Hollywood blacklist

The Hollywood blacklist was a group of mainly film actors, directors, and screenwriters in the late 1940s and early 1950s who were unable to work openly after having been targeted by the House Committee on Un-American Activities for alleged communist activities. The day after being cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to give testimony, a Hollywood blacklisting policy was implemented by the studio executives through the MPAA in what has become known as the Waldorf Statement.

Blacklisted artists

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• Allen Adler, screenwriter
• Larry Adler, actor, musician
• Orson Bean, actor
• Barbara Bel Geddes, actress
• Herschel Bernardi, actor
• Walter Bernstein, screenwriter
• John Berry, actor, screenwriter, director
• Marc Blitzstein, composer
• Allen Boretz, songwriter
• Phoebe Brand, actress
• Bertolt Brecht, screenwriter
• J. Edward Bromberg, actor
• Sidney Buchman, screenwriter
• Hugo Butler, screenwriter
• Morris Carnovsky, actor
• Jerome Chodorov, writer
• Aaron Copland, composer
• Jeff Corey, actor
• John Cromwell director
• Jules Dassin, director
• Roger De Koven, actor
• Paul Draper, actor, dancer
• Hanns Eisler, composer
• Cy Endfield, screenwriter, director
• John Henry Faulk, radio personality
• Jerry Fielding, composer
• Carl Foreman, producer, screenwriter
• John Garfield, actor
• Betty Garrett, actress
• Will Geer, actor
• Jack Gilford, actor
• Bernard Gordon, screenwriter
• Lloyd Gough, actor
• Lee Grant, actress
• Dashiell Hammett, writer
• Sterling Hayden, actor
• Lillian Hellman, playwright
• Marsha Hunt, actress
• Sidney Kingsley, playwright
• Sam Jaffe, actor
• Paul Jarrico, producer, screenwriter
• Gordon Kahn, screenwriter
• Pert Kelton, actress
• Victor Kilian, actor
• Howard Koch, screenwriter, actor

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• Alexander Knox, actor
• Arthur Laurents, writer
• Marc Lawrence, actor
• John Howard Lawson, writer
• Canada Lee, actor
• Robert Lees, screenwriter
• Louise Lewis, actress
• Philip Loeb, actor
• Joseph Losey, director
• Arnold Manoff, screenwriter
• Robert A. McGowan, screenwriter, director
• Burgess Meredith, actor
• Arthur Miller, playwright
• Karen Morley, actress
• Zero Mostel, actor
• Jean Muir, actress
• Clifford Odets, writer
• Dorothy Parker, writer
• Larry Parks, actor
• Leo Penn, actor
• Abraham Polonsky, screenwriter, director
• John Randolph, actor
• Maurice Rapf, screenwriter
• Anne Revere, actress
• Rosaura Revueltas, actress
• Frederic I. Rinaldo, screenwriter
• Martin Ritt, actor, director
• Paul Robeson, actor, singer
• Edwin Rolfe, poet
• Robert Rossen, screenwriter
• Jean Rouverol, actress, writer
• Waldo Salt, screenwriter
• Pete Seeger, folk singer
• Irwin Shaw, writer
• Joshua Shelley, actor
• Howard Da Silva, actor
• Gale Sondergaard, actress
• Lionel Stander, actor
• Frank Tarloff, screenwriter
• Dorothy Tree, actress
• Louis Untermeyer, poet
• Michael Wilson, screenwriter
• Richard N. Wright, writer
• Nedrick Young, actor, screenwriter

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