Birth name: Adolph Lorenz Schafer; A L Schafer; A. L. Schafer; A. L. "Whitey" Schafer; A. L. (Whitey) Schafer; Adolph L. (Whitey) Schafer; Adolph L. Schafer
English: Thou Shalt Not, photograph created by Whitey Schafer (1902/3–1951) in 1940 to protest the Hays Code. This image is in the public domain. It appears without a visible copyright notice in Yank, the Army Weekly, volume 4, issue 3, page 13 (6 July 1945) and on the cover page of Pre-Code Hollywood by Thomas Doherty (Columbia University Press 1999; ISBN 9780231500128). It was published in Yank in 1945 without a copyright notice but only appears with a copyright notice in Life, vol 21, no 18, p 79 (28 October 1946). On the back cover of Pre-Code Hollywood, the photo is listed as "Courtesy of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences"; it is presumably in the Academy's archives.
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Thou Shalt Not, 1940 photograph by Whitey Schafer
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Thou Shalt Not
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Thou Shalt Not
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Whitey Schafer
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1940
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