Posted on 09/18/2012 9:57:09 AM PDT by Vision
“I hope people understand how special Walter Huston was. A beautiful American actor.”
Yes.
Too bad that his son became an FDR liberal.
My favorite movie of all time could be Dodsworth.
Then: “We want work!”
Now: “We want birth control!”
If you are still adding to a ping list for TCM, please include me. Thanks.
Sure
‘Mission to Moscow’ was made at the behest of the U.S. Government to soften the relationship with the Soviets during WW2. It doesn’t speak to Huston’s politics any more than it speaks to those of director Michael Curtiz (who had just directed Casablanca).
It most certainly spoke to Huston’s politics. read a bio on the guy.
Nothing on his Wiki page about it and he died just before the Hollywood Blacklist. I was only speaking to MTM. There were various other pro Soviet films made during WW2. All made with the approval and oversight of the FDR administration.
I think I confused him for John Houston. Yeah, Hollywood made pro-Soviet films. Sappy stuff about the happy, proud Russian peasants and workers living in some kind of quasi-democratic system.”North Star’’ was another one of these films with Huston as the star. He might have just been concerned with earning a paycheck or he maybe really believed the script he was handed.
John h. Was his son and I hadn’t hear that about him either. He was never blacklisted.
Read a bio of him. He was a Red. McCarthy was right. Hollywood has always been full of closet Reds. Being patriotic is the new blacklist today.
I just google-ed the matter and didn’t see him as a communist at any time in his life. I could be wrong. McCarthy didn’t address Hollywood at all.
Go to “World Socialist Web Site(WSWS.org), they sure talk him up.
They talk up Hitchcock and Welles too. It’s because of what they see in the films not what politics they had.
Telling man, they’re Reds. Check out Charlie Chaplin.
Hitchcock and Welles?? LOL!! Welles was a devout Christian and Hitchcock was basically a conservative.
Chaplin wasn’t a communist either. He never registered as such and never expressed support for the Communists. His politics were of the naive ‘Peace on Earth’ variety.
Dude, virtually everything Welles wrote was from a standpoint of socialism. England was infected with it.
Did you go to the web-site on Huston I gave you? Go to Charlie Chaplin Club charliechaplinclub.com and get a read on the guy. I’m not picking this stuff outta thin air here. Or anywhere else!
I was talking about American filmmaker Orson Welles not British writer H.G. Wells.
Yes I read the article. The point is that John Huston was never a communist. Chaplin had no coherent politics to speak of.
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