 The court decision determined that certain provisions of the New York State Education Law allowing a censor to forbid the commercial showing of any non-licensed motion picture film, or revoke or deny the license of a film deemed to be "sacrilegious", was a "restraint on freedom of speech" and thereby a violation of the First Amendment; in this case, the film in question was ""The Miracle"", directed by Roberto Rossellini, an Italian short film that was part of the anthology film "Ways of Love" (1950).Burstyn died in November 1953 of a coronary thrombosis during a TWA flight from New York to Rome.He collapsed several hours after the plane took off from Gander, Newfoundland.