tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31493271914350050892024-03-13T12:59:20.894-07:00Holly Forrest TeachesBecause a class period just doesn't give us enough time to do ALL the good stuff...Fantastic Forresthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08044290192610027408noreply@blogger.comBlogger183125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149327191435005089.post-87462571492468436182012-04-13T10:50:00.002-07:002012-04-13T11:07:30.287-07:00Viola/Cesario<span style="font-size:130%;">Twelfth Night shows a female character who masquerades as a man:<br /><br />Imogen Stubbs as Viola/Cesario<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8DGoF0CQlU&feature=related"><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8DGoF0CQlU&feature=related</a><br /><br /><br />Helen Hunt as Viola in Twelfth Night - begin at 1:46<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG8U_iUo4mY"><br /> </a></span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG8U_iUo4mY">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG8U_iUo4mY</a>Fantastic Forresthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08044290192610027408noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149327191435005089.post-23962514192149571742012-04-13T10:47:00.003-07:002012-04-13T10:50:40.900-07:00Beatrice<span style="font-size:130%;">Monologue illuminates her character - Emma Thompson in Much Ado, 1993<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl0lBHti99A&feature=fvsr">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl0lBHti99A&feature=fvsr</a><br /><br />Dialogue illuminates further, with Benedick as foil - Thompson and Kenneth Branagh in Much Ado<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf_UK4axr_E"><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf_UK4axr_E</a></span>Fantastic Forresthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08044290192610027408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149327191435005089.post-51072548740871521282012-04-13T08:31:00.005-07:002012-04-13T10:10:36.387-07:00Shakespeare's People<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QYEDVBA3xeQ/T4hd_Q_yD9I/AAAAAAAABbM/LXLm08VeGIE/s1600/Malvoliodress.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QYEDVBA3xeQ/T4hd_Q_yD9I/AAAAAAAABbM/LXLm08VeGIE/s400/Malvoliodress.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5730933867304587218" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Items for today's lecture:<br /><br /><br /><br />Henry V 1989- Branagh <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAvmLDkAgAM"><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAvmLDkAgAM</a><br /><br />Henry V - 1944 - Olivier - note clanking of armour<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9fa3HFR02E&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PLE2005B7B5FAB8586"><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9fa3HFR02E&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PLE2005B7B5FAB8586</a><br /><br />Renaissance Man - Gregory Hines, Lillo Brancato, Danny DeVito 1994<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luqr-UX_oSM&feature=related"><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luqr-UX_oSM&feature=related</a><br /><br /><br />***********<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Polonius<br /><br />1990 - Iam Holm, Nathaniel Parker, Helena Bonham Carter<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfV1DneGttI"><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfV1DneGttI</a><br /><br />2000 - Bill Murray, Liev Shreiber, Julia Stiles<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXS2esgBvxQ&feature=BFa&list=PL8647C39F55D6D68C&lf=results_main">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXS2esgBvxQ&feature=BFa&list=PL8647C39F55D6D68C&lf=results_main</a><br /><br />Gilligan's Island - Alan Hale Jr, Dawn Wells, Bob Denver, Tina Louise, Jim Backus 1964-7<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXId5jOTxdg&feature=BFa&list=PL8647C39F55D6D68C&lf=results_main">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXId5jOTxdg&feature=BFa&list=PL8647C39F55D6D68C&lf=results_main</a><br /><br /><br />This Is Hamlet - Howard Swain, Nicholas Pelczar, Anna Bullard - Stanford University 2010d<span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjLmGklbFxo&feature=autoplay&list=PL8647C39F55D6D68C&lf=results_main&playnext=1"><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjLmGklbFxo&feature=autoplay&list=PL8647C39F55D6D68C&lf=results_main&playnext=1</a><br /><br /><br />Richard III<br /><br />Ian McKellen, Maggie Smith 1995<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsGGjXZw1eQ&feature=related"><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsGGjXZw1eQ&feature=related</a><br /><br />Kevin Spacey<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1eoBTTFqbo&feature=related"><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1eoBTTFqbo&feature=related</a><br /><br /><br />Craig Ferguson<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLTvvwXaUno&feature=related"><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLTvvwXaUno&feature=related</a><br /><br /><br />Goodbye Girl - Richard Dreyfuss, Paul Benedict<a href="http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/474365/Goodbye-Girl-The-Movie-Clip-Don-t-Give-Me-Bette-Midler.html"><br />http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/474365/Goodbye-Girl-The-Movie-Clip-Don-t-Give-Me-Bette-Midler.html</a><br /><br /><br />*************<br /><br />Shylock<br /><br />Anthony Heald OSF<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i75gRqoXezM"><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i75gRqoXezM</a>Fantastic Forresthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08044290192610027408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149327191435005089.post-46257924054760339842012-02-08T11:56:00.003-08:002012-02-08T12:19:44.235-08:00Ring Lardner, Jr. Oral History Interview<span style="font-size:130%;">Here is the first of six segments of a lengthy interview with one of the Hollywood Ten.<br /><br />You can go to youtube for the remaining segments.</span><br /><br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/mZkbn5GDE0Q" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" width="420"></iframe>Fantastic Forresthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08044290192610027408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149327191435005089.post-10614461228718820952012-02-08T11:56:00.001-08:002012-02-08T11:56:44.735-08:00The Way We Were<iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/kl_Gp2qZJvM" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" width="420"></iframe>Fantastic Forresthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08044290192610027408noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149327191435005089.post-48007919798808515942012-02-08T11:54:00.001-08:002012-02-08T11:56:16.142-08:00The Majestic - Peter's Speech<iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/QwSk2vW1po0" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" width="420"></iframe>Fantastic Forresthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08044290192610027408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149327191435005089.post-60848278416325966572012-02-01T15:09:00.000-08:002012-02-01T15:14:40.355-08:00Joseph Losey inspiration for Scorsese character<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://twentyfourframes.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/joseph-losey.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 245px; height: 300px;" src="http://twentyfourframes.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/joseph-losey.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Fantastic Forresthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08044290192610027408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149327191435005089.post-82366518520503729812012-02-01T15:04:00.000-08:002012-02-01T15:05:19.170-08:00Helen Gahagan Douglas - The Pink Lady<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/reliable-source/nixon18.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 454px; height: 332px;" src="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/reliable-source/nixon18.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Fantastic Forresthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08044290192610027408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149327191435005089.post-14930031191720221352012-02-01T15:02:00.001-08:002012-02-01T15:03:12.487-08:00Dorothy Comingore, inspiration for Dorothy Nolan in Guilty by Suspicion<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://classiccinemagold.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/dorothy-comingore-.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 454px; height: 587px;" src="http://classiccinemagold.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/dorothy-comingore-.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Fantastic Forresthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08044290192610027408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149327191435005089.post-55398546456253228072012-02-01T14:46:00.001-08:002012-02-01T14:46:52.263-08:00Blacklisted!<a href="http://www.wgbh.org/article/?item_id=3625029">http://www.wgbh.org/article/?item_id=3625029</a>Fantastic Forresthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08044290192610027408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149327191435005089.post-31333667229686742372012-02-01T12:24:00.000-08:002012-02-01T12:27:27.630-08:00Jenny Holzer: Blacklist<a href="http://fisher.usc.edu/collections/blacklist.html">http://fisher.usc.edu/collections/blacklist.html</a>Fantastic Forresthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08044290192610027408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149327191435005089.post-22278353814533262202012-02-01T12:16:00.001-08:002012-02-01T12:23:35.249-08:00Arthur Miller - The Crucible<table class="infobox vevent" style="width: 22em;" cellspacing="5"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2" class="summary" style="text-align: center; font-size: 125%; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">The Crucible</th> </tr> <tr class=""> <td colspan="2" class="" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cruciblecover.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/75/Cruciblecover.jpg/170px-Cruciblecover.jpg" height="265" width="170" /></a></td> </tr> <tr class=""> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space: nowrap;">Written by</th> <td class="description" style=""><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Miller" title="Arthur Miller">Arthur Miller</a></td> </tr> <tr class=""> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space: nowrap;">Characters</th> <td class="" style=""><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abigail_Williams" title="Abigail Williams">Abigail Williams</a><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hale_%28Beverly_minister%29" title="John Hale (Beverly minister)">Reverend John Hale</a><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Parris" title="Samuel Parris">Reverend Samuel Parris</a><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Proctor" title="John Proctor">John Proctor</a><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Proctor" title="Elizabeth Proctor">Elizabeth Proctor</a><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Danforth" title="Thomas Danforth">Thomas Danforth</a><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Warren" title="Mary Warren">Mary Warren</a><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hathorne" title="John Hathorne">John Hathorne</a><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giles_Corey" title="Giles Corey">Giles Corey</a></td> </tr> <tr class=""> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space: nowrap;">Date premiered</th> <td class="" style="">January 22, 1953</td> </tr> <tr class=""> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space: nowrap;">Place premiered</th> <td class="" style=""><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Beck_Theatre" title="Martin Beck Theatre" class="mw-redirect">Martin Beck Theatre</a>, New York City</td> </tr> <tr class=""> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space: nowrap;">Original language</th> <td class="" style="">English</td> </tr> <tr class=""> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space: nowrap;">Subject</th> <td class="" style=""><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials" title="Salem witch trials">Salem witch trials</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism" title="McCarthyism">McCarthyism</a></td> </tr> <tr class=""> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space: nowrap;">Genre</th> <td class="" style=""><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy" title="Tragedy">Tragedy</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drama" title="Drama">drama</a></td> </tr> <tr class=""> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space: nowrap;">Setting</th> <td class="" style=""><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem,_Massachusetts" title="Salem, Massachusetts">Salem, Massachusetts</a></td> </tr> <tr class=""> <td colspan="2" class="" style="text-align: center;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ibdb.com/show.asp?id=2847">IBDB profile</a></td> </tr> </tbody></table> <i><b>The Crucible</b></i> is a 1952 play by the American playwright <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Miller" title="Arthur Miller">Arthur Miller</a>. It is a dramatization of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials" title="Salem witch trials">Salem witch trials</a> that took place in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Massachusetts_Bay" title="Province of Massachusetts Bay">Province of Massachusetts Bay</a> during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory" title="Allegory">allegory</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism" title="McCarthyism">McCarthyism</a>, when the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_government_of_the_United_States" title="Federal government of the United States">US government</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacklist" title="Blacklist">blacklisted</a> accused communists.<sup id="cite_ref-blakesleym_0-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crucible#cite_note-blakesleym-0"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a></sup> Miller himself was questioned by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">House of Representatives'</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Un-American_Activities_Committee" title="House Un-American Activities Committee">Committee on Un-American Activities</a> in 1956 and convicted of "contempt of Congress" for refusing to identify others present at meetings he had attended.<br /><br /><br />Student made trailer for film version<br /><br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/LAvyojhUyZE" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" width="420"></iframe><br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crucible#cite_note-1"><span></span></a>Fantastic Forresthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08044290192610027408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149327191435005089.post-15427391579624711192012-02-01T12:03:00.000-08:002012-02-01T12:05:25.121-08:00Walter Bernstein on Blacklisting and Fronts<a href="http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/walter-bernstein-2">http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/walter-bernstein-2</a>Fantastic Forresthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08044290192610027408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149327191435005089.post-1167905586441419942012-02-01T12:02:00.000-08:002012-02-01T12:03:02.732-08:00Woody Allen's The FrontWarning: Bad language<br /><br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/AE5rvXn9Wkc" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" width="420"></iframe>Fantastic Forresthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08044290192610027408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149327191435005089.post-42599951673022949082012-02-01T11:53:00.000-08:002012-02-01T12:01:57.401-08:00Zero Mostel by Jim Brochu "Zero Hour"<span id="eow-date" class="watch-video-date"></span> <div id="watch-description-text"> <p id="eow-description">From the play "Zero Hour" written and performed by Jim Brochu, famed actor Zero Mostel talks about the Hollywood Blacklist and the House Unamerican Activities Committee, and about "Loose Lips," Jerome Robbins who gave names.</p><p id="eow-description"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM_Tjc1H1t4"><br /></a></p><p id="eow-description"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM_Tjc1H1t4">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM_Tjc1H1t4</a><br /></p> </div>Fantastic Forresthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08044290192610027408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149327191435005089.post-18941853016583778452012-01-25T15:08:00.000-08:002012-01-25T15:13:26.828-08:00Alvah Bessie<span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:Black;"><span style="color:Teal;"><span style="color:#000000;"><br />Bessie held strong left-wing views and <span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:Black;"><span style="color:Teal;"><span style="color:#000000;">joined the </span><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/SPinternational.htm">International Brigades</a></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:Black;"><span style="color:Teal;"><span style="color:#000000;"> during the <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WARspain.htm">Spanish Civil War</a> fought alongside <span class="style3"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/SPmerriman.htm"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Robert Merriman</span></a></span></span>, <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/SPdoran.htm" class="style3"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">David Doran</span></a>, <span class="style3"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/SPlambL.htm">Leonard Lamb</a></span></span></span>, <span class="style3"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:Black;"><span style="color:Teal;"><span style="color:Teal;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span 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style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/SProlfe.htm">Edwin Rolfe</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>, who he described as <span class="style37"><span style="font-family:Swis721 BT;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">being "frail; he resembled a bird; he had a fine, delicate bone structure and he did not look as though he should be in an army<span class="style3"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:Swis721 BT;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">... I do not think I have ever met a gentler guy, a less pugnacious guy, less of a soldier. But he had the iron of conviction in him just the same. He had a tiny automatic pistol some one had given him, and it became him, though I could not imagine him ever using it." </span></span></span></span></span></span></span> <p class="style10"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:Black;"><span style="color:Teal;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span class="style3"><span style="font-family:Swis721 BT;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">While in Spain he </span></span></span><span class="style37"><span style="font-family:Swis721 BT;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">was interviewed by <span style="font-family:Swis721 BT;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">journalists, <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWtoller.htm">Ernst Toller</a>, <span class="style3"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAhemingway.htm">Ernest Hemingway</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="style3"><span style="font-family:Swis721 BT;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-family:Swis721 BT;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">, <span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/SPsheean.htm">Vincent Sheean</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> and <span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/SPmatthewsH.htm">Herbert Matthews</a></span>. <span style="font-family:Arial;color:#000000;">Bessie took part in the battle for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandesa">Gandesa</a> and served under <span class="style3"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Red;"><span style="color:Black;"><a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/SPwoolf.htm">Milton Wolff</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> at the <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/SPebro.htm" class="style3"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ebro</span></a>. </span><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:Black;"><span style="color:Teal;"><span style="color:#000000;">On his return he wrote a book, <i><span style="color:#cc0000;"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Alvah+Bessie&x=17&y=15">Men in Battle</a></span></i> (1939) about his experiences in Spain. He was also appointed as drama and film reviewer of the <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JmassesN.htm"><i>New Masses</i></a> (1939-43).<br /> <br /> Bessie moved to Hollywood and two of his screenplays were produced by Warner Brothers, <i><span style="color:#cc0000;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036218/">Northern Pursuit</a> </span></i>(1943) and <i><span style="color:#cc0000;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037428/">The Very Thought of You</a></span></i> (1944). His next screenplay, the extremely patriotic,<span style="color:#cc0000;"> <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037954/">Objective Burma</a></i></span> (1945) was nominated for an <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAoscar.htm">Academy Award</a>. This was followed by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037791/"><em>Hotel Berlin</em></a> (1945), <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040751/"><em>Ruthless</em></a> (1948) and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040804/"><em>Smart Woman</em></a> (1948).</span></span></span></p><p class="style10"><br /></p><p class="style10"> </p><div class="filmo-row odd" style=""> <span class="year_column">1986</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089255/">Hard Traveling</a></b> (novel "Bread and a Stone") <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row even" style=""> <span class="year_column">1974</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072143/">The Sex Symbol</a></b> (TV movie) (novel "The Symbol") <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row odd" style=""> <span class="year_column">1969</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062941/">Spain Again</a></b> (screenplay collaboration) <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row even" style=""> <span class="year_column">1951</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043906/">Passage West</a></b> (story / front Nedrick Young) <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row odd" style=""> <span class="year_column">1948</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040804/">Smart Woman</a></b> (screenplay) <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row even" style=""> <span class="year_column">1948</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040751/">Ruthless</a></b> (screenplay / originally - uncredited) <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row odd" style=""> <span class="year_column">1945</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037791/">Hotel Berlin</a></b> <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row even" style=""> <span class="year_column">1945</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037954/">Objective, Burma!</a></b> (original story) <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row odd" style=""> <span class="year_column">1944</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037428/">The Very Thought of You</a></b> (screenplay) <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <span class="year_column">1943</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036218/">Northern Pursuit</a></b> (screenplay)Fantastic Forresthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08044290192610027408noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149327191435005089.post-87477667640878415152012-01-25T15:01:00.001-08:002012-01-25T15:07:42.509-08:00Ring Lardner, Jr.<style>@font-face { font-family: "Times New Roman"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }a:link, span.MsoHyperlink { color: blue; text-decoration: underline; }a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed { color: purple; text-decoration: underline; }p { margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Times; }table.MsoNormalTable { font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; }</style> <p><span style="font-size:130%;">Film Clip: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na32H_d0NKU">Woman of the Year 1942</a></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:130%;">Blacklisted by the Hollywood studios, Lardner worked for the next couple of years on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novel">novel</a>, <i>The Ecstasy of Owen Muir</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> (1954). He moved to England for a time where he wrote under several <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudonym">pseudonyms</a> for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television">television</a> series such as </span><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Robin_Hood_%28TV_series%29">The Adventures of Robin Hood</a></i><span style="font-style: normal;">. The blacklist was lifted when producer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Ransohoff">Martin Ransohoff</a> and director <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Jewison">Norman Jewison</a> gave him <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_credit">screen credit</a> for writing 1965's </span><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cincinnati_Kid">The Cincinnati Kid</a></i><span style="font-style: normal;">. Lardner's later work included </span><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MASH_%28film%29">M*A*S*H</a></i><span style="font-style: normal;"> (1970), for which he won the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Writing_Adapted_Screenplay">Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay</a>, and </span><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Greatest_%281977_film%29">The Greatest</a></i><span style="font-style: normal;"> (1977). His final film project was an adaptation of Roger Kahn's classic book, "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boys_of_Summer_%28book%29">The Boys of Summer</a>." To Ring's great regret, funding did not materialize. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:130%;">According to Hungarian writer Miklos Vamos—who visited Lardner several times before his death—Lardner won an Academy Award for a movie he wrote under a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudonym">pseudonym</a>.<sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_Lardner,_Jr.#cite_note-0"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ></span></a> Lardner refused to tell which movie it was, saying that it would be unfair to reveal it because the writer who allowed Lardner, Jr., to use his name as a front(as Lardner's pseudonym) was doing him a big favor at the time.</sup></span></p>Fantastic Forresthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08044290192610027408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149327191435005089.post-55168712401881482132012-01-25T14:50:00.000-08:002012-01-25T14:57:38.128-08:00Howard BibermanHoward Biberman<br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />Film Trailer: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDe80G96K1Q">Salt of the Earth http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDe80G96K1Q</a><br /></span> <p><span style="font-size:130%;">Biberman and his fellow Ten went to jail over their contempt convictions, Biberman for six months. Edward Dmytryk ultimately cooperated with the House committee, but Biberman and the others were <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacklisted" title="Blacklisted" class="mw-redirect">blacklisted</a> by official <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_the_United_States" title="Cinema of the United States">Hollywood</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movie_studio" title="Movie studio">movie studio</a> bosses.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:130%;">Biberman went to work independently after his release from jail. The result was <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_of_the_Earth" title="Salt of the Earth">Salt of the Earth</a></i>, a fictionalized account of the Grant County miners' strike written by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Wilson_%28writer%29" title="Michael Wilson (writer)">Michael Wilson</a> and produced by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Jarrico" title="Paul Jarrico">Paul Jarrico</a>, neither of whom were members of the Ten but both of whom were also blacklisted. Biberman died in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:130%;"><i>Salt of the Earth</i> has been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress" title="Library of Congress">Library of Congress</a> and selected for preservation in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Film_Registry" title="National Film Registry">National Film Registry</a>. The film has also been preserved by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Modern_Art" title="Museum of Modern Art">Museum of Modern Art</a> in New York. Wilson, one of the blacklisted screenwriters who worked under assumed names, later won an Academy Award for a screenplay he wrote under a nom de plume, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge_on_the_River_Kwai" title="Bridge on the River Kwai" class="mw-redirect">Bridge on the River Kwai</a></i>.</span></p>Fantastic Forresthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08044290192610027408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149327191435005089.post-2933076127317071122012-01-25T14:41:00.000-08:002012-01-25T14:48:35.752-08:00Edward DmytrykGive us this Day<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpSQ0Ha1Gh8"><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpSQ0Ha1Gh8</a><br /><br />Tender Comrade<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1Nzz8NSDbI"><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1Nzz8NSDbI</a><br /><br />Summoned to appear before the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Committee_on_Un-American_Activities" title="House Committee on Un-American Activities" class="mw-redirect">House Committee on Un-American Activities</a> (HUAC), he refused to cooperate and was sent to jail. After spending several months behind bars, Dmytryk made the decision to testify again, and give the names of his fellow members in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Communist_Party" title="American Communist Party" class="mw-redirect">American Communist Party</a> as the HUAC had demanded. On April 25, 1951, Dmytryk appeared before HUAC for the second time, answering all questions. He spoke of his own Party past, a very brief membership in 1945, including the naming of twenty-six former members of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-wing" title="Left-wing" class="mw-redirect">left-wing</a> groups. He explained how <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Howard_Lawson" title="John Howard Lawson">John Howard Lawson</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Scott" title="Adrian Scott">Adrian Scott</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Maltz" title="Albert Maltz">Albert Maltz</a> and others had pressured him to include <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist" title="Communist" class="mw-redirect">communist</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda" title="Propaganda">propaganda</a> in his films. His testimony damaged several court cases that others of the so-called "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_blacklist#The_Hollywood_Ten" title="Hollywood blacklist">Hollywood 10</a>" had filed. He recounted his experiences of the period in his revealing 1996 book, <i>Odd Man Out: A Memoir of the Hollywood Ten</i> (Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, IL).<br /><br /><br /> <ul><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hawk_%281935_film%29" title="The Hawk (1935 film)">The Hawk</a></i> (1935)</li><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million_Dollar_Legs_%281939_film%29" title="Million Dollar Legs (1939 film)">Million Dollar Legs</a></i> (uncredited; 1939)</li><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_Spy" title="Television Spy">Television Spy</a></i> (1939)</li><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Squad_%28film%29" title="Emergency Squad (film)">Emergency Squad</a></i> (1940)</li><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Gloves_%281940_film%29" title="Golden Gloves (1940 film)">Golden Gloves</a></i> (1940)</li><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_Sea_Raider" title="Mystery Sea Raider">Mystery Sea Raider</a></i> (1940)</li><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Her_First_Romance" title="Her First Romance">Her First Romance</a></i> (1940)</li><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil_Commands" title="The Devil Commands">The Devil Commands</a></i> (1941)</li><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_Age_%281941_film%29" title="Under Age (1941 film)">Under Age</a></i> (1941)</li><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweetheart_of_the_Campus" title="Sweetheart of the Campus">Sweetheart of the Campus</a></i> (1941)</li><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blonde_from_Singapore" title="The Blonde from Singapore">The Blonde from Singapore</a></i> (1941)</li><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secrets_of_the_Lone_Wolf" title="Secrets of the Lone Wolf">Secrets of the Lone Wolf</a></i> (1941)</li><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_Boston_Blackie" title="Confessions of Boston Blackie">Confessions of Boston Blackie</a></i> (1941)</li><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-Espionage" title="Counter-Espionage">Counter-Espionage</a></i> (1942)</li><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Miles_from_Alcatraz" title="Seven Miles from Alcatraz">Seven Miles from Alcatraz</a></i> (1942)</li><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler%27s_Children_%28film%29" title="Hitler's Children (film)">Hitler's Children</a></i> (1943)</li><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Falcon_Strikes_Back" title="The Falcon Strikes Back">The Falcon Strikes Back</a></i> (1943)</li><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive_Wild_Woman" title="Captive Wild Woman">Captive Wild Woman</a></i> (1943)</li><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behind_the_Rising_Sun_%28film%29" title="Behind the Rising Sun (film)">Behind the Rising Sun</a></i> (1943)</li><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tender_Comrade" title="Tender Comrade">Tender Comrade</a></i> (1943)</li><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder,_My_Sweet" title="Murder, My Sweet">Murder, My Sweet</a></i> (1944)</li><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_Bataan" title="Back to Bataan">Back to Bataan</a></i> (1945)</li><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornered_%28film%29" title="Cornered (film)">Cornered</a></i> (1945)</li><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Till_the_End_of_Time_%28film%29" title="Till the End of Time (film)">Till the End of Time</a></i> (1946)</li><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_Well_Remembered" title="So Well Remembered">So Well Remembered</a></i> (1947)</li><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossfire_%28film%29" title="Crossfire (film)">Crossfire</a></i> (1947)</li><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsession_%281949_film%29" title="Obsession (1949 film)">Obsession</a></i> (1949)</li><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give_Us_This_Day" title="Give Us This Day">Give Us This Day</a></i> (1949)</li><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sniper_%281952_film%29" title="The Sniper (1952 film)">The Sniper</a></i> (1952)</li><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutiny_%28film%29" title="Mutiny (film)">Mutiny</a></i> (1952)</li><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_Iron_Men" title="Eight Iron Men">Eight Iron Men</a></i> (1952)</li><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Juggler_%28film%29" title="The Juggler (film)">The Juggler</a></i> (1953)</li><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Caine_Mutiny_%28film%29" title="The Caine Mutiny (film)">The Caine Mutiny</a></i> (1954)</li><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_Lance" title="Broken Lance">Broken Lance</a></i> (1954)</li><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_the_Affair_%281955_film%29" title="The End of the Affair (1955 film)">The End of the Affair</a></i> (1954)</li><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldier_of_Fortune_%28film%29" title="Soldier of Fortune (film)">Soldier of Fortune</a></i> (1955)</li><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Left_Hand_of_God" title="The Left Hand of God">The Left Hand of God</a></i> (1955)</li><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mountain_%281956_film%29" title="The Mountain (1956 film)">The Mountain</a></i> (1956)</li><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raintree_County_%28film%29" title="Raintree County (film)">Raintree County</a></i> (1957)</li><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Young_Lions_%28film%29" title="The Young Lions (film)">The Young Lions</a></i> (1958)</li><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Angel_%281959_film%29" title="The Blue Angel (1959 film)">The Blue Angel</a></i> (1959)</li><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warlock_%281959_film%29" title="Warlock (1959 film)">Warlock</a></i> (1959)</li><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walk_on_the_Wild_Side_%28film%29" title="Walk on the Wild Side (film)">Walk on the Wild Side</a></i> (1962)</li><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Reluctant_Saint" title="The Reluctant Saint">The Reluctant Saint</a></i> (1962)</li><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Carpetbaggers" title="The Carpetbaggers">The Carpetbaggers</a></i> (1964)</li><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_Love_Has_Gone_%28film%29" title="Where Love Has Gone (film)">Where Love Has Gone</a></i> (1964)</li><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirage_%281965_film%29" title="Mirage (1965 film)">Mirage</a></i> (1965)</li><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvarez_Kelly" title="Alvarez Kelly">Alvarez Kelly</a></i> (1966)</li><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anzio_%28film%29" title="Anzio (film)">Anzio (film)</a></i> (1968)</li><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shalako_%28film%29" title="Shalako (film)">Shalako</a></i> (1968)</li><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebeard_%281972_film%29" title="Bluebeard (1972 film)">Bluebeard</a></i> (1972)</li></ul>Fantastic Forresthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08044290192610027408noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149327191435005089.post-286348849865753092012-01-25T14:34:00.000-08:002012-01-25T14:39:04.775-08:00John Howard Lawson<p><span style="font-size:130%;">John Howard Lawson</span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;">Sahara: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBMbxPZSZdQ&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBMbxPZSZdQ&feature=related</a></span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;">Lawson appeared before the HUAC on October 29, 1947, but like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvah_Bessie" title="Alvah Bessie">Alvah Bessie</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Biberman" title="Herbert Biberman">Herbert Biberman</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Maltz" title="Albert Maltz">Albert Maltz</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Scott" title="Adrian Scott">Adrian Scott</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalton_Trumbo" title="Dalton Trumbo">Dalton Trumbo</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_Cole" title="Lester Cole">Lester Cole</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Dmytryk" title="Edward Dmytryk">Edward Dmytryk</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Ornitz" title="Samuel Ornitz">Samuel Ornitz</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_Lardner_Jr" title="Ring Lardner Jr" class="mw-redirect">Ring Lardner Jr</a>, he refused to answer any questions. Known as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Ten" title="Hollywood Ten" class="mw-redirect">Hollywood Ten</a>, they claimed that the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" title="First Amendment to the United States Constitution">First Amendment</a> of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution" title="United States Constitution">United States Constitution</a> gave them the right to do this. The HUAC and U.S. appeals courts, however, disagreed and all were found guilty of contempt of Congress and Lawson was sentenced to twelve months in Ashland Prison and fined $1,000. In his 1951 HUAC testimony, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Dmytryk" title="Edward Dmytryk">Edward Dmytryk</a> testified that Lawson had pressured him to put <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist" title="Communist" class="mw-redirect">communist</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda" title="Propaganda">propaganda</a> in his films.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:130%;">Lawson had organized and led the attack on Albert Maltz when Maltz published an article, "What Shall We Ask of Writers", in <i>The New Masses</i>, challenging the didacticism of the American Communist Party's censorship of writers. Surprised by the ferocity of attack from his fellow writers, including Lawson, Howard Fast, Alvah Bessie, Ring Lardner, Jr., Samuel Sillen, and others, Maltz publicly recanted.</span></p>Fantastic Forresthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08044290192610027408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149327191435005089.post-695146943506889122012-01-25T14:16:00.000-08:002012-01-25T14:20:54.601-08:00Lester Cole<style>@font-face { font-family: "Times New Roman"; }@font-face { font-family: "Courier New"; }@font-face { font-family: "Wingdings"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }a:link, span.MsoHyperlink { color: blue; text-decoration: underline; }a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed { color: purple; text-decoration: underline; }p { margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Times; }table.MsoNormalTable { font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; }ol { margin-bottom: 0in; }ul { margin-bottom: 0in; }</style> <ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Times;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_Cole">Lester Cole</a>, screenwriter</span></span></li></ul> <p><span style="font-size:130%;">Between 1932 and 1947 Cole wrote more than forty screenplays that were made into motion pictures. After his <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacklist">blacklisting</a>, just three screenplays were made into films, only after friends, and wife Gerald L.C. Copley, Lewis Copley, and J. Redmond Prior, submitted the screenplays under their names.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:130%;">His best-known work was the highly successful 1966 film <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_Free">Born Free</a></i><span style="font-style: normal;">.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Film Clip: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fKQ1xDBR6k">Objective, Burma!</a><br /></span></span></p><p><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span></p><p> </p><div class="filmo-row odd" style=""> <span class="year_column">1966</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060182/">Born Free</a></b> (screenplay / originally as Gerald L.C. Copley) <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row even" style=""> <span class="year_column">1965</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0794136/">Onkelchens Traum</a></b> (TV movie) <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row odd" style=""> <span class="year_column">1961</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055261/">Operation Eichmann</a></b> (written by / originally as Lewis Copley) <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row even" style=""> <span class="year_column">1950</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042324/">Chain Lightning</a></b> (story "These Many Years" / originally as J. Redmond Prior) <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row odd" style=""> <span class="year_column">1947</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039464/">High Wall</a></b> <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row even" style=""> <span class="year_column">1947</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039783/">The Romance of Rosy Ridge</a></b> <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row odd" style=""> <span class="year_column">1947</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039377/">Fiesta</a></b> <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row even" style=""> <span class="year_column">1946</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038985/">Strange Conquest</a></b> (story) <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row odd" style=""> <span class="year_column">1945</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037908/">Men in Her Diary</a></b> (adaptation) <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row even" style=""> <span class="year_column">1945</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037547/">Blood on the Sun</a></b> (screenplay) <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row odd" style=""> <span class="year_column">1945</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037954/">Objective, Burma!</a></b> (screenplay) <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row even" style=""> <span class="year_column">1944</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037136/">None Shall Escape</a></b> <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row odd" style=""> <span class="year_column">1943</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036017/">Hostages</a></b> (writer) <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row even" style=""> <span class="year_column">1943</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035948/">The Good Fellows</a></b> (contract writer - uncredited) <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row odd" style=""> <span class="year_column">1943</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035125/">Night Plane from Chungking</a></b> (screenplay) <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row even" style=""> <span class="year_column">1941</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033993/">Pacific Blackout</a></b> (screenplay) <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row odd" style=""> <span class="year_column">1941</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033337/">Among the Living</a></b> (screenplay / story) <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row even" style=""> <span class="year_column">1941</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033369/">Bad Men of Missouri</a></b> (contributing writer - uncredited) <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row odd" style=""> <span class="year_column">1941</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033616/">Footsteps in the Dark</a></b> (screenplay) <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row even" style=""> <span class="year_column">1940</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032610/">The House of the Seven Gables</a></b> <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row odd" style=""> <span class="year_column">1940</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032635/">The Invisible Man Returns</a></b> (screenplay) <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row even" style=""> <span class="year_column">1939</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031097/">The Big Guy</a></b> (screenplay) <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row odd" style=""> <span class="year_column">1939</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031465/">I Stole a Million</a></b> (story) <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row even" style=""> <span class="year_column">1939</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032132/">Winter Carnival</a></b> (writer) <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row odd" style=""> <span class="year_column">1939</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031801/">Pirates of the Skies</a></b> (story "Sky Police") <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row even" style=""> <span class="year_column">1938</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030726/">Secrets of a Nurse</a></b> (screenplay) <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row odd" style=""> <span class="year_column">1938</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030754/">Sinners in Paradise</a></b> (screenplay) <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row even" style=""> <span class="year_column">1938</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030028/">The Crime of Doctor Hallet</a></b> (screenplay / story) <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row odd" style=""> <span class="year_column">1938</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030449/">Midnight Intruder</a></b> (screenplay) <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row even" style=""> <span class="year_column">1938</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030301/">The Jury's Secret</a></b> (story and screenplay) <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row odd" style=""> <span class="year_column">1937</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029587/">Some Blondes Are Dangerous</a></b> <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row even" style=""> <span class="year_column">1937</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029205/">The Man in Blue</a></b> (screenplay) <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row odd" style=""> <span class="year_column">1937</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028557/">Affairs of Cappy Ricks</a></b> (original screenplay) <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row even" style=""> <span class="year_column">1936</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028135/">The President's Mystery</a></b> (screenplay) <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row odd" style=""> <span class="year_column">1936</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027629/">Follow Your Heart</a></b> <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row even" style=""> <span class="year_column">1935</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027750/">Hitch Hike Lady</a></b> (screenplay) <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row odd" style=""> <span class="year_column">1935</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027122/">Too Tough to Kill</a></b> <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row even" style=""> <span class="year_column">1935</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026262/">Dante's Inferno</a></b> (contributor to treatment - uncredited) <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row odd" style=""> <span class="year_column">1935</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027154/">Under Pressure</a></b> <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row even" style=""> <span class="year_column">1934</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025551/">Nada más que una mujer</a></b> (screenplay) <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row odd" style=""> <span class="year_column">1934</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024968/">Charlie Chan in London</a></b> (additional dialogue - uncredited) <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row even" style=""> <span class="year_column">1934</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025689/">Pursued</a></b> <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row odd" style=""> <span class="year_column">1934</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025992/">Wild Gold</a></b> <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row even" style=""> <span class="year_column">1934</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025801/">Sleepers East</a></b> <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row odd" style=""> <span class="year_column">1934</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025890/">Three on a Honeymoon</a></b> (contract writer - uncredited) <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row even" style=""> <span class="year_column">1933</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024745/">Walls of Gold</a></b> (writer) <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row odd" style=""> <span class="year_column">1933</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023881/">Charlie Chan's Greatest Case</a></b> (writer) <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <span class="year_column">1932</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023049/">If I Had a Million</a></b>Fantastic Forresthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08044290192610027408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149327191435005089.post-78505745066598851712012-01-25T14:08:00.000-08:002012-01-25T14:16:17.799-08:00Albert Maltz<style>@font-face { font-family: "Times New Roman"; }@font-face { font-family: "Courier New"; }@font-face { font-family: "Wingdings"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }a:link, span.MsoHyperlink { color: blue; text-decoration: underline; }a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed { color: purple; text-decoration: underline; }table.MsoNormalTable { font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; }ol { margin-bottom: 0in; }ul { margin-bottom: 0in; }</style> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:16pt;" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Maltz">Albert Maltz</a>, screenwriter</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:16pt;" ></span><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:14pt;" ></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:14pt;" >For his script for the 1945 film <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_of_the_Marines">Pride of the Marines</a></i></span><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:14pt;" >, Maltz was nominated for an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Writing_Adapted_Screenplay">Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay</a>. He won the 1951 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writers_Guild_of_America">Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Drama</a> for his screenplay for <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_Arrow_%281950_film%29">Broken Arrow</a></i></span><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:14pt;" >. However, due to his blacklisting at the time, fellow <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPAA">MPAA</a> screenwriter <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Blankfort">Michael Blankfort</a> put his own name on the script as the only way to get it accepted by any of the Hollywood <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movie_studio">movie studios</a>. As such, Blankfort was named the winner until things were made right for Maltz, albeit posthumously, in 1997 when the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writers_Guild_of_America">Writers Guild of America</a> unanimously voted to restore <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_credit">screen credit</a> to those who had been blacklisted.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:14pt;" ></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:14pt;" >Film Clip: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx0EvzLjZAg">Pride of the Marines</a><br /></span></span></p> <table style="" border="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"> <span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:10pt;" ></span></span></p> <br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> <ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:10pt;" ><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Mules_for_Sister_Sara">Two Mules for Sister Sara</a></i></span><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:10pt;" > (1970)</span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:10pt;" ><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Robe_%28film%29">The Robe</a></i></span><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:10pt;" > (1953) (originally uncredited)</span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:10pt;" ><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_Arrow_%281950_film%29">Broken Arrow</a></i></span><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:10pt;" > (1950) (originally uncredited)</span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:10pt;" ><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_City">The Naked City</a></i></span><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:10pt;" > (1948)</span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:10pt;" ><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_House_%281947_film%29">The Red House</a></i></span><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:10pt;" > (1947)</span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:10pt;" ><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloak_and_Dagger_%281946_film%29">Cloak and Dagger</a></i></span><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:10pt;" > (1946)</span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:10pt;" ><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_of_the_Marines">Pride of the Marines</a></i></span><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:10pt;" > (1945)</span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:10pt;" ><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_I_Live_In">The House I Live In</a></i></span><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:10pt;" > (1945)</span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:10pt;" ><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Gun_for_Hire">This Gun for Hire</a></i></span><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:10pt;" > (1942)</span></span></li></ul> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:10pt;" ></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table>Fantastic Forresthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08044290192610027408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149327191435005089.post-41679916095652705872012-01-25T12:46:00.000-08:002012-01-25T14:08:16.210-08:00Adrian Scott<style>@font-face { font-family: "Times New Roman"; }@font-face { font-family: "Courier New"; }@font-face { font-family: "Wingdings"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }a:link, span.MsoHyperlink { color: blue; text-decoration: underline; }a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed { color: purple; text-decoration: underline; }p { margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Times; }table.MsoNormalTable { font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; }ol { margin-bottom: 0in; }ul { margin-bottom: 0in; }</style> <ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:16pt;" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Scott">Adrian Scott</a>, producer and screenwriter</span></span></li></ul> <p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Adrian Scott was the producer of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_noir">film noirs</a> <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder,_My_Sweet">Murder, My Sweet</a></i></span><span style="font-size:12pt;"> (1944), <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornered_%28film%29">Cornered</a></i></span><span style="font-size:12pt;"> (1945), and <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossfire_%28film%29">Crossfire</a></i></span><span style="font-size:12pt;"> (1947), all of which were directed by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Dmytryk">Edward Dmytryk</a>. <i>Crossfire</i></span><span style="font-size:12pt;"> was nominated for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Picture">Academy Award for Best Picture</a>.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:12pt;">In October 1947, Scott was called to testify during the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Committee_on_Un-American_Activities">House Committee on Un-American Activities</a> (HUAC) hearings on Hollywood but - as did nine others - refused to testify and was sentenced to jail. Edward Dmytryk, another of these Hollywood Ten, later, in 1951 testified before the HUAC that Scott pressured him to put communist propaganda in his films.</span></span></p><p><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Here is a clip from Crossfire: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dRDINoVTec&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dRDINoVTec&feature=related</a><br /></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:16pt;" > </span></span> </p><div class="filmo-row odd" style=""> <span class="year_column">1972</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067161/">The Great Man's Whiskers</a></b> (TV movie) (play)<br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row even" style=""> <span class="year_column">1960</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053732/">Conspiracy of Hearts</a></b> (story / front Dale Pitt)<br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row odd" style=""> <span class="year_column">1955</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047706/">The Adventures of Robin Hood</a></b> (TV series) <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row even" style=""> <span class="year_column">1946</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037917/">Miss Susie Slagle's</a></b> (adaptation)<br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row odd" style=""> <span class="year_column">1943</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036174/">Mr. Lucky</a></b> (screenplay)<br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row even" style=""> <span class="year_column">1941</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034375/">We Go Fast</a></b> (screenplay)<br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="filmo-row odd" style=""> <span class="year_column">1941</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034004/">The Parson of Panamint</a></b> <br /> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <span class="year_column"></span><span class="year_column">1940</span> <b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033782/">Keeping Company</a></b> (screenplay)Fantastic Forresthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08044290192610027408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149327191435005089.post-10626240955222968352012-01-25T12:45:00.001-08:002012-01-25T14:33:52.756-08:00Dalton TrumboThirty Seconds Over Tokyo<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z_Wk8Dz2n8"><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z_Wk8Dz2n8</a><br /><br /><br /><br />Trumbo<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/movie?v=Y-Fb1bL67J8&feature=mv_sr">http://www.youtube.com/movie?v=Y-Fb1bL67J8&feature=mv_sr</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><table class="infobox biography vcard" style="width: 22em;" cellspacing="5"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2" class="" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-size:125%;"><span class="fn">Dalton Trumbo</span></th> </tr> <tr class=""> <td colspan="2" class="" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Trumbo_and_Cleo_1947_HUAC_hearings.png" class="image"><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Trumbo_and_Cleo_1947_HUAC_hearings.png/220px-Trumbo_and_Cleo_1947_HUAC_hearings.png" height="177" width="220" /></a><br /><span style="">Trumbo with wife Cleo at House Un-American Activities Committee hearings, 1947</span></td> </tr> <tr class=""> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><br /></th> <td class="" style=""><br /></td> </tr> <tr class=""> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><br /></th> <td class="" style=""><br /></td> </tr> <tr class=""> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><br /></th> <td class="" style=""><br /></td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p><b>James Dalton Trumbo</b> (December 9, 1905 – September 10, 1976) was an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States">American</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screenwriter" title="Screenwriter">screenwriter</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novelist" title="Novelist" class="mw-redirect">novelist</a>. As one of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Ten" title="Hollywood Ten" class="mw-redirect">Hollywood Ten</a>, he refused to testify before the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Un-American_Activities_Committee" title="House Un-American Activities Committee">House Un-American Activities Committee</a> (HUAC) in 1947 during the committee's investigation of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist" title="Communist" class="mw-redirect">Communist</a> influences in the motion picture industry. Trumbo won two <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Awards" title="Academy Awards" class="mw-redirect">Academy Awards</a> while <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacklisted" title="Blacklisted" class="mw-redirect">blacklisted</a>; one was originally given to a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_%28identity%29" title="Front (identity)" class="mw-redirect">front</a> writer, and one was awarded to Robert Rich, Trumbo's pseudonym.<sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalton_Trumbo#cite_note-0"><span></span><span></span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalton_Trumbo#cite_note-1"><span></span><span></span></a></sup></p> <p>Blacklisting effectively ended in 1960 when it lost credibility. Trumbo was publicly given credit for two blockbuster films: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Preminger" title="Otto Preminger">Otto Preminger</a> made public that Trumbo wrote the screenplay for the smash hit, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus_%281960_film%29" title="Exodus (1960 film)">Exodus</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalton_Trumbo#cite_note-2"><span></span><span></span></a></sup> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirk_Douglas" title="Kirk Douglas">Kirk Douglas</a> publicly announced that Trumbo was the screenwriter of <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartacus_%28film%29" title="Spartacus (film)">Spartacus</a></i>. Further, President-elect <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a> crossed picket lines to see the movie.<sup id="cite_ref-fiu_3-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalton_Trumbo#cite_note-fiu-3"><span></span><span></span></a></sup></p> <p>His son <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Trumbo" title="Christopher Trumbo">Christopher Trumbo</a> wrote a play based on his letters during the period of the blacklist, entitled <i>Red, White and Blacklisted</i> (2003), produced in New York in 2003. He adapted it as a film, adding material from documentary footage, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumbo_%28film%29" title="Trumbo (film)">Trumbo</a></i> (2007).<sup id="cite_ref-latimes_4-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalton_Trumbo#cite_note-latimes-4"><span></span><span></span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-nytimes_5-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalton_Trumbo#cite_note-nytimes-5"><span></span><span></span></a></sup></p> <p>On December 19, 2011, The Writers Guild of America announced that Trumbo will get full credit for his work on the screenplay of the 1953 romantic comedy <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Holiday" title="Roman Holiday">Roman Holiday</a></i>, sixty years after the fact.<sup id="cite_ref-kpcc_6-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalton_Trumbo#cite_note-kpcc-6"><span></span><span></span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-latimes-verrier_7-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalton_Trumbo#cite_note-latimes-verrier-7"><span></span><span></span></a></sup></p>Fantastic Forresthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08044290192610027408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149327191435005089.post-16481198452656205362012-01-25T12:44:00.000-08:002012-01-25T14:25:38.838-08:00Spartacus - Dalton Trumbo<table class="infobox vevent" style="width: 22em;font-size:90%;" cellspacing="5"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2" class="summary" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-size:110%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></th> </tr> <tr class=""> <td colspan="2" class="" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Spartacus_sheetA.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2f/Spartacus_sheetA.jpg/220px-Spartacus_sheetA.jpg" height="331" width="220" /></a><br /><span style="line-height: 1.5em;font-size:95%;" >Theatrical release poster by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynold_Brown" title="Reynold Brown">Reynold Brown</a></span></span> </td> </tr> <tr class=""> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Directed by</span></th> <td class="description" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Kubrick" title="Stanley Kubrick">Stanley Kubrick</a><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Mann" title="Anthony Mann">Anthony Mann</a></span> <span style="font-size:130%;"> <span style="font-size:85%;">(uncredited)</span></span></td> </tr> <tr class=""> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Produced by</span></th> <td class="" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;">Edward Lewis<br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirk_Douglas" title="Kirk Douglas">Kirk Douglas</a></span> <span style="font-size:130%;"> <span style="font-size:85%;">(executive)</span></span></td> </tr> <tr class=""> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Screenplay by</span></th> <td class="" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalton_Trumbo" title="Dalton Trumbo">Dalton Trumbo</a></span></td> </tr> <tr class=""> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Based on</span></th> <td class="" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartacus_%28Fast_novel%29" title="Spartacus (Fast novel)">Spartacus</a></i> by<br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Fast" title="Howard Fast">Howard Fast</a></span> </td> </tr> <tr class=""> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Narrated by</span></th> <td class="" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vic_Perrin" title="Vic Perrin">Vic Perrin</a></span></td> </tr> <tr class=""> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Starring</span></th> <td class="" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirk_Douglas" title="Kirk Douglas">Kirk Douglas</a><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Olivier" title="Laurence Olivier">Laurence Olivier</a></span> <span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ustinov" title="Peter Ustinov">Peter Ustinov</a></span> <span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gavin" title="John Gavin">John Gavin</a></span> <span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Simmons" title="Jean Simmons">Jean Simmons</a></span> <span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Laughton" title="Charles Laughton">Charles Laughton</a></span> <span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Curtis" title="Tony Curtis">Tony Curtis</a></span> </td> </tr> <tr class=""> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Music by</span></th> <td class="" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_North" title="Alex North">Alex North</a></span></td> </tr> <tr class=""> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Cinematography</span></th> <td class="" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Metty" title="Russell Metty">Russell Metty</a><br />Stanley Kubrick (uncredited)</span></td> </tr> <tr class=""> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Editing by</span></th> <td class="" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;">Robert Lawrence</span></td> </tr> <tr class=""> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Distributed by</span></th> <td class="" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Studios" title="Universal Studios">Universal Pictures</a></span></td> </tr> <tr class=""> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Release <span class="nowrap">date(s)</span></span></th> <td class="" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;">October 7, 1960</span><span style="display: none;"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1960-10-07</span>)</span></td> </tr> <tr class=""> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Running time</span></th> <td class="" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;">184 minutes</span></td> </tr> <tr class=""> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Country</span></th> <td class="" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;">United States</span></td> </tr> <tr class=""> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Language</span></th> <td class="" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;">English</span></td> </tr> <tr class=""> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Budget</span></th> <td class="" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;">$12 million</span></td> </tr> <tr class=""> <th scope="row" style="text-align: left; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Box office</span></th> <td class="" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;">$60,000,000</span></td> </tr> </tbody></table> <div class="thumb tright"> <div class="thumbinner" style="width: 222px;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Spartacus_-_1960_-_poster.png" class="image"><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/ce/Spartacus_-_1960_-_poster.png/220px-Spartacus_-_1960_-_poster.png" class="thumbimage" height="332" width="220" /></a></span> <div class="thumbcaption"> <div class="magnify"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Spartacus_-_1960_-_poster.png" class="internal" title="Enlarge"><img src="http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.18/common/images/magnify-clip.png" alt="" height="11" width="15" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size:130%;"> Original 1960 theatrical release poster</span></div> </div> </div> <p><span style="font-size:130%;"><i><b>Spartacus</b></i> is a 1960 American epic <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_fiction" title="Historical fiction">historical</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drama_film" title="Drama film">drama film</a> directed by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Kubrick" title="Stanley Kubrick">Stanley Kubrick</a> and based on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartacus_%28Fast_novel%29" title="Spartacus (Fast novel)">novel of the same name</a> by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Fast" title="Howard Fast">Howard Fast</a>. The life story of the historical figure <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartacus" title="Spartacus">Spartacus</a> and the events of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Servile_War" title="Third Servile War">Third Servile War</a> were adapted by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalton_Trumbo" title="Dalton Trumbo">Dalton Trumbo</a> as a screenplay.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:130%;">The film stars <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirk_Douglas" title="Kirk Douglas">Kirk Douglas</a> as rebellious slave Spartacus and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Olivier" title="Laurence Olivier">Laurence Olivier</a> as his foe, the Roman general and politician <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Licinius_Crassus" title="Marcus Licinius Crassus">Marcus Licinius Crassus</a>. Co-starring are <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ustinov" title="Peter Ustinov">Peter Ustinov</a> (who won an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award" title="Academy Award">Academy Award</a> for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Supporting_Actor" title="Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor">Best Supporting Actor</a> for his role as slave trader <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lentulus_Batiatus" title="Lentulus Batiatus">Lentulus Batiatus</a>), <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gavin" title="John Gavin">John Gavin</a> (as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar" title="Julius Caesar">Julius Caesar</a>), <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Simmons" title="Jean Simmons">Jean Simmons</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Laughton" title="Charles Laughton">Charles Laughton</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ireland_%28actor%29" title="John Ireland (actor)">John Ireland</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Lom" title="Herbert Lom">Herbert Lom</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Strode" title="Woody Strode">Woody Strode</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Curtis" title="Tony Curtis">Tony Curtis</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dall" title="John Dall">John Dall</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_McGraw" title="Charles McGraw">Charles McGraw</a>. The film won four <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscars" title="Oscars" class="mw-redirect">Oscars</a> in all.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:130%;">The titles were designed by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Bass" title="Saul Bass">Saul Bass</a>, who also has a credit as "visual consultant".<sup id="cite_ref-Spartacus_0-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartacus_%28film%29#cite_note-Spartacus-0"><span></span><span></span></a></sup></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Mann" title="Anthony Mann">Anthony Mann</a>, the film's original director, was replaced by Douglas with Kubrick after the first week of shooting.<sup id="cite_ref-Douglas_autobio_1-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartacus_%28film%29#cite_note-Douglas_autobio-1"><span></span><span></span></a></sup></span></p> <span style="font-size:130%;">Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacklisted" title="Blacklisted" class="mw-redirect">blacklisted</a> at the time as one of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Ten" title="Hollywood Ten" class="mw-redirect">Hollywood Ten</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirk_Douglas" title="Kirk Douglas">Kirk Douglas</a> publicly announced that Trumbo was the screenwriter of <i>Spartacus</i>, and President-elect <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a> crossed picket lines to see the movie, helping to end blacklisting.<br /><br />Film Clip:<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8h_v_our_Q">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8h_v_our_Q</a></span>Fantastic Forresthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08044290192610027408noreply@blogger.com0