Actors on Red Alert: Career Interviews with Five Actors and Actresses Affected by the Blacklist

by Anthony Slide

Overview

The anti-Communist hysteria that began in the 1930s was further empowered in 1938 when the House of Representatives established the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities. Soon thereafter, 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 of political imbalance, Actors on Red Alert explores the repercussions of the blacklist through career interviews with five prominent actors and actresses.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780810836495
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	08/25/1999
Series:	The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series , #67
Pages:	198
Product dimensions:	5.72(w) x 8.84(h) x 0.65(d)

About the Author

Anthony Slide has published many books and articles on the performing arts. He is a highly respected scholar of film history, and has authored such books as The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry (1998), On Actors and Acting (1998), and Ravished Armenia and the Story of Aurora Mardiganian (1997).

Editorial Reviews

Captures the controversy and sentiments surrounding the period of political blacklisting through career interviews with five prominent actors and actresses - Phil Brown, Rose Hobart, Marsha Hunt, Marc Lawrence, and Doris Nolan. Their very different stories help to underline the impact of the blacklisting process.

Communication Booknotes Quarterly

...the five actors—Phil Brown, Rose Hobart, Marsha Hunt, Marc Lawrence, and Doris Nolan—form interesting case studies helped along through Slide's gentle prompting, utilising the blacklisting and graylisting as the bond holding each of the lives together...both vivid and invaluable...a valuable resource to students and enthusiasts alike...What is clear from Slide's patient and intelligent questioning is the vibrancy of the memories of five unequivocally different actors...

Historical Journal of Film

Although the subject's been covered before, here is the personal record on how the blacklist, a result of the inquiry of The House On UnAmerican Activities Committee, personally hurt the careers and psyche of these people.

Rapport

...the five actors--Phil Brown, Rose Hobart, Marsha Hunt, Marc Lawrence, and Doris Nolan--form interesting case studies helped along through Slide's gentle prompting, utilising the blacklisting and graylisting as the bond holding each of the lives together...both vivid and invaluable...a valuable resource to students and enthusiasts alike...What is clear from Slide's patient and intelligent questioning is the vibrancy of the memories of five unequivocally different actors...--Historical Journal of Film, Radio, & Television

Although the subject's been covered before, here is the personal record on how the blacklist, a result of the inquiry of The House On UnAmerican Activities Committee, personally hurt the careers and psyche of these people.--Rapport

Captures the controversy and sentiments surrounding the period of political blacklisting through career interviews with five prominent actors and actresses - Phil Brown, Rose Hobart, Marsha Hunt, Marc Lawrence, and Doris Nolan. Their very different stories help to underline the impact of the blacklisting process.--Communication Booknotes Quarterly

From the Publisher

...the five actors—Phil Brown, Rose Hobart, Marsha Hunt, Marc Lawrence, and Doris Nolan—form interesting case studies helped along through Slide's gentle prompting, utilising the blacklisting and graylisting as the bond holding each of the lives together...both vivid and invaluable...a valuable resource to students and enthusiasts alike...What is clear from Slide's patient and intelligent questioning is the vibrancy of the memories of five unequivocally different actors...

Historical Journal Of Film Radio & Television

...the five actors—Phil Brown, Rose Hobart, Marsha Hunt, Marc Lawrence, and Doris Nolan—form interesting case studies helped along through Slide's gentle prompting, utilising the blacklisting and graylisting as the bond holding each of the lives together...both vivid and invaluable...a valuable resource to students and enthusiasts alike...What is clear from Slide's patient and intelligent questioning is the vibrancy of the memories of five unequivocally different actors...

Historical Journal Of Film