House Un-American Activities Committee Articles

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 [...]

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 [...]