"Hollywood on Trial" documentary, 1976. Names and other names

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In the snippets of the wingnuts who testified, ratted, stoolied, funny/odd how wingnuts are the same "type" then as now - yuk yuk good ol'boys with the inside "jokes", secret handshakes, and we're/wingnuts on the INSIDE - John WAYNE, RAYGUN blustering the same as he ever did, Gary COOPER saying his profession was "actor" with a shy aw-shucks "cuteness" pseudo-embarrassed self-deprecating smile, like he suspects *everybody* knows who/what he is. So cute (not). A-holes.

On the bright side, Lauren BACALL and BOGART and others attending to protest. And the Repuke chairman of the sub-committee eventually got jailed for corruption and ended up in the same Federal prison as Ring LARDNER, Jr.

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https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hollywood-Ten

Hollywood Ten,

in U.S. history, 10 motion-picture producers, directors, and screenwriters who appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee in October 1947, refused to answer questions regarding their possible communist affiliations, and, after spending time in prison for contempt of Congress, were mostly blacklisted by the Hollywood studios. The 10 were Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, Lester Cole, Edward Dmytryk, Ring Lardner, Jr., John Howard Lawson, Albert Maltz, Samuel Ornitz, Adrian Scott, and Dalton Trumbo.

The group originally included the German writer Bertolt Brecht, but Brecht fled the country on the day following his inquest, and the remaining 10 were voted in contempt of Congress on November 24, 1947. Convicted in federal court the following year, they were given sentences of six months to one year in prison. (While in prison, Dmytryk broke with the rest and agreed to cooperate, admitting being a communist and giving the names of 26 others.)


https://www.insidehook.com/article/history/hollywood-actors-blacklisted-during-the-red-scare

HISTORY | OCTOBER 20, 2017 9:00 AM
Hollywood Actors Who Were Blacklisted During the Red Scare
October 20th marks the 70th anniversary of the start of the notorious Red Scare.

Back in 1947, a Congressional committee began investigating Communist influence in Hollywood starting Oct. 20th.

The Cold War began to heat up between the United States and communist-controlled Soviet Union after World War II, writes History. The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) began questioning a number of prominent witnesses, asking “Are you or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?” Some witnesses gave the committee names, whether out of fear or patriotism. A small group, called The Hollywood Ten, resisted, History explains, saying this violated their First Amendment rights. All 10 were convicted of obstructing the investigation and served jail time. Hollywood then started a blacklist policy, banning the work of about 325 screenwriters, directors and actors who the committee had not yet cleared. Some people were able to keep working, whether it was through pseudonyms or crediting their friends. It wasn’t until the 1960s that the ban began to lift, and finally, in 1997, the Writers’ Guild of America unanimously voted to change the writing credits of 23 films made during the blacklist period, reports History.

Time put together a list of entertainers who were blacklisted. Check out some of them below. ....

Charlie Chaplin
Burgess Meredith
Orson Welles
Lena Horne
Langston Hughes
Arthur Miller
Pete Seeger
Gypsy Rose Lee
Leonard Bernstein
Dorothy Parker
John Garfield
Burl Ives
Uta Hagen
Judy Holliday
Artie Shaw
Dashiell Hammet
Lloyd Bridges

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1. That's the year "The Front" came out

Movie starring Woody Allen as Alvy Singer, a character who "fronted" for writers blacklisted by Commie hunters. It's a good dramatization of choices confronting creative folks in Hollywood, but what really knocks you out are the closing credits, listing people and the year they were blacklisted.

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2. Zero MOSTEL refused to testify.

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3. Here's one: The dark side of Coco CHANEL

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4. Welles is no surprise

He was a pretty solid leftist. TFG once said his favorite film was Citizen Kane, but I think TFG had a completely different interpretation of the film than everybody else had.