Show notes
Welcome to 1923!
We're talking the final straw that broke Hollywood and prompted the Hays Code, the Berkeley fire, and the persistent proposals of King George VI that led to a very fancy wedding.
All of this, plus the year's top 5 songs and top 5 silent films.
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Intro Music: "Just Like a Rainbow" by The Columbians, licensed under the public domain license, found at https://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Columbians/Antique_Phonograph_Music_Program_08252015/Just_Like_A_Rainbow
https://www.filmsite.org/1923.html http://m.american-historama.org/1929-1945-depression-ww2-era/hays-code.htm http://users.monash.edu/~pringle/silent/ssotm/Dec97/ https://www.goldensilents.com/stars/wallacereid.html https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.huffpost.com/us/entry/4130094/amp https://www.google.com/amp/s/timeline.com/amp/p/6b27a1404552 https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/film/2017/oct/19/moguls-and-starlets-100-years-of-hollywoods-corrosive-systemic-sexism IMDbhttps://tsort.info/music/yr1923.htm
https://royalcentral.co.uk/uk/looking-back-at-the-wedding-of-king-george-vi-and-queen-elizabeth-80990/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding_of_Prince_Albert,_Duke_of_York,_and_Lady_Elizabeth_Bowes-Lyon
https://www.unofficialroyalty.com/wedding-of-king-george-vi-of-the-united-kingdom-and-lady-elizabeth-bowes-lyon/
http://www.sfmuseum.org/oakfire/berkeley.html