The film depicts the extreme excesses of the film industry in the early and mid 1920s just before the old Hays Code, named after Will H. Hays. Not explained in the movie, in the late 1920s the out-of-control lifestyle in the Hollywood of that years (wild parties, sex, alcohol, drugs and all kind of depravities and libertine behaviors) caused a series of scandals that the major studios tried to stop to give a more respectable, distinguished and elegant image to the audience. Hays, prominent right-wing politician and with a very deep catholic faith, was designed to put order after the infamous Fatty Arbuckle incident where the young aspiring actress Virginia Rappe died. Hays Code changed Hollywood over the decades, to control actors and actresses outside the filming sets, banning on-screen nudity and drug use as well as reducing strongly the role of the women in the movies. Although from the late 1940s the code started to erode, it prevailed until 1967, when Jack Valenti (last of Hays Code's protectors after Joseph Breen and Eric Johnson) derogated to replace it for a new rating system still active and in use since then.
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