Advertising problems


In his book "The Great Movie Stars - The International Years", David Shipman wrote that the advertising campaign for "A Kiss Before Dying" ran into censorship problems. Does anyone know anything about this?

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Well this film did deal with an unmarried woman who was *gasp* pregnant... which at the time was _quite_ a shocking concept for most of the uptight folks in charge of things back then. They surely didn't want the women to actually enjoy themselves... :>

I'm not positive if that's the reason or not, but having just watched it this evening, that would stand out to me as something 'racy' or 'provocative' in the mid 1950s.

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Yeah and she was dating Dwight, too, and getting ready to knit booties so she was obviously having sex with more than one man and we guess others, too.

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They weren't booties. They were sox for him, according to the book. In the book, she always started knitting sox for guys she liked.

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Yes, I remember that Dwight mentioned that her knitting socks for him scared him off.
But I do remember thinking that the gloves (her sister sent her) were booties, until her sister mentioned the gloves later on to Gordon.

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Is "sox" a real word, outside of baseball team names?

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