Original Typed Letter Signed by Will H. Hays to Director Alfred E. Green on Printed Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America, Inc. Stationery

New York: MPPDA, August 5, 1922. Original Typed Letter Signed by Will H. Hays to director Alfred E. Green on printed Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America, Inc. stationery, dated August 5, 1922. The letter reads in full: “My dear Mr. Green, I want to send this additional word of appreciation for the many kindnesses which were shown me last week in Los Angeles. I am very grateful. My one hope is that I may be of the very greatest possible service. With very best wishes always, I am Sincerely yours, Will H. Hays.” At the time this letter was written Will Hays had been the president of the Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America (MPPDA) for eight months whose intention was to renovate the image of the movie industry by eventually creating a stringently moral system of censorship for films, The Production Code, which also was quite lucrative for his organization. Hays was also involved in the Teapot Dome Scandal and Minor creases from folding and with a hint of age-toning, else in fine condition. Alfred E. Green (1889 - 1960) directed some of the brightest stars of his time, including Mary Pickford, Wallace Reid, Colleen Moore, and Bette Davis who won a Best Actress Oscar for her role in his 1935 film Dangerous. He is otherwise best known for his films Baby Face (1933) with Barbara Stanwyk and George Brent, The Jolson Story (1946) with Larry Parks, Evelyn Keyes, and William Demarest, and The Jackie Robinson Story (1950) with Jackie Robinson, Ruby Dee, and Minor Robinson. He made his last feature, Top Banana, with Phil Silvers in 1954 and spent the remainder of his career directing episodic TV series. Jesse Louis Lasky (1880 – 1958) was an American pioneer motion picture producer and founder of Paramount Pictures with Adolph Zukor, and father of screenwriter Jesse L. Lasky, Jr. Some of Lasky’s best known films include It with Clara Bow, Wings (1929) which won Oscars for Best Picture and Best Effects, and starred Clara Bow, Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers, Richard Arlen, and Jobyna Ralston, the Marx Brothers film The Cocoanuts (1929), and Sergeant York (1941) with Gary Cooper. (Inventory #: 20737E)