In the fall of 1947, a group of ten prominent artists working in film who were to enter American history as the Hollywood Ten, were subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) as part of investigations into "the extent of...

HUAC, the Blacklist, and the Decline of Social Cinema BRIAN NEVE The Origins of the Blacklist The on Un-American Activities (HUAG) to hold hearings on communism in Hollywood. The committee had been formed in 1938, but only became a standing committee of...

House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC or HCUA[1]) (1938–1975) was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives. In 1969, the House changed the committee's name to the House Committee on Internal Security. When the...

Memories of HUAC The fortieth anniversary of the opening of House Un-American Activities Committee hearings on "alleged Communist infiltration' of the motion picture industry occurred recently. On October 19, to be exact. It is not a date I celebrate, but I'll never...

A few weeks ago Hollywood residents discovered that there was no longer a building called the Robert Taylor Building. Disappeared, gone with the wind. Not the building itself, understand. It was still there, with its new owner, Lorimar Productions (Dallas, etc.), but it...

Bernard Gordon, a screenwriter blacklisted during Hollywood's anti-communist crusade in the 1950s, has died. He was 88.Gordon died Friday at his Hollywood Hills home after a long battle with cancer, according to his daughter, Ellen Gordon."He was highly principled, scrupulously honest," his daughter said. "He...

Charley AneLOS ANGELES (AP) _ Charley Ane, a standout tackle for Southern California in the early 1950s and then an All-Pro lineman for the Detroit Lions, has died. He was 76.Ane died Wednesday in Honolulu of pneumonia following a long illness.He graduated from Punahou High...