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...that former Chicago mayor William Hale Thompson (pictured) was cast in the 1927 silent exploitation film Is Your Daughter Safe? to ensure it would pass the city's censorship boards?
... that a comic book about Eva Perón was aborted during production because of political censorship to other works by the authors, and published posthumously instead?
... that The Lame Devil, Sacha Guitry's 1948 historical film, was blocked by French censorship and had to be turned into a successful play before being allowed filming?

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