Hollywood 10 Cited: The Red Scare Intensifies
The U.S. House of Representatives voted 346 to 17 on November 24, 1947, to cite ten Hollywood screenwriters and directors for contempt of Congress after they refused to answer questions about alleged Communist affiliations before the House Un-American Activities Committee. The Hollywood Ten, including Dalton Trumbo, Ring Lardner Jr., and Edward Dmytryk, were convicted, fined, and sentenced to prison terms of six months to one year. The major studios immediately blacklisted them. The blacklist expanded to include hundreds of writers, actors, and directors over the next decade. Many worked under pseudonyms. Trumbo wrote the screenplay for Roman Holiday under a front, and the Oscar went to his alias. The blacklist gradually collapsed in the early 1960s when Kirk Douglas credited Trumbo by name for Spartacus.
November 24, 1947
79 years ago
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