Get Rid of the Commies: A Blacklisted Boyhood

15.12.2024 09:16

CounterPunch

In October 1947 19 screenwriters, directors and producers were summoned from Tinseltown to Washington to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee about alleged subversion in the motion picture industry. Eleven of those subpoenaed testified, including the so-called “Hollywood Ten,” and the German playwright Bertolt Brecht. Eight of the “Hollywood Nineteen” were not called then […]

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