Actors On Red Alert: Career Interviews With Five Actors And Actresses Affected By The Blacklist; Author: Slide, Anthony; Hardback; Book

Author: Slide, Anthony
Series#:67; Scarecrow Filmmakers; Hardback; Book; Illustrations
192 pages
Published: October 1999
Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810836491

The anti-Communist hysteria that began in the 1930s was further empowered in 1938 when the House of Representatives established the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Soon there-after, the creation of the blacklist in the late 1940s brought the Hollywood film and television community into the fold. Provocatively capturing the controversy and sentiments surrounding this period ofpolitical imbalance, Actors on Red Alert explores the repercussions of the blacklist through career interviews with five prominent actors and actresses.The anti-Communist hysteria that began in the 1930s was further empowered in 1938 with the establishment of the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities. The creation of a blacklist brought the Hollywood film community into the fold. This text explores the repercussions of this blacklist.