...journalist who courageously stood up to Sen. Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s during the hearings of the House Un-American Activities Committee. Shot in austere black and white, the film features some real star power. George Clooney plays producer...
...he was blacklisted during the 1950s, writing under a series of pseudonyms. In 1957, he stymied the House Un-American Activities Committee when he walked across the stage to accept an Oscar for his simple story of a boy trying to save a bull...
...not a loser in the lot: SALT OF THE EARTH (1954): Made by actors and filmmakers blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee, this union-funded film about a miners' strike in New Mexico was never officially banned. During...
...medicine. Corey tried to join the Communist Party back when doing so could mean an appearance before the House Un-American Activities Committee. But it was the Communist Party, not the government, that blacklisted him. "I wanted to join the...
...left-leaning movies that dealt with race and politics while testifying against his peers before the House Un-American Activities Committee. He believed the craft of acting was far more important than a performer's box-office numbers...
...union and served as a librarian in Buffalo's Communist Party. In 1957, he was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee. "Rogovin, named as top red in Buffalo, balks at nearly all queries," read the headline the next...
...Kazan had long been criticized because he named names of his former Communist Party comrades before the House Un-American Activities committee in 1952. After the academy announced the honor, he was attacked as a traitor by those whose defiance...
...left-wing thinking in the 1930s and '40s became suspicious thinking in the Cold War era. In 1953, the House Un-American Activities Committee pressured Groucho through Jerry Fielding, bandleader for the comedian's TV game show "You Bet Your...
...admitted the obvious, that he was a Communist, and the writer is condemning Hollywood and the 1947 House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), because he was blacklisted from films "when Columbia Pictures dropped his contract?" It...
...was originally intended to deal with the communist threat like the state's version of the (U.S.) House Un-American Activities Committee," he said. "Occasionally, it would rear its head when there would be either civil rights or anti-war...
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