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[...] the Arbuckle scandal set off puritanical shrieks of horror, along with attendant calls for a complete Hollywood moral cleansing. Imported by Famous Players-Lasky to write titillating scenarios, Elinor Glyn needed to cool things down some by the time she wrote the scenarios for and consulted during filming on Beyond the Rocks. Gloria Swanson reports that the picture had to be less sensual than the studio and the public had hoped, because watchdogs from the newly formed Hays Office were on hand, ready to bark at the scent of anything they judged too risky.

One of the Hays Office's new rules stipulated that kisses should run no longer than three seconds. "So we shot each kiss twice," said Swanson, once for the American market, once for the European and South American. "Poor Rudy could barely get his nostrils flaring before the American version was over."