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050 00 $aPN1998.2$b.B53 1998
082 00 $a384/.8/79494/09043$221
100 1 $aBillingsley, Lloyd.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84226638
245 10 $aHollywood party :$bhow communism seduced the American film industry in the 1930s and 1940s /$cKenneth Lloyd Billingsley.
260 $aRocklin, CA :$bForum,$c[1998], ©1998.
300 $axvii :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 320-342) and index.
520 $aIn the fall of 1997 some of the biggest names in show business filled the Motion Picture Academy theater in Beverly Hills for Hollywood Remembers the Blacklist, a lavish production worthy of an Oscar telecast. Left untold that night, and ignored in books and films for more than half a century, was a story not so politically correct but vastly more complex and dramatic.
520 8 $aUsing long neglected information from public records, the personal files of key players, and recent revelations from Soviet archives, Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley uncovers the Communist Party's strategic plan for taking control of the movie industry during its golden age, a plan that came perilously close to success.
520 8 $aHe shows how the Party dominated the politics of the movie industry during the 1930s and 1940s, raising vast sums of money from unwitting liberals and conscripting industry luminaries into supporting Stalinist causes.
520 8 $aCommunist writers, actors, and directors, wealthy beyond the dreams of most Americans, posture as proletarian wage slaves as they try to influence the content of movies. From the days of the Popular Front through the Nazi-Soviet Pact and beyond World War II, they remain faithful to a regime whose brutality rivaled that of Hitler's Nazis. Their plans for control of the industry a shambles by the mid-1950s, the Party nonetheless succeeded in shaping the popular memory of those days.
650 0 $aScreenwriters$zCalifornia$zLos Angeles.
650 0 $aCommunism and motion pictures$zUnited States.
650 0 $aBlacklisting of entertainers$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009117239
650 0 $aMotion pictures$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108037
852 00 $boff,glx$hPN1998.2$i.B53 1998