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  • Golden Globe Awards

Michelle Williams, 2000 on Social Responsibility – Out of the Archives

Michelle Williams, a twice Golden Globe winner for her acting out of six nominations, plays the mother (Paul Dano is the father) in The Fabelmans (2022) directed by Steven Spielberg. We went back into our extensive archives of exclusive HFPA interviews to report what the young actress said when she first spoke to the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press in the year 2000 at the age of 19 about the TV movie sequel If These Walls Could Talk 2.
  • Industry

Forgotten Hollywood: The Real Dark Side

In 1921, after the court case in which actor Fatty Arbuckle was tried for rape and murder (and eventually acquitted), Universal was the first studio to insert so-called ‘morality clauses’ in actors’ contracts. The clause read: “[H]e (she) will not do or commit anything tending to degrade him (her) in society or bring him (her) into public hatred, contempt, scorn or ridicule, or tending to shock, insult or offend the community or outrage public morals or decency, or tending to the prejudice of the Universal Film Manufacturing Company or the motion picture industry.