On April 7, 2004, American philanthropist and media mogul Ted Turner, founder of CNN and TCM among others, […]
House Un-American Activities Committee
“Twenty-four was I when I was blacklisted, thirty-six when it ended. My ingenue years were gone, and my […]
As a young teenager, playing her first leading role in “The Virginia Judge” (1935), her debut feature at […]
Film history: Focus on “The Hollywood Ten”
In 1947, the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) held a first series of hearings into alleged communist propaganda […]
When I first read film director Richard Fleischer’s autobiography, ‘Just Tell Me When to Cry: A Memoir’ (published […]
