Eventually the film industry was forced by law to follow the dictates of the Production Code established in 1934, overseen by Will Hays and supported by the church.
They're all meeting up in Will Hays's suite.
They were supposed to've got together in Will Hays's smoke-filled suite ..." "That part's mine," said Daugherty, "looking into my crystal ball last spring.
Usually, Daugherty liked to take credit for what was supposed to have happened in Will Hays's suite at eleven minutes after two of that famous Saturday morning.
It was said that Albert Lasker, on orders from Will Hays, had given the Phillipses fifty thousand dollars to get lost until after the election.
Caroline told them that Will Hays would not be coming to Hollywood.
The old newspaper editor, who managed, always, to be so smugly in the wrong on every subject, had been carefully based on a year's observation of Will Hays in action.
William Hays (and the nicknames Bill Hays and Will Hays) may refer to:
Hess was attorney for Will Hays and the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America.
The industry met this threat in 1922 by appointing its own censor, Harding's former Postmaster-General, Will Hays.