 Mae West (qv) was signed by Paramount in 1931 to make a film  adaptation of her stage success Diamond Lil. They then spent the  next two years trying to figure out a way of getting the material  past the censors. The battle over Diamond Lil led to the head of  the Production Board, James Wingate, quitting and being replaced by  the much more hardline Joseph Breen who was prompted to set up a  fairly stringent and moral Production Code. In the meantime,  Diamond Lil transformed into the slightly watered down "She Done  Him Wrong" and was one of the last films to be made before the  introduction of the Production Code.