Consequences
If celebrities are found to be breaking rules too frequently, their contracting studios may be forced to loan them out to other production companies as a form of punishment. It doesn’t sound like a bad idea until you consider that stars were not paid for films they made outside of their home studio.
Banned Movies
Then came the infamous legend, known as the Hays Code, which added to an already manipulative industry. When the government threatened to remove films with content it deemed objectionable, studios implemented their own self-censorship system.