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Y200 Politics and Film

Y200 Politics and Film. September 15, 2011. McCarthyism Comes to Hollywood. National paranoia ensued when the Soviets expanded their influence into E. Europe after WW2 and Nationalists were defeated in China in 1949.

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Y200 Politics and Film

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  1. Y200 Politics and Film September 15, 2011

  2. McCarthyism Comes to Hollywood • National paranoia ensued when the Soviets expanded their influence into E. Europe after WW2 and Nationalists were defeated in China in 1949. • In 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy began his campaign against Communists inside the U.S. government. • The House established an Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC for short).

  3. The Theme of Betrayal • McCarthy and HUAC would first ask about individual’s participation in Communist Party. • Then they would grant clemency for naming others. • Named individuals were blacklisted. Gary Cooper testifying before HUAC in Hollywood

  4. The Hollywood Ten From left,—front row: Herbert Biberman, attorneys Martin Popper and Robert W. Kenny, Albert Maltz, Lester Cole,—second row: Dalton Trumbo, John Howard Lawson, Alvah Bessie, Samuel Ornitz—back row: Ring Lardner Jr., Edward Dmytryk, Adrian Scott.

  5. Other Hollywood Victims of McCarthyism • Edward G. Robinson • Howard da Silva • Judy Holliday • Lee J. Cobb • Elia Kazan • Clifford Odets • Lillian Hellman • Lucille Ball • Marsha Hunt Source: Gene Brown, Movie Time, p. 209.

  6. The End of McCarthyism • Eisenhower finally decided to fight when McCarthy went after the U.S. Army. • McCarthy committed suicide. • J. Edgar Hoover continued the campaign against Communist subversives. • Subsequently, U.S. politicians were afraid of reigniting the “Red Scare.” Almost all became committed anti-communists.

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