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Decades have passed and the Cold War has ended. Yet the blacklist era in Hollywood still makes those who lived through it wince, even as efforts continue long after the fact to credit writers barred from working under their real names in the s.
” `Front.` It`s a terrible word. It connotes a kind of sneakiness,”
said screenwriter Millard Kaufman, 75, who once was a front.
Many would call what he did heroic. In , at great personal risk, Kaufman allowed blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo to use his name as a front for Trumbo`s in credits for the film ”Gun Crazy.”
Known as one of the Hollywood 10, Trumbo had recently been released from a year in jail for refusing to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee, which began investigating communist influence in the film industry in The two writers had met only once before, over drinks, but they shared the same agent, who set up the arrangement.
”I never saw the picture, and I never got a cent for it or expected to,” said Kaufman, who is perhaps best known for creating the cartoon character Mr. Magoo. His screenwriting credits include such classics as ”Bad Day at Black Rock” () and ”Raintree County” ().
If discovered, his fronting could have landed him in pr
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Hollywood Exiles in Europe
In a recent blog, I mentioned Rebecca Prime and her newly published book from Rutgers University Press, Hollywood Exiles in Europe: The Blacklist and Cold War Film Culture(). The book of was of interest to me, not only because Rebecca is a former UCLA student from my Silent Film class in , but also because I have written extensively about German-Jewish exiles in Hollywood and wanted to see how she handled a similar phenomenon. Hollywood Exiles presents a previously untold history of the Hollywood blacklist, while contextualizing the fates of blacklisted writers and directors who emigrated to Europe within larger developments in post-WWII European film industries. These developments include the spate of British and French film noirs, produced in the s in the wake of the reception of American noir; the move towards transnational co-productions with European tax credits and runaway Hollywood productions; and the birth of various “New Waves” as art cinemas. Suddenly, we can see the exiles in the center, rather than at the margins of these histories, thanks to Rebecca Prime.
Certainly, there is a growing literature on the Hollywood blacklist, which began with Larry Ceplair and Steven Englund’s ground-breaking The Inquisition in Hollywood: