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Dmytryk was among those called to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947. Dmytryk briefly had been a Communist Party member in 1944 and 1945. He was persuaded by his former party associates to join nine other Hollywood figures in a public refusal to testify.
Dec 16, 2009 · While in prison, one member of the group, Edward Dmytryk, decided to cooperate with the government. In 1951, he testified at a HUAC hearing and provided the names of more than 20 industry ...
- 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.
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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.
Nov 13, 2009 · The Hollywood 10 responded with a joint statement in which they argued that HUAC had succeeded in having “the Congress cite the Bill of Rights for contempt.” “The United States,” the statement...
The agenda had moved on, as can be seen in the different tones created by Fred Zinnemann, in his film based on James Jones's best selling novel From Here to Eternity (1953) and by Edward Dmytryk in The Caine Mutiny, a major box-office success of 1954. Dmytryk had served his six-month jail term as one of the Hollywood Ten, but had then "cleared ...
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Edward Dmytryk. Ring Lardner. John Howard Lawson. Hollywood Ten, in U.S. history, 10 motion-picture producers, directors, and screenwriters who appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee in October 1947, refused to answer questions regarding their possible communist affiliations, and, after spending time in prison for contempt ...
