Newspaper Movie ad (Ada Ok. Oct 10, 1939)
Tell Your Children
Following the Victor Licata murder case in 1933, a church group decided to finance a film showing the dangers of ‘marihuana’ to parents…
1933 Victor Licata mug shot and newspaper clipping
In 1936 the religious group, with actors/actresses on loan from ‘RKO Pictures’, wrote and filmed ‘Tell Your Children’.
The film was quickly bought and sold from the original producer George Hirliman by producer Dwain Esper. He Re-cut the film adding some extra scenes and release it in the south under the original name before changing the title region to region.
Some of the release titles were Tell Your Children,The Burning Question, Dope Addict, Doped Youth, Love Madness and of course Reefer Madness…
1940 release of ‘The Burning Question’ is the Pennsylvania/West Virginia release of ‘Tell Your Children’ aka ‘Reefer Madness’
With the success of ‘Reefer Madness’ the moral producer Dwain Esper started his next project…
This gem was his next project to be released after Reefer Madness called ‘How to Undress in Front of your Husband’…
‘How to Undress in Front of Your Husband’ 1937
June St. Clair in ‘How to Undress in Front of Your Husband’ 1937
‘How to Undress in Front of Your Husband’, 1937
Telling wives how to undress was so needed, it even made a full step by step article in Life magazine in 1937…
The Do’s and Don’t’s of Undressing in Life magazine 1937
The Do’s and Don’t’s of Undressing in Life magazine 1937
The Do’s and Don’t’s of Undressing in Life magazine 1937
I’m so glad upstanding moral movie makers had our kids best interest in mind…
Early ‘Reefer Madness’ movie poster