Authors: Otto Friedrich
408Â Â Â Â
Chaplin had found:
McCabe,
Charlie Chaplin,
p. 212. Charles Chaplin,
My Autobiography,
p. 471.
408Â Â Â Â
Serious critics:
Dwight Macdonald,
On Movies,
p. 118 (1981).
409Â Â Â Â
None of Chaplin's:
Roger Manvell,
Chaplin,
p. 204. Chaplin,
My Autobiography,
p. 473.
410Â Â Â Â
The censors listed:
Chaplin,
My Autobiography,
pp. 474, 479, 481â4.
412Â Â Â Â
The New York premiere:
Chaplin,
My Autobiography,
p. 489.
412n   Â
By Rankin's standards:
Goodman,
The Committee,
p. 173.
413Â Â Â Â
The next day:
Film Comment,
Winter 1969. The transcript of the entire press conference appears on pp. 34ff. Chaplin's very inaccurate account is in his autobiography, pp. 486ff.
414Â Â Â Â
Agee praised:
James Agee,
Agee on Film,
vol. 1, pp. 371â2, 252â3.
415Â Â Â Â
Monsieur Verdoux
did well:
Chaplin,
My Autobiography,
pp. 490â1.
416Â Â Â Â
Here is one last note:
Author's notes on a visit to Las Vegas.
Â
9 Un-Americanism (1947).
419Â Â Â Â
Charles Laughton was:
Bruce Cook,
Brecht in Exile,
p. 174.
419Â Â Â Â
And it was quite:
James K. Lyon,
Bertolt Brecht in America,
p. 196. John Houseman,
Front and Center,
pp. 240â1.
420Â Â Â Â
That ambiguous night:
Klaus Völcker,
Brecht Chronicle,
p. 87. Lyon,
Brecht in America,
pp. 72â5.
420Â Â Â Â
His only sale:
Lyon,
Brecht in America,
pp. 104â5, 78, 102, 112.
421Â Â Â Â
The most important:
Ibid., pp. 107ff. Cook,
Brecht in Exile,
pp. 165ff. Charles Higham,
Charles Laughton,
pp. 118â25.
421Â Â Â Â
Here it was:
Bertolt Brecht,
Poems, 1913â1956,
p. 393.
422Â Â Â Â
Laughton's acerbic wife:
Elsa Lanchester,
Elsa Lanchester Herself,
p. 193. John Willett, ed.,
Brecht on Theatre,
p. 166.
422Â Â Â Â
Laughton was proud:
Brecht,
Poems,
p. 397.
422Â Â Â Â
Laughton and Brecht:
Bertolt Brecht,
Seven Plays,
p. 398.
423Â Â Â Â
There is a theory:
Frederic Ewen,
Bertolt Brecht,
pp. 340â1 (1969).
423Â Â Â Â
The first thing:
Lyon,
Brecht in America,
pp. 171, 173â4. Brecht,
Poems,
p. 405.
424Â Â Â Â
Brecht's journal:
Houseman,
Front and Center,
p. 230.
424Â Â Â Â
Galileo's crime?:
Brecht,
Seven Plays,
pp. 398â400.
425Â Â Â Â
But Brecht was:
Lyon,
Brecht in America,
pp. 176, 178â9, 184â5. Houseman,
Front and Center,
pp. 218ff.
426Â Â Â Â
Brecht, as usual:
Abe Burrows,
Honest Abe,
p. 75.
427Â Â Â Â
That kind of dialogue:
Lyon,
Brecht in America,
p. 186. Houseman,
Front and Center,
pp. 235â6, 238â9.
428Â Â Â Â
Galileo
finally opened:
Houseman,
Front and Center,
p. 237. Cook,
Brecht in Exile,
p. 180. Lyon,
Brecht in America,
p. 312.
429Â Â Â Â
On September 19:
Cook,
Brecht in Exile,
p. 183. Gordon Kahn,
Hollywood on Trial,
p. 1. The most detailed account of the Hollywood hearings, but highly partisan.
429Â Â Â Â
The process server:
Lyon,
Brecht in America,
p. 315.
429Â Â Â Â
Brecht was not much:
Lyon,
Brecht in America,
pp. 317â18. Larry Ceplair and Steven Englund,
The Inquisition in Hollywood,
p. 439. Lester Cole,
Hollywood Red,
p. 265. No one has ever explained the discrepancies between the obviously leaked lists and the list of those who were actually summoned. Both lists are given in Ceplair and Englund, pp. 439â40.
430Â Â Â Â
Although the HUAC:
Walter Goodman,
The Committee,
pp. 42, 172â4.
430Â Â Â Â
Once the 1946:
New York Times,
Nov. 20, 1970.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
Dec. 1, 1948.
431Â Â Â Â
These local controversies:
Ceplair and Englund,
The Inquisition,
p. 256.
432Â Â Â Â
Like the new:
Thomas C. Reeves,
The Life and Times of Joe McCarthy,
p. 224. Murray Kempton,
Part of Our Time,
p. 208. Arthur Marx,
Goldwyn,
p. 339.
432Â Â Â Â
What, then, was:
Goodman,
The Committee,
p. 196.
432n   Â
The official estimates:
Kempton,
Part of Our Time,
p. 198.
433Â Â Â Â
The second least:
Kahn,
Hollywood on Trial,
pp. 19, 76.
434Â Â Â Â
The Un-American:
Goodman,
The Committee,
pp. 14, 199, 184, 191. Eric Bentley, ed.,
Thirty Years of Treason: Excerpts from Hearings Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1938â1968,
pp. 59â73. A highly selective but convenient anthology of the HUAC testimony.
435Â Â Â Â
Gerhart Eisler:
Ibid., pp. 57, 59, 84â6, 94â6. Goodman,
The Committee,
p. 191.
437Â Â Â Â
J. Parnell Thomas:
Goodman,
The Committee,
p. 203.
437Â Â Â Â
Herbert Biberman:
Lester Cole,
Hollywood Red,
p. 266. Nancy Lynn Schwartz,
The Hollywood Writers' Wars,
p. 302. Cook,
Brecht in Exile,
p. 190. Bruce Cook,
Dalton Trumbo,
p. 149. Ceplair and Englund,
The Inquisition,
says ten were Jews (p. 262). Alvah Bessie, who was one of them, says thirteen were Jews (
Inquisition in Eden,
p. 191). Tom Wood,
The Bright Side of Billy Wilder, Primarily,
p. 4.
438Â Â Â Â
Biberman had invited:
Ceplair and Englund,
The Inquisition,
p. 263. Stefan Kanfer,
A Journal of the Plague Years,
p. 41.
438Â Â Â Â
The lawyers reviewed:
Ceplair and Englund,
The Inquisition,
pp. 264â5.
439Â Â Â Â
They finally decided:
Ring Lardner, Jr.,
The Lardners,
p. 320. Victor S. Navasky,
Naming Names,
p. 82 (1981). Ceplair and Englund,
The Inquisition,
p. 269.
439Â Â Â Â
In retrospect, this:
Ceplair and Englund,
The Inquisition,
p. 270. Cook,
Trumbo,
p. 187.
440Â Â Â Â
There was a:
Ceplair and Englund,
The Inquisition,
p. 265. Cook,
Trumbo,
p. 186. Edward Dmytryk,
It's a Hell of a Life but Not a Bad Living,
p. 95.
440Â Â Â Â
The only one:
Dalton Trumbo,
The Time of the Toad,
pp. 137â8. Cook,
Trumbo,
p. 191.
440Â Â Â Â
But the nineteen:
Lardner,
The Lardners,
p. 325. Ceplair and Englund,
The Inquisition,
p. 275.
440n   Â
Or so Dmytryk said:
Bentley,
Thirty Years,
p. 394.
441Â Â Â Â
The committee gathered:
Cole,
Hollywood Red,
pp. 269â70.
441Â Â Â Â
No less important:
Bentley,
Thirty Years,
p. 192. Cole,
Hollywood Red,
p. 269.
442Â Â Â Â
The best technique:
John Keats,
Howard Hughes,
pp. 200ff. Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele,
Empire,
pp. 145ff.
442Â Â Â Â
Brewster had reasons:
Keats,
Howard Hughes,
pp. 202â5. Barlett and Steele,
Empire,
p. 145.
444Â Â Â Â
To deal with this:
Keats,
Howard Hughes,
pp. 205â8, 209â13, 216â21.
446Â Â Â Â
The Spruce Goose:
Barlett and Steele,
Empire,
p. 158.
446Â Â Â Â
When the nineteen:
Howard Koch,
As Time Goes By,
p. 167. Kahn,
Hollywood on Trial,
p. 62.
446Â Â Â Â
But the producers:
Kahn,
Hollywood on Trial,
pp. 5â6. Kanfer,
Journal of the Plague Years,
p. 41.
447Â Â Â Â
The committee had:
Kahn,
Hollywood on Trial,
p. 6. Goodman,
The Committee,
p. 207.
Hearings Regarding the Communist Infiltration of the Motion Picture Industry,
p. 1. The basic text.
447Â Â Â Â
No sooner had:
Kahn,
Hollywood on Trial,
p. 63. Norman Zierold,
The Moguls,
p. 235.
448Â Â Â Â
There was also:
John Huston,
An Open Book,
p. 147.
HUAC Hearings,
pp. 10â11.
449Â Â Â Â
Splendid, splendid, but:
HUAC Hearings,
pp. 12, 15â16, 19, 53, 33â5, 38â9, 44. Kahn,
Hollywood on Trial,
pp. 17, 23, 53.
453Â Â Â Â
The next major:
HUAC Hearings,
pp. 70â3. Cole,
Hollywood Red,
p. 272. Kahn,
Hollywood on Trial,
p. 29.
454Â Â Â Â
It was clear:
HUAC Hearings,
pp. 71, 75. Kahn,
Hollywood on Trial,
pp. 28, 53.
455Â Â Â Â
Mayer was perhaps:
New York Times,
Feb. 11, 1944.
HUAC Hearings,
p. 74. Kahn,
Hollywood on Trial,
p. 31.
456Â Â Â Â
For a more critical:
Bentley,
Thirty Years,
p. 111. Nora Sayre,
Running Time,
p. 68.
458Â Â Â Â
The rest of:
HUAC Hearings,
pp. 283, 352â6.
459Â Â Â Â
And so on:
Kahn,
Hollywood on Trial,
pp. 35â6, 140. Bentley,
Thirty Years,
pp. 122, 139, 144â9.
New York Daily News,
Aug. 26, 1985.
461Â Â Â Â
This first week:
Ceplair and Englund,
The Inquisition,
pp. 281â2. Alvah Bessie,
Inquisition in Eden,
p. 222.
462Â Â Â Â
Over the bugged:
Lauren Bacall, By Myself,
p. 159.
462Â Â Â Â
Huston was dining:
Huston,
An Open Book,
p. 148.
462n   Â
Congressman Rankin soon:
Kanfer,
Journal of the Plague Years,
p. 73.
463Â Â Â Â
The First Amendment:
Lauren Bacall,
p. 160.
463Â Â Â Â
Chairman Thomas:
Evelyn Keyes,
Scarlett O'Hara's Younger Sister,
p. 121 (1978).
463Â Â Â Â
Lawson, newly:
Ceplair and Englund,
The Inquisition,
pp. 87, 307, 233â5. Schwartz,
Hollywood Writers' Wars,
pp. 59, 311, 152, 235.
464n   Â
Mocking the famous:
Murray Kempton,
Part of Our Time,
pp. 193â4.
465Â Â Â Â
But now, seated:
Bentley,
Thirty Years,
pp. 153â61.
469Â Â Â Â
It was rather:
HUAC Hearings,
pp. 306, 315, 307â8.
470Â Â Â Â
The kind of man:
Schwartz,
Hollywood Writers' Wars,
p. 319. Kahn,
Hollywood on Trial,
pp. 78â81. Huston,
An Open Book,
p. 150.
471Â Â Â Â
Paul Henreid recalled:
Paul Henreid,
Ladies' Man,
pp. 184â5.
Lauren Bacall,
p. 163. Schwartz,
Hollywood Writers' Wars,
p. 281. Ceplair and Englund,
The Inquisition,
p. 291.
472Â Â Â Â
Others went home:
Ronald Reagan and Richard C. Hubler,
Where's the Rest of Me?,
p. 229. Doug McClelland,
Hollywood on Ronald Reagan,
pp. 76, 74.
472Â Â Â Â
Ann Sheridan liked:
Joe Morella and Edward Z. Epstein,
Jane Wyman,
p. 71. June Allyson,
June Allyson,
p. 96.