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Hollywood TenGroup of U.S. movie producers, directors, and screenwriters who refused to answer questions about communist affiliations before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947. The Ten—Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, Lester Cole, Edward Dmytryk, Ring Lardner, Jr., John Howard Lawson, Albert Maltz, Samuel Ornitz, Adrian Scott, and Dalton Trumbo—were charged with contempt of Congress and given prison sentences of six months to a year. After their release, they were blacklisted and unable to find work in Hollywood, though some wrote scripts under pseudonyms. The blacklist gradually disappeared in the early 1960s. |
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nbsp;Cold War fear hearings Hellman Hollywood Ten House Trumbo, perhaps the most notorious of the Hollywood Ten, served time in prison for refusing to name names in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee. Throughout the story, Jamie finds out about her grandparents and how they left Russia, about Joseph Stalin, about the unions, about the Hollywood Ten and about everyday people who lose jobs and friends because of their political beliefs. |
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