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May 11, 2023 · RBML researcher and Swansea University PhD candidate, Gary Ley writes a guest essay about delving into the Albert Maltz collection at Columbia. Maltz, a screenwriter, novelist, and playwright, was jailed after his refusal to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee regarding his membership in the Communist Party.
Albert Maltz and Intellectual Freedom. House of Un-American Activities Committee. Blacklisted. Primary Sources. Albert Maltz was born in Brooklyn in 1908. Educated at Columbia University and the Yale School of Drama, he was converted to socialism by reading the New Masses. He later told Victor S. Navasky: "I also read the Marxist classics.
Nov 20, 2023 · Albert Maltz was not an apolitical writer. A member of the Communist Party, Maltz employed the medium, as did many other politically charged writers of the time, to fight against antisemitism, racism, and capitalism. In 1947, Maltz was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) as one of the Hollywood Ten.
Apr 28, 1985 · Writer Albert Maltz, one of the "Hollywood 10," whose careers were overshadowed if not eclipsed by their refusal to betray their friends and principles by testifying before the House Un-American ...
Oct 12, 2020 · Mug shot of Albert Maltz taken at Mill Point Federal Prison in West Virginia on July 17, 1950. Albert Maltz papers, Box 1, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming. Before he was sent to the federal lockup in Ashland, Ky. — the same facility that housed Adrian Scott, a fellow member of the Hollywood Ten — Maltz recruited his friend ...
Jan 23, 2024 · Albert Maltz’s desire to write a prison novel did not begin with his incarceration in 1950 for refusing to answer the question, “Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist ...
Albert Maltz ( New York, 1908. október 28. – Los Angeles, 1985. április 26.) amerikai regényíró, forgatókönyvíró. Az 1970-es években két filmjénél forgatókönyvíróként a John B. Sherry álnevet használta. [8]
