Jack Valenti

Jack Valenti, American businessman, created the MPAA film rating system (died 2007)

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Born: September 5, 1921
Died: April 26, 2007
Zodiac sign: Virgo
Birth year: 1921

About Jack Valenti

Jack Joseph Valenti was an American political advisor and lobbyist who served as a Special Assistant to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. He was also the longtime president of the Motion Picture Association of America. During his 38-year tenure in the MPAA, he created the MPAA film rating system, and was generally regarded as one of the most influential pro-copyright lobbyists in the world. In 1952, he and a partner named Weldon Weekley founded the advertising agency Weekley & Valenti, with oil company Conoco as its first client. He then became the first "special assistant" to Johnson's White House and lived there for the first two months of Johnson's presidency.

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The world when Jack Valenti was born

Jack Valenti was born in 1921. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1921

#1 song"My Man" – Fanny Brice
Top movieThe Kid (Charlie Chaplin)
Best-selling bookMain Street – Sinclair Lewis

Headlines and milestones

Major sports momentJack Dempsey vs Georges Carpentier — first million-dollar gate
Top headlineWarren G. Harding inaugurated as 29th President
Technology milestoneAlbert Einstein wins the Nobel Prize in Physics
Defining fadOuija boards
Notable inventionLie detector (polygraph)
World population1.88 billion

United States snapshot

U.S. leaderWarren G. Harding
Sports championNew York Giants (World Series)
U.S. population108.5M

1921 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Jack Valenti's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure	1921	2026
Gas	$0.26	$3.45/gal
Average home	$5,500	$435,000
Average income	$3,010	$67,500
Movie ticket	$0.15	$11.95
Postage stamp	$0.02	$0.73
Population	108.5M	341 million

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