The Red and the Blacklist (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Norma Barzman
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Time of Work: 1942-1999
- Setting: The United States; England; and France
- Principal Characters: Norma Barzman, Adrian Scott, Edward Dmytryk, Sophia Loren, Harold Robbins
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: 1950’s, Freedom, 1960’s, Husbands, United States or Americans, Wives, Journalism or journalists, Communism or communists, France or French people, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Europe or Europeans, Exile or expatriates, Marriage, 1940’s, California, Women, Government, Films, movies, or motion pictures, Hollywood, Espionage or spies, Entertaining or entertainers, Career women, Legislative bodies
- Locales: France, United States, England
Norma Barzman’s memoir describes the first wave of the 1947 anti-Red investigation, which bore striking parallels to the Salem, Massachusetts, witch-hunt three centuries earlier. The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) issued nineteen subpoenas to prominent writers and directors. Most were friends of Norma and Ben Barzman and either “fellow travelers” or Communist Party members. Eleven of the nineteen were ordered to testify before Congress, including Dalton Trumbo (author of Johnny Got His Gun, 1939), Albert Maltz, Ring Lardner, Jr., and John Howard Lawson,...
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