#OTD 1947 – The House Un-American Activities Committee began its investigation into 'Communist' infiltration of Hollywood, resulting in a 'blacklist', that killed some (#JohnGarfield), and prevented many socialists from working in the industry for years.
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#Blacklist Edward Dmytryk * Dalton Trumbo * Dorothy Parker * Lillian Hellman * Canada Lee * Paul Robeson * Larry Adler * Leonard Bernstein * Joseph E Bromberg * Vera Caspary * Lee J Cobb * Howard Da Silva * Howard Duff * José Ferrer * John Garfield * Will Geer * Dashiell Hammett
Carl Foreman * Garson Kanin * Ruth Gordon * EY Yip Harburg * Judy Holliday * Lena Horne * Marsha Hunt * Burl Ives * Joseph Losey * Burgess Meredith * Zero Mostel * Anne Revere * Gale Sondergaard * Sam Wanamaker * Fredi Washington * Orson Welles * Harry Belafonte * Charlie Chaplin
Eddie Albert + Margo * Barbara Bel Geddes * John Cromwell * Jules Dassin * Dolores del Río * Cy Enfield * Frances Farmer * Lee Grant * Kim Hunter * John Ireland * Alexander Knox * Norman Lloyd * Karen Morley * Larry Parks + Betty Garrett * Bernard Vorhaus en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood…
#HollywoodBlacklist How McCarthy used 'Red Scare' to promote his career.
"Finally dethroned in 1954 — at a televised hearing, a defense attorney famously said to him, 'Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?'"
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When the movie first came out, it fell under suspicion from FBI and HUAC.
"The film represents an obvious attempt to discredit bankers, so they would be the most hated in the picture. According to our sources, this is a common trick used by Communists."
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"Actors, Screenwriters, Directors, Musicians, and others working in entertainment professionals were barred from working for the studios. Usually on the basis of membership in, alleged membership in, or sympathy with the Communist Party USA, or on their pleading First Amendment."
Screenwriter Lester Cole * Actors Alexander Knox and Marsha Hunt all #blacklisted by #HUAC
Produced between Aug-Oct 1943 (over 18 months before WW2 in Europe ended)
(The prosecution of war criminals was ratified by Allies in Moscow Declarations in 1943).
#OTD 1947 – Walt Disney testifies at House Un-American Activities Committee.
He named former Disney workers he believed were communists. Humphrey Bogart, Lucille Ball, Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, others, abstained without being blacklisted.
As the 1941 strike wore on, Walt Disney became increasingly bitter. Despite there being very few leftists in the SCG union, he published a letter in Variety claiming that: “Communist agitation, leadership, and activities have brought about this strike.”
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#OTD 1997 – Paul Jarrico, 82, US blacklisted screenwriter. (b. 1915)
Screenplays: I Am the Law (1938) Tom Dick and Harry * Song of Russia (request by FDR - Warner Bros) * The Search * #IdaLupino's Not Wanted * The White Tower * The Las Vegas Story (1952)
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#OTD 1997 – Paul Jarrico, 82, US blacklisted screenwriter. (b. 1915)
(Blacklist) The Man Who Watched Trains Go By (1953) The Salt of the Earth (1954) All Night Long (1962 UK) Call Me Bwana (1963) La Balada de Johnny Ringo (1966) l Bilitis (film) (1977) Messenger of Death (1988)
#BOTD 1918 – 2007 Bernard Gordon, US blacklisted screenwriter, producer.
The Flesh and Fury * The Lawless Breed (Blacklisted) He then worked with legendary maverick producer Sam Katzman using pseudonyms, Law vs Billy the Kid * Earth vs Flying Saucers * Zombies of Mora Tau (1957)
#BOTD 1918 – 2007 Bernard Gordon, US blacklisted screenwriter.
Ironically he wrote Hellcats of Navy (starring Ronald and Nancy Reagan) * With Philip Yordan, still no credit Circus World * Battle of Bulge * Custer of West * Day of Triffids * Thin Red Line * Cry of Battle (1963)
In 1951 his Hollywood career ended by Edward Dmytryk forced testimony to House Un-American Activities Committee.
Vorhaus, was then working in Italy, and did not testify. He settled in England with his Welsh-born wife. Their son formed the psychedelic electronic band White Noise.
Bernard Vorhaus, (b. 1904 - 2000) filmmaker. #Blacklisted for advocating social values, against corrupt capitalist and racism?
The Spiritualist (1947) Cinematography by John Alton was his last film as Director. He worked on five other films until 1953 😢
#BOTD 1922 – 2005 Barbara Bel Geddes, 82, US blacklisted actress.
The Long Night (1947) * I Remember Mama (OscarNom) * Elia Kazan’s Panic in the Streets 1950) The House Un-American Activities Committee put her name on Hollywood blacklist during 1950s. #Hitchcock Vertigo (1958)
#BOTD 1922 – 2005 Barbara Bel Geddes, 82, US blacklisted actress.
Naive and poor Leonora weds a millionaire, (based on Howard Hughes?), but because of his obsessive behaviour, escapes him, and starts work at a Doctor's Practice. (James Mason's Hollywood debut)
Max Ophüls (1949)
#OTD 2000 – Ring Lardner, Jr., 85, US blacklisted screenwriter (b. 1915)
One of "Hollywood Ten", blacklisted by studios in late 1940s after his appearance as an "unfriendly" witness before the HUAC, leading to his being found guilty of contempt of Congress, and imprisonment.
#OTD 2000 – Ring Lardner, Jr. 85, US blacklisted screenwriter (b. 1915)
Woman of the Year (1942 w. Michael Kanin Best Original Screenplay Oscar) He worked on Laura (1944) Forever Amber (1947) Finally credited Cincinnati Kid (1965), M*A*S*H (1970 Oscar Best Adapted Screenplay)
#BOTD 1922 – 2002 Kim Hunter, (b. Janet Cole), 79, US blacklisted actress.
Film debut Seventh Victim (1943) * Tender Comrade * A Canterbury Tale (UK) * A Matter of Life and Death (UK) * Streetcar Named Desire (1951 'Stella', Oscar Best Supporting Actress) * Deadline USA * (1952)
#BOTD 1922 – 2002 Kim Hunter, 79, US blacklisted actress.
Her Oscar and role in Deadline USA, should have led to more roles, instead, she came up against the HUAC named by her director Elia Kazan, blacklisted for several years, films few and far between
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#BOTD 1922 – 2002 Kim Hunter, 79, US blacklisted actress.
Bermuda Affair * Storm Center (both 1956) Young Stranger (1957) Money, Women, Guns (1958) Lilith (1964) Planet of the Apes (Dr Zira) The Swimmer (both 1968) Beneath Planet of Apes (1970) Escape from Planet of Apes (1971)
#BOTD 1922 – 2002 Kim Hunter, 79, US blacklisted actress.
She played Stella Kowalski in original Broadway A Streetcar Named Desire and film, winning Oscar and Golden Globe. She was blacklisted from film and TV in 1950s, named a communist by friend, director Elia Kazan at HUAC.
"Newspaper 'The Day' is in trouble. Its editor, Ed Hutchison's worked hard, but circulation is declining. Now publisher (Ethel Barrymore) wants to sell. Hutch's
only hope of saving the paper, and his marriage is to publish his exposé on the city's Mafia."
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#BOTD 1922 – 2002 Kim Hunter, 79, US blacklisted actress.
"You're married to a madman. You are talking about desire, brutal desire. The name of that streetcar that bangs through the Quarter, up one old narrow street and down another.
Haven't you ever ridden on that streetcar?"
#BOTD 1922 – 2002 Kim Hunter, 79, US blacklisted actress.
"Don't you ever talk that way to me. 'Pig' 'Polack' 'disgusting' 'vulgar' greasy' — those kind of words have been on you and your sister's tongue just too much around here. What do you think you are .. a pair of queens?"
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