Immersed In Red by Mike Shotwell

Author:Mike Shotwell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: World Ahead Press
Published: 2016-11-16T17:00:00+00:00

Later, during their hearings, both my mother and Orville attended rallies and fund raising events for their defense costs. They and other blacklisted writers were influential in subtle ways in the ongoing quest to promote communist ideals in film, while also working to squelch scripts that portrayed religion, capitalism, or America in a favorable light. During the HCUAA hearings in 1951, John Charles Moffitt, a former member of the Anti-Nazi League, a communist front organization, quoted conversations with Lawson, who was the Hollywood Division head of the Communist Party USA, and also the first president of the Writer’s Guild of America. He described a statement Lawson made:

As writers do not try to write an entire communist picture … as the producers will quickly identify it and it will be killed at the front office … as a writer try to get 5 minutes of the Communist doctrine, 5 minutes of the party line in every script that you write [emphasis added].

All of this was in line with Lenin’s statement, “of all the arts, for us the most important is cinema.” Grigory Zinoviev, head of the Soviet Comintern, ordered that motion pictures “must become a mighty weapon of communist propaganda.”

Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall were among many Hollywood stars who formed a support group that traveled to Washington, DC in 1947 to defend the Hollywood Ten, calling themselves The Committee for the First Amendment,” but they withdrew when presented evidence validating the charges.

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