Anthony Slide on HOLLYWOOD’S BLACKLISTS: A POLITICAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY
Anthony Slide on Reynold Humphries‘ Hollywood’s Blacklists: A Political and Cultural History:
"The entire history of the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) is well recorded. The author explains the origins of the Blacklist, dating the story from Roosevelt’s election in 1932 and the rise of what he describes as the Liberal-Communist Alliance. The Alliance quickly ended with the 1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact, but the damage had been done to the liberal elements in Hollywood. They had, and continued to develop, a history. It is all here: Upton Sinclair’s running for the governorship of California in 1934, the rise of the Guilds and unions and their struggles for recognition, and, of course, Hollywood’s [...]
by Andre Soares | December 18, 2008
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Marc Lawrence
Actor Marc Lawrence died of heart failure in Palm Springs, about 160 km east of Los Angeles, on Nov. 27. He was 95.
The Brooklyn-born (as Max Goldsmith) rough-looking actor, who once described himself as “pock-marked and oily-skinned,” appeared in more than 100 films from the early 1930s to the beginning of the 21st century, generally playing vicious outlaws.
Having begun his acting career with Eva Le Gallienne’s repertory company, Lawrence moved to Los Angeles in 1932 and started playing small parts in films. Four years later, he landed a contract at Harry Cohn’s Columbia Pictures.
Among his dozens of films during that period are Final Hour (1936); Criminals of the Air (1937), with a very young Rita Hayworth (with whom Lawrence claimed [...]
