Tender Comrades

by McGilligan, Patrick; Buhle, Paul; Morley, Alison; Winburn, William B.

• ISBN13: 9780816680375
• ISBN10: 081668037X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-07-26
• Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr

Summary

More than sixty years ago, McCarthyism silenced Hollywood. In the pages of Tender Comrades, those who were suppressed, whose lives and careers were ruined, finally have their say. A unique collection of profiles in cinematic courage, this extraordinary oral history brings to light the voices of thirty-six blacklist survivors (including two members of the Hollywood Ten), seminal directors of film noir and other genres, starring actresses and memorable supporting players, top screenwriters, and many less known to the public, who are rescued from obscurity by the stories they offer here that, beyond politics, open a rich window into moviemaking during the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Author Biography

Patrick McGilligan has written several acclaimed biographies, including Alfred Hitch-cock: A Life in Darkness and Light (a finalist for the Edgar Award) and New York Times Notable Books about George Cukor and Fritz Lang. His five-volume Backstory series is the definitive oral history of American screenwriting. Paul Buhle is a retired senior lecturer at Brown University and the founder of the Oral History of the American Left archive at New York University. He is the author or editor of more than forty books.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: Meet the People	p. xiii
Norma Barzman (and Ben Barzman)	p. 1
Leonardo Bercovici	p. 29
Walter Bernstein	p. 43
John (Jack) Berry	p. 55
Alvah Bessie	p. 90
Allen Boretz	p. 112
John Bright	p. 128
Jean Rouverol Butler (and Hugo Butler)	p. 155
Jeff Corey	p. 177
Jules Dassin	p. 199
Edward Eliscu	p. 225
Anne Froelick	p. 250
Bernard Gordon	p. 260
Faith Hubley (and John Hubley)	p. 279
Marsha Hunt	p. 305
Paul Jarrico	p. 325
Mickey Knox	p. 351
Millard Lampell	p. 389
Ring Lardner Jr.	p. 404
Robert Lees	p. 415
Alfred Lewis Levitt (and Helen Slote Levitt)	p. 441
Karen Morley	p. 470
Abraham Polonsky	p. 481
Maurice Rapf	p. 495
Betsy Blair Reisz	p. 540
Martin Ritt	p. 556
Marguerite Roberts, (and John Sanford)	p. 571
Joan LaCour Scott (and Adrian Scott)	p. 585
Lionel Stander	p. 607
Bess Taffel	p. 626
Frank Tarloff	p. 642
Bernard Vorhaus	p. 657
John Weber	p. 682
John Wexley	p. 698
Julian Zimet (aka Julian Halevy)	p. 722
Selected Bibliography	p. 749
About the Contributors	p. 753
Index	p. 755
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