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Witch Hunt in Hollywood: McCarthyism's War On Tinseltown

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This is the story of how the politicians took Tinseltown to task in the late 1940s and 1950s. As the Cold War with the Soviet Union began in earnest, the search for ‘Reds under the bed’, later led by Senator Joseph McCarthy, was felt most keenly in Hollywood where the investigations were carried out under the full glare of the flashlights.

Painstakingly researched and drawing on numerous exclusive interviews, the book charts the generation of actors who found their livelihood ruined by being ‘blacklisted’ and the writers forced to hire ‘fronts’ to continue to work; it reveals how Arthur Miller was offered the chance to have his hearing dropped in return for a photo-opportunity with Marilyn Monroe; and how Kirk Douglas’s naming of Dalton Trumbo as the writer of Spartacus signalled the end of this extraordinary era.

Witch Hunt in Hollywood is the definitive account of how political paranoia shaped cinema for a decade.

Michael Freedland is an author, journalist and broadcaster. He has written over 40 books, many of them telling the stories of the Hollywood greats, from Frank Sinatra to Al Jolson. He is also a BBC broadcaster and writes regularly for national newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic.

© 2014 Aurum (E-bog): 9781781314036

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E-bog: 1. april 2014

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