The Final Victim of the Blacklist: John Howard Lawson, Dean of the Hollywood Ten

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Index 347 Abbott, George, 38 Academy Awards, 173 Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, 95–96 ACLU. See American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Actors: labor organizing and, 97, 99; Lawson’s criticism of, 46, 47–48, 109, 121; Stanislavski method and, 226. See also Hollywood stars Adler, Stella, 75 aesthetics, 254–55 African Americans: ASP and, 234–35; HDC and, 171; Hollywood exclusion of, 10, 13, 151, 217; Lawson and, 149–51, 162–63, 234–35, 239–40; Scottsboro Nine case and, 84–88; support for Lawson from, 216–17. See also antiracism Agee, James, xviii, 151, 169 ALA. See Authors League of America (ALA) Alabama, 84–88, 89 Alberti, Rafael, 235 Aldridge, Ira, 240 Alea, Tomas Gutierrez, 249 Algren, Nelson, 144 All Quiet on the Western Front (film), 225 Allyson, June, 231 Altman, Mischa, 119 American Academy of Dramatic Arts, 18 American Author’s Authority (AAA), 175–76, 186 American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 201 American Federation of Labor, 101–2 American Protective League (APL), 116 Anderson, Maxwell, 52 Anderson, Sherwood, 32, 127 anticommunism: bigotry and, 208, 232; California legislature and, 161–64, 182–83; impact on Hollywood , 203–6; moguls and, 116, 123; World War II and, 149. See also “blacklist”; House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) antifascism, 129–30; films and, 108–12, 128–29; LAW and, 147; wartime alliance with Soviet Union and, 160. See also Communist Party (CPUSA); political views of Lawson Anti-Nazi League, 129–30, 132 antiracism: HDC/HICCASP and, 171, 172–73; Lawson’s work and, xviii– xix, 13, 149–51, 209, 222–25, 239–40; liberal Hollywood and, 203–4; questioning of Lawson on, 162–63; SWG and, 176 anti-Semitism, 3, 89, 128; film content and, 12, 271n25; Hollywood and, 88–89, 173–74, 232; LAW and, 146–47; Lawson’s experiences of, 7–9, 15, 16, 17, 86, 128, 163, 207–8; postwar rise in, 173–75, 207–8; Schulberg’s novel and, 135–37; UnAmerican Activities hearings and, xi, 7, 163, 164. See also Jewish Americans Arnold, Thurman, 227 “art as a weapon” concept, 249–50 ASP. See Council of Arts, Sciences and Professions (ASP) Associated Film Audiences, 111 Atkinson, Brooks, 75, 107 Atlanta Journal, 196 “auteur theory,” xv, xxi Authors League of America (ALA), 96 Bacall, Lauren, ix, 189, 201, 231 Baldwin, Roger, 44, 127, 201 Ball, Lucille, 201 Bank of America, 154 Bara, Theda, 62 Barber, Philip, 99, 141 Barrymore, Ethel, 188 Barrymore, John, 19 Barzman, Ben, 267 Barzman, Norma, 167 Bass, Charlotta, xix, 164, 200, 239 Basshe, Em Jo, 41 Belushi, Jim, 151 Benchley, Robert, 32 Benét, Stephen Vincent, 64 Bennett, Joan, 188 Berkeley, Martin, 2, 273n72 Bernstein, Leona, 188 Bernstein, Walter, 2, 2, 213 Bessie, Alvah, 154, 160, 197, 211, 212 Biberman, Herbert, 219 Billingsley, Kenneth Lloyd, 32 “blacklist”: anti-Semitism and, xi; association with Lawson and, xvi– xvii; beginning of, 99–104; disrespect for writers’ unions and, 266; end of, xxii, 246–47; “fronts” and, 243–44; Hollywood Ten and, 222–40; HUAC and, 187; impacts on movie industry, 9–13, 206–7, 268; Jim Crow and, 216, 234–35; lawsuits against, 227–28, 249, 331n32; ripple effect of, xvi–xvii, 206; SWG and, 139–40, 229–31 Blankfort, Michael, 118, 160, 286n61, 302n69 BMP. See Bureau of Motion Pictures (BMP) B’Nai B’rith of Los Angeles, 8 Bogart, Humphrey, ix, xvi, 159, 194, 201, 231; Action in the North Atlantic and, 152; HDC and, 171; HUAC and, 189; Sahara and, 149–50, 151 Bolívar, Simon, 227 Bowman, Lee, 168 Boyer, Charles, 118, 120–21, 122 Brabin, Charles, 62 Bradbury, Ray, 230 Brecht, Bertolt, 42, 211, 249 Breen, Joseph, 88, 91, 109, 110, 123, 129, 131, 151, 193; Smashup and, 168 Brewer, Roy, xiv, 229 Bridge on the River Kwai (film), 267 Bridges, Harry, 129 Bright, John, 214 British screenwriters, 264–65 Broun, Heywood, 107, 127 Browder, Earl, 84–85 Brown, John Mason, 71 Brown, Lloyd, 240 Buchman, Harold, 176 Buchman, Sidney, 100 Buffington, Adele, 229 Bureau of Motion Pictures (BMP), 152–53 Burns, George, 172 Butler, Jean, 180 Butler, Smedley, 128 Cagney, James, 91, 132, 175 Cain, James, 175–76, 299n29 348 / Index California legislature: Committee on Un-American Activities hearing (1944), 161–63; Committee on UnAmerican Activities hearing (1946), 182–83; Hollywood Quarterly and, 161–63 Campbell, George, 120 Cantor, Eddie, 188, 200 Caplon, Ben, 198 Capp, Al, 216 Capra, Frank, 11 Careless Years...