By Bob Herzberg
In reading the careers of communist and liberal actors, screenwriters, playwrights, and administrators in Hollywood from the past due Nineteen Twenties to the current, this e-book makes use of studio and PCA correspondence, FBI records, movie and theater reports, and different resources to bare how all of those artists have been interested in and energetic within the cinema of social protest. It covers the works of these liberal stars and administrators who collaborated with communist artists in manhattan and Hollywood, together with John Garfield, Canada Lee, Frances Farmer, Paul Robeson, James Edwards, and Paul Muni; liberal filmmakers like Philip Dunne; and ex-communists (and HUAC-friendly witnesses) like Elia Kazan, Edward Dmytryk, and Robert Rossen. It additionally appears on the actions of the Communist get together in Hollywood and the far-reaching impression of the Soviet Union.
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For Paul, this experience in England was the first time he encountered people who didn’t harbor prejudice and he liked the feeling. It would never occur to him that the British, with their own history of racist colonialism and anti–Semitism, saw Robeson as an international performer, just as they did Josephine Baker. These African-American stars were not British natives, but foreigners not subject to England’s traditional treatment of blacks, who, unlike these visiting celebrities, were usually forced to live in miserable slums.
Indeed, until the advent of a better Communist writer (Dalton Trumbo, who would work on more prestigious films), Lawson was top dog of leftist screenwriters. In later years, he would even write a book about screenwriting — though, predictably, a highly biased one. Yet contentment and gratitude for his success was not the way of John Howard Lawson or the Hollywood Party. When F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote to his daughter Frances about what he saw in Hollywood’s Communists, he was obviously speaking from personal experience, having met and debated these people at industry parties.
The bosses want war because they make money from war. But we don’t want war. We say to hell with war. To hell with the bosses. ” In one ironic moment before this speech, especially considering the career of Albert Maltz, one company officer threatens the German workers with blacklisting: “I’ll have you blacklisted from every goddamn port from here to Shanghai. ” After indicting Andrews for turning his textile firm into a factory for the manufacture of munitions, Owens is railroaded for murder and taken away to be executed.