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* [[MGM]] when it outright defied the [[Hays Code]] and released ''[[Blowup]]'' despite their attempts to stop it to great critical and box office success.
* [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s ''[[Psycho]]'':From imdb: There is a rumor that the this film was not passed for release because it was claimed that Janet Leigh's nipple was visible during the shower scene. The nipple wasn't in the film at all, but the cinematography and score are so well performed here, it caused the release board originally to think that there was a nipple visible and send the film back for re-editing. The production team went through the shower sequence cut by cut to illustrate that there was not. Alfred Hitchcock made no changes (none were needed), but merely sent it back, assuming that they either wouldn't bother to watch it, or would realize their mistake.
** Actually, the breasts of Janet Leigh's body double are just about visible, as you can see [https://web.archive.org/web/20120919225309/http://hitchcock.dreamhosters.com/hitch/misc/shower1/nudity1.jpg here]. Certainly it's not very obvious, however.
* [[Otto Preminger]] famously in 1953 released ''[[The Moon Is Blue]]'' without [[Hays Code]] approval, and had to do the same with ''[[The Man With The Golden Arm]]''. Preminger had to pressure the censors to pass ''[[Anatomy of a Murder]]'', whose dialogue on the subject of rape was fairly explicit for its time.
* Producer David O. Selznick insisted that the famous line "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" had to be included in the final cut of ''[[Gone with the Wind]]''. The censors relented, but not without slapping a $5,000 fine on Selznick.
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