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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 .
- Fiction writer and screenwriter
Nov 20, 2023 · By. Taylor Dorrell. 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. Seven Hollywood writers and directors arrive for trial at District Court ...
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. The article drew the condemnation of many of Maltz's peers, and the incident has been invoked as an example of Communist thought control since Maltz, under pressure ...
- 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. Maltz channeled his political views into his writing.
Mar 28, 2024 · 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 of Congress, were mostly blacklisted by the Hollywood studios.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Mar 24, 2023 · Albert Maltz (1908–1985) Albert Maltz is known for screenwriting films such as Pride of the Marines (1945), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for best adapted screenplay.
The 10 individuals were Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, Lester Cole, Edward Dmytryk, Ring Lardner Jr., John Howard Lawson, Albert Maltz, Samuel Ornitz, Robert Adrian Scott and Dalton Trumbo. The persecution and blacklisting of these 10 filmmakers — who later became known as the "Hollywood Ten" — was years in the making.
