InThe ApparatusbyJ Gray·Oct 23Three Ways to Be Blacklisted: Marsha Hunt, John Garfield and Zero MostelMarsha Hunt, John Garfield and Zero Mostel faced the blacklist through different routes. None was convicted of contempt of Congress.
InThe ApparatusbyJ Gray·Oct 22Alvah Bessie Fought Franco. HUAC Put His Brigade Service on the Record.In 1947, HUAC cited Alvah Bessie’s service with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade as evidence of Communist ties.
InThe ApparatusbyJ Gray·Oct 22The Union They Built, Then Lost: John Howard Lawson and Lester ColeThey founded the union meant to protect screenwriters. Fourteen years later, officers took one of them from the witness stand.
InThe ApparatusbyJ Gray·Oct 21The Ones Who Never Got It Back: Samuel Ornitz and Adrian ScottOrnitz never returned to Hollywood screenwriting. Scott came back to studio work, and his wife remembered the return as a disaster.
InThe ApparatusbyJ Gray·Oct 21Names on the Screen: Ring Lardner Jr., Albert Maltz and the Uneven End of the BlacklistOne returned to screen credit in 1965 and won another Oscar in 1971. The other regained a credited theatrical screenplay in 1970.
InThe ApparatusbyJ Gray·Oct 20Same Year, Same Choice, Opposite Fates: Edward Dmytryk and Larry ParksBoth named names to HUAC in 1951. One directed The Caine Mutiny; Parks never regained a sustained screen career.
InThe ApparatusbyJ Gray·Oct 20The Film America Tried to Bury: Herbert Biberman and Gale SondergaardCongress denounced it, the FBI investigated it, and only 13 theatres showed it. It’s now in the National Film Registry.
Molly Martin·Oct 6Murphy: HUAC Is Un-AmericanHe Stands Up Against Attacks on HollywoodA response icon1A response icon1
InThe ApparatusbyJ Gray·Sep 21Abel Meeropol: The Schoolteacher Who Wrote Strange Fruit, Then Adopted the Rosenberg SonsHe wrote it under a pseudonym built from his own dead children’s names. Then he raised two more children the state had orphaned.
