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Alvah Cecil Bessie (June 4, 1904 – July 21, 1985) was an American novelist, journalist and screenwriter who was blacklisted by the movie studios for being one of the Hollywood Ten who refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Jul 24, 1985 · Alvah Bessie, a writer whose politics took him to Spain to fight in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade during the Spanish Civil War and years later to Washington, where he refused to tell the House...
- Alvah Bessie (1904 – 1985) The son of a New York businessman, Bessie joined Eugene O’Neill’s Provincetown Players as an actor after graduating from Columbia University.
- Herbert J. Biberman (1900 – 1971) Biberman began his career at age 28, directing plays and helping run the Theatre Guild in New York City. In 1935, he moved to Hollywood, where he graduated from dialogue director to writer to director of modest films, including Meet Nero Wolfe (1936), King of Chinatown (1939) and The Master Race (1944), an anti-Nazi film.
- Lester Cole (1904 – 1985) The child of Polish immigrants, Cole (ne Cohn) owed his political leanings to his Marxist father, who was a garment union organizer in New York City.
- Edward Dmytryk (1908 – 1999) Born in Grand Forks, British Columbia, Dmytryk was the second of four sons of Ukrainian immigrants. His father, a severe disciplinarian who bounced between jobs as truck driver, smelter worker and motorman, moved his family to San Francisco and then to Los Angeles.
Dec 16, 2009 · Alvah Bessie was one of the 10 Hollywood screenwriters and directors who defied the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947 and denounced its anti-communist probe. He and the other Hollywood Ten were jailed, blacklisted and vilified for their actions during the Cold War.
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- Alvah Bessie (1904–1985) Alvah Bessie was a novelist, journalist and screenwriter who was blacklisted by Hollywood. During the 1930s, writer Alvah Bessie became concerned with the rise of fascism in Europe.
- Herbert J. Biberman (1900–1971) Herbert J. Biberman wrote the screenplays for several movies in the 1930s and ’40s, including the anti-Nazi film The Master Race (1944), which he also directed.
- Ring Lardner Jr. (1915–2000) Ring Lardner, Jr., (left), and Lester Cole, are shown as they arrived at U. S. District Court for their trial.
- Lester Cole (1904–1985) Lester Cole was a prolific screenwriter who co founded the Screen Writers Guild in 1933 with John Howard Lawson and Samuel Ornitz, two other writers who would later join him in the Hollywood 10.
Jul 24, 1985 · Alvah Bessie, an author and screenwriter and one of the ''Hollywood 10'' held in contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions during hearings in 1947 into alleged Communist influence...
The 10 were Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, Lester Cole, Edward Dmytryk, Ring Lardner, Jr., John Howard Lawson, Albert Maltz, Samuel Ornitz, Adrian Scott, and Dalton Trumbo. The group originally included the German writer Bertolt Brecht , but Brecht fled the country on the day following his inquest, and the remaining 10 were voted in contempt ...
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