n 1944, Vidor joined the anti-communist Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals.
Early on, he was quite "liberal".
He was an interesting man.
King Vidor always struck me as an odd duck. His early ‘liberalism’ (so to speak) always seemed to come more from a kind of turn-of-the-century, back-to-nature progressivism. An earlier relic/mindset, rooted more firmly in mid-america than Marx. Not at all like the dogmatic, pro-communist crowd that came out to Hollywood from the NYC/Broadway stage in the late-20s/early-30s transition to talkies.