies showing blacks and whites together on the same social level. In 1945, he blocked the hit musical Annie Get Your Gun from Ellis Auditorium because there were blacks in the cast "who had too familiar an air about them." For the same reason, he banned the film Imitation of Life (1934) with Claudette Colbert and Brewster's Millions (1945) with Eddie "Rochester" Anderson because certain scenes "gave too much prominence to Negroes." - memphis flyer | ||
|description_of_result=Banned in Memphis | |description_of_result=Banned in Memphis, | ||
To show the films in Memphis, local distributors had to delete these scenes. As a result, some movies shown here were minutes shorter than the same films shown in other cities, because Binford ordered the complete removal of scenes featuring prominent black performers like Duke Ellington or Cab Calloway. | |||
|image=Brewsters Millions.jpg | |image=Brewsters Millions.jpg | ||
|source=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037557/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2, https://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/banned-in-memphis/Content?oid=1144204 | |source=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037557/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2, https://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/banned-in-memphis/Content?oid=1144204 | ||
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