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.

References

James J. Lorence : The Suppression of Salt of the Earth. How Hollywood, Big Labor, and Politicians Blacklisted a Movie in Cold War America. University of New Mexico Press: 1999. ISBN 0-8263-2027-9 (cloth) ISBN 0-8263-2028-7 (paper)

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Memoirs about the blacklist years were written by several of the individuals who were blacklisted.

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• Hollywood Exile, or, How I Learned To Love the Blacklist - Bernard Gordon
• I'd Hate Myself In The Morning: A Memoir - Ring Lardner, Jr.
• Back Lot: Growing Up With The Movies - Maurice Rapf
• Inside Out : A Memoir of the Blacklist - Walter Bernstein
• Refugees from Hollywood: A Journal of the Blacklist Years - Jean Rouverol