Commentary
Who is Joseph I. Breen? Most people have never heard of the man whom “Variety” called “one of the most influential figures in American culture” in 1965, adding that “more than any single individual, he shaped the moral stature of the American motion picture.” Thirty years earlier, American weekly “Liberty Magazine” said that Joseph Breen had “more influence in standardizing world thinking than Mussolini, Hitler, or Stalin.” What was Breen’s position that he wielded such influence?
