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Article: Stalin's film friends.(Commentary)(Op-Ed)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- October 21, 1997
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During the McCarthy era, anti-communist zealots rode into Hollywood and smeared anyone remotely associated with the Left, leaving a noble group of idealists to suffer the rigors of the blacklist.
That's the black-and-white version found in films such as Woody Allen's "The Front" and "Guilty by Suspicion" with Robert De Niro. The real story is more complicated and the 50th anniversary of the Hollywood hearings is a good time to set the record straight.
The late senator from Wisconsin never had anything to do with Hollywood. The events that led to the 1947 hearings by the House Committee on Un-American Activities (a group which began during the 1930s ...