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Albert Maltz (/ m ɔː l t s /; October 28, 1908 – April 26, 1985) was an American playwright, fiction writer and screenwriter. He was one of the Hollywood Ten who were jailed in 1950 for their 1947 refusal to testify before the US Congress about their involvement with the Communist Party USA .
Nov 20, 2023 · When Communist writer Albert Maltz was blacklisted in the McCarthyist era, no commercial publisher in the United States would touch his novel A Tale of One January. A new edition slated for US distribution means his 70-year blacklist will finally end.
Nov 11, 2009 · In 1946, Albert Maltz – Communist, screenwriter, novelist and future member of the Hollywood Ten – penned a controversial article in which he made a plea for artistic freedom.
- John Sbardellati
- 2009
Oct 12, 2020 · By 1935, Maltz had joined the American Communist Party. Professional people, journalists, teachers, writers, artists and working people on factories and farms had come to respect the Communist Party for their words and deeds over the past decade in support of the working man.
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...
Hollywood Ten, motion-picture producers, directors, and screenwriters who refused to answer questions before the House Un-American Activities Committee regarding their possible communist affiliations.
Oct 9, 2018 · “The long interval between the first and second investigations,” according to blacklisted writer Albert Maltz, resulted from the fact “that the legal case of the Hollywood Ten was proceeding through the Courts during that time.”
