Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy Was Correct All Along!!!!!! They're We're Communist Sympathizers/Soviet Spies Working In The Federal Government During The Franklin D. Roosevelt Administration In The 1930's Through The Early 1940's, Still To This Day A Lot Of Pinko Commies And Socialist As Well As Liberals Still Say McCarthy Ruined A Lot Of Innocent Lives Which It Isn't True At All!!!! They Weren't Innocent To Begin With!!!!!

But If You Think About It Communism Was A Threat In The United States In The 1930's, 1940's, 1950's And 1960's Because i

The Hollywood 10 Weren't Innocent They We're All Communist Trying To Undermine The Movie Industry In Hollywood At The Time!!!! None Of The Hollywood Actors, Directors, Musicians And Screenwriters Weren't Innocent They We're All Members Of The Communist Party USA!!!! And A Lot Of The People Who We're Blacklisted From Hollywood We're Very Wealthy People!!!!

I Wouldn't Consider WW2 1939-1945 Films Made By Hollywood To Be WW2 Propaganda Films They're Educational/Patriotic/

I Don't Consider WW2 1939-1945 Films Made By Hollywood To Be p

I'm Glad HUAC The House Of Un-American Activities Committee Investigated Hollywood In 1947 Because They're We're Communist In The Movie Industry!!!!

Obviously It Dosen't Surprise Me That New York Back In The 1930's, 1940's, 1950's, 1960's And 1970's Especially New York City Was Filled With A Bunch A Pinko Commies & Socialist At The Time!!!!

Brandeis professor Tom Doherty joins us to discuss his new book about the 1947 Congressional hearings that led directly to Hollywood's anti-Communist blacklist. We start by untangling a few terms often used to describe the events of the time--HUAC, McCarthyism, the Red Scare--and the overall timeline of events in and around the hearings (2:15). 

Then we discuss the perspectives and strategies adopted by each of the main factions from Hollywood who were involved in the 1947 hearings: the studio bosses and their industry representatives from the MPAA (19:20), the staunch anti-Communist conservatives of the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals (34:55), the activist anti-HUAC liberals of the Committee for the First Amendment (44:45), and the Communist party members and sympathizers known as the Unfriendly Nineteen, whose ranks were randomly culled to the Hollywood Ten (51:30). 

We finish with how the end of the hearings led rapidly to the blacklist (1:03:30), the role that film noir played in smuggling what may have been considered subversive content into movies of the time (1:10:00), and a story about one of the last surviving people who was directly involved in the hearings, Marsha Hunt (1:15:00). 

Tom Doherty's book is available at: https://www.amazon.com/Show-Trial-Hollywood-Blacklist-Culture/dp/0231187785

Screenshots from several noir films where Diego Rivera's painting The Flower Carrier appears in the background, a possible sign of solidarity with victims of the blacklist: https://twitter.com/EddieMuller/status/934043742280884225  

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Music: Themes from I Walk Alone (by Victor Young), Crossfire (Roy Webb), and Dark Passage (Franz Waxman).

Ep 16: Show Trial - Hollywood, HUAC, and the Birth of the Blacklist, with Tom Doherty

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Ep 16: Show Trial - Hollywood, HUAC, and the Birth of the Blacklist, with Tom Doherty

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