Article by Dan Georgakas from the Encyclopedia of the American Left documenting the persecution of suspected Communists in the entertainment industry. ... Eric Johnston, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, pledged that he would "never be party to anything as un-American as a blacklist.
www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/blacklist.html www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/blacklist.html
With the presentation of the Motion Picture Academy's Honorary Award to director Elia Kazan, the whole issue of the 1950s Hollywood Blacklist once again rose to the surface. ... Committee Chairman J. Parnell Thomas called Hollywood celebrities to testify. Among the committee members was California Congressman Richard M. Nixon.
www.classicmovies.org/articles/aa032899.htm
Last year he became the first of its celebrity followers – for whom the church maintains a "Celebrity Centre" – to break with it, after giving Scientology ...
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Ward Bond (1903–1960), a vocal pillar of the pro-blacklist Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, as a bullying lynch mob leader whose scripted "string 'em up" dialogue sounds much like Bond's offscreen anti-Communist remarks. ... Profiles of America's Beloved TV Celebrities (35) ...
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Short biographies of the individuals who refused to testify in HUAC's hearings, thereby earning a place on the blacklist. ... Web resources on the Hollywood blacklist (via Yahoo)
www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/blacklist.html www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/blacklist.html
Despite all the breast-beating that has gone on about the anticommunist blacklist organized in the 1950s and all the promises that such a thing would never be repeated, the American film industry slips back into suppressing dissent and punishing dissenters as easily as though it were putting on a comfortable pair...
www.wsws.org/articles/2003/mar2003/mcca-m22.shtml
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They're all on a 19-page blacklist of "anti-gun" individuals, including authors, religious organizations, businesses and celebrities compiled by the National Rifle Association. And like many blacklists, the purpose is all too clear: to intimidate and silence anyone who disagrees with the NRA's extremist agenda.
www.nrablacklist.com/ www.nrablacklist.com/
Screen Actors Guild warns the entertain,ent industry not to blacklist celebrities who are outspoken on their views about a war with Iraq including Martin Sheen and Sean Penn. Up to the minute entertainment news. ... Reuters reports that the Screen Actors Guild has received a slew of hate mail directed at celebrities,
www.hollywood.com/news/SAG_Warns_Against_Blacklisting/1... www.hollywood.com/news/SAG_Warns_Against_Blacklisting/1709258