From the Harry Ransom Center's "Making Movies" exhibit, running from February 9th to August 1st, 2010:

THE MOTION PICTURE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
February 1st, 1938

Objectionable and offensive words and phrases which must be excluded from all talking motion pictures:



Alley-cat (applied to a woman)
Bag (applied to a woman)
Bat (applied to a woman)
Broad (applied to a woman)
Bum (objectionable in England)
Bronx cheer (the sound)
Chippie
Chink
Cissy and Sissy (objectionable in England)
Cocotte
Courtesan
Dago
Dump
Eunuch
Fanny
Fairy (in a vulgar sense)
Finger (the)
Frog (Frenchman)
Floozy
Goose (when used in a vulgar sense)
Goosing (when used in a vulgar sense)
Guts
Gigolo (always censored in England)
Greaser
Harlot
Hold your hat or hats
Hot (applied to a woman)
House-broken
Hun
In your hat
Joint (referring to a brothel)
Kike
Louse
Lousy
Lover (when meaning illicit sex)
Madam (when relating to prostitution)
Make a pass at
Mistress (illicit sex)
Nance
Nigger
Nerts
Nuts (except when meaning "crazy" as in "you're nuts")
On the make
Pansy
Punk
Razzberry (the sound)
Sex appeal
Shyster (objectionable in England)
Slut
Son-of-a
Skirt (referring to a woman)
Spic
Tart
Tom-cat (applied to a man)
"Travelling salesman" and "farmer's daughter" jokes
Tramp (applied to a woman)
Trollop
Whore
Wop
Yid



Posted by miracle on Thu, 08 Apr 2010 10:43:23 -0500 -- permanent link