Under the working title of I'm for Rent, Glamour for Sale ran into trouble during pre-production in April 1940, when the Hays Office (the motion picture self-censorship board created by the industry in order to avoid federal and local censorship) reviewed the script and sent a memo to the producers, warning them against showing "excessive drinking" and "rolling" drunks for money. Harry's suicide was discouraged because "as the means of solving a problem [it] is frowned upon by the industry," as well as creating blackmail and extortion schemes that could be "easily imitated" by the public. Even something as inconsequential as Ann stealing a book was criticized as "compounding a felony." The following month, another memo arrived about taking precautions when filming the scene in which Jim and Ann embrace on a couch. While Columbia complied with the Hays Office, the resulting film (shot in only three weeks from mid-July to August 7, 1940) was still too much for the censors in Australia, Trinidad and Ireland - they all rejected Glamour for Sale.
Released in September of 1940, the film made no great impact on the public or critics like The Hollywood Reporter, who panned it, saying "as long as pictures like Glamour for Sale are released, theatres will have to resort to lotteries and giveaways to keep their doors open."
by Lorraine LoBianco
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