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.

Popular culture

• A King in New York a 1957 film written, produced and directed by Charlie Chaplin that satirizes HUAC.
• On the Waterfront, a film written and directed by Elia Kazan, is widely seen as a justification of Kazan's choice to testify before HUAC. Regardless, Arthur Miller withdrew from the film after being pressured to make the union goons communists, and Marlon Brando was initially unwilling to work with Kazan.
• The Crucible, a play by Arthur Miller about the Salem witch-hunts, satirizes HUAC (though not about the black list per se)
• The Front, a 1976 movie starring Woody Allen, presented one perspective of the period. It also featured several blacklisted actors - notably Zero Mostel and Herschel Bernardi - and screenwriters, and the end credits included notes as to who had been blacklisted.
• Legacy of the Hollywood Blacklist (1987) (TV) narrated by Burt Lancaster
• Guilty by Suspicion, a 1991 film starring Robert De Niro and directed by Irwin Winkler
• ' (1998) written and directed by Alexandra Isles and hosted by Morgan Freeman
• ' (2002) PBS television two-hour film about Carl Foreman's ordeal during McCarthyism. It was written and directed by outspoken conservative Lionel Chetwynd.