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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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