The Incident That Changed The History Of Hollywood

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In 192, an incident has happened, that changed the history of Hollywood, (FAMOUS COMEDIAN CHARGED WITH MURDER)1, that was a headline in one of the popular news paper at the time. What happened was that the comedian Fatty Arbuckle booked a suite at St. Francis Hotel during a drinking party then he have disappeared for a while in his room with model Virginia Rappe. Hours later the model was sick and went to hospital then she died there, so after that Solons have introduced about a hundred Bills in deferent states made to censor motion picture. So there was deferent rules in deferent states.for instance, women could not smoke on screen in Kansas but they could in Ohio .A pregnant woman couldn’t appear on-screen in Pennsylvania but could in New

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