Hollywood traitors : blacklisted screenwriters : agents of Stalin, allies of Hitler /

Exposes the ugly truth about the Communists blacklisted from the film industry. Too often, the 'Hollywood Ten' brought before the House Un-American Activities Committee are memorialized as victims of an unjust witch hunt and heroes who stood up for free speech. The truth is shocking. Not o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ryskind, Allan H. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Regnery History, [2015]
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Table of Contents:
  • The Stalinist Ten
  • The birth of the Screen Writers Guild
  • "Communism ... must be fought for"
  • Anti-fascist, or pro-Stalin?
  • The Hollywood Anti-Nazi League
  • The pro-Hitler Congress
  • Red and brown sabotage
  • The American peace mobilization goes to war
  • Red propaganda in films
  • Blockade: the party targets Spain
  • Ninotchka slips through a red filter
  • Red heyday in Hollywood
  • Mission for Stalin
  • The great escape
  • The anti-Communists weigh in
  • The Cold War begins
  • Screenwriters embrace a comintern agent
  • HUAC
  • More friendly witnesses
  • Phil Dunne's strange crusade
  • The writers self-destruct
  • Portents of disaster
  • The screen writer: red as a rose
  • Emmet Lavery's critical turnaround
  • The blacklist begins
  • Game, set, match
  • Herb Sorrell and the CSU strike
  • Reagan outwits the reds
  • The silencing of Albert Maltz
  • Dalton Trumbo, Communist conformist
  • From pacifist to holy warrior
  • Lillian Hellman: scarlet woman, scarlet lies
  • Donald Ogden Stewart: Hollywood revolutionary
  • John Howard Lawson: the CP's "grand pooh-bah"
  • Elia Kazan deserved his Oscar
  • Arthur Miller: was he or wasn't he?
  • The curious case of Michael Blankfort
  • Reds on the blacklist
  • Rehabilitating ex-reds
  • Red reminiscences
  • Hollywood today.