Posted on 04/18/2005 10:47:45 AM PDT by Liz
read later bump
Grandpa Walton was among those blacklisted in Hollywood. He a member of the Communist Party.
Fits neatly into my long-held theory that Follywood detested the HUAC not for outing Communists (the Hollywarped crowd were proud of their beliefs) but b/c the HUAC placed their outrageous behavior under the spotlight and exposed these self-centered, egotistical types to be hateful, petty little red-stained rodents.
True, and the thrust of his anti-communist investigation was the State Department and Department of Defense, which just happened to have been infiltrated by numerous communist activists and sympathizers. It's interesting to note that the left bashes those who have been the most successful in their anti-left campaigns, such as McCarthy, Reagan, Coulter, etc.
I was floored when I learned that Grandpa Walton was a gay commie.
Being a dem/lib/socialist these days is a badge of honor in Hollywierd, especially when you have willing accomplices in Washington.
Of the 10 listed as the Hollywood 10, is there any freeper commenting on this thread who can point to a crime than any one of them committed?
I await the flames that surely cometh.
Read "Reagan's War"- it begins when RWR was president of SAG.
Great read.....as are many of the books written about the HUAC.
Oh yeah....Harry Hay and his band of radical faeries or something.
I believe he's one of the reasons SF is a hotbed of gay activism today.
The leaders of his original network are probably mostly dead by now, but there are lines of descent that can be traced in Hollywood as well as in Communist youth groups, the civil liberties movement, and the antiwar movement, where he was also active.
I doubt very seriously that we would have handed China over to the Communists if not for Communist agents and fellow travelers in our government and media at that time.
Is this a "crime" by any particular Communist agent of influence? I don't know. But it is certainly something that anyone with a conscience ought to feel extremely guilty about. It resulted in the Korean War, the Vietnamese War, the Vietnam War protests that handed Southeast Asia to the Communists, and infinite suffering in China itself.
It can also be argued that it is a crime. Ezra Pound was punished for doing propaganda for Mussolini in the Second World War. These folks were doing propaganda for Stalin in the midst of the Cold War, when it was clear to most people that the Soviet Union was our enemy and an enemy to the peace and stability of the whole world. We are talking here about card carrying members of a party that had been declared illegal.
Donald Ogden Stewart (1894 - 1980)
Occupation: Screenwriter, playwright, novelist
Born: November 30, 1894, Columbus, OH
Died: 1980
Education: Yale
After WW I service in the Navy and travels in Europe, he settled in New York and began writing satirical novels, which were quite popular in the 20s. In 1928 he was introduced to the theater by a college chum, Philip Barry, who wrote the part of socialite Nick Potter in his play Holiday with Stewart in mind. Stewart played the part on Broadway.
Fascinated with stage life, he wrote his first play, Rebound (1930), in which he also played one of the leading parts, and followed this with a musical Fine and Dandy (1930). As early as 1925, Stewart had been assigned to adapt one of his own novels for the screen, but the project was shelved and instead he wrote an adaptation of the play Brown of Harvard, which was released in 1926.
In 1930, Stewart settled in Hollywood as a screenwriter, following an appearance in a supporting part in the film Not So Dumb. He soon gained a reputation for his sophisticated screenplays and sparkling dialogue. He won an Academy Award for the script of The Philadelphia Story (1940), which he adapted from the Philip Barry play. After Hitler's rise to power he became involved in the political activities of the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League.
This association came back to haunt him during the McCarthy era, when it was claimed the organization had been a cover-up for a Communist cell. Blacklisted, he left Hollywood for good in 1951 and settled in London, where he wrote his autobiography in 1970.
Biography from Katz's Film Encyclopedia
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Not much has changed, it seems.
Get it? No work for ten years because of what someone else said about him...that's not right.
These same, uh, "intellectuals"---when asked about being associated with the CPUSA---asserted they had no idea Communism would become an enemy of the USA. Duh. I wonder if these intellectuals wanna buy a bridge---cheap---in Brooklyn.
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Really? What about Howard Da Silva? Ten years without work because of something someone said about him.
i threw my tv in the dumpster in 1994 when i saw how the big 4 networks were protecting the clingons.
i go to no movies, nor do i rent them.
i read, visit friends, listen to talk radio.
i don't need their propaganda.
Why didn't he cooperate? Just curious. I don't know who the guy is.
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