H.U.A.C. & MCCARTHYISM – PT2

H.U.A.C. & MCCARTHYISM – PT2

October 23, 2023 Alan Royle 0

  Although membership of the Communist Party was still not illegal, those refusing to testify or answer certain questions had switched from standing on the First Amendment to invoking the Fifth Amendment, in other words endeavouring to shield themselves from self-incrimination. A ‘grey list’ came into being. Names on it […]

THE H.U.A.C & McCARTHYISM PT1

THE H.U.A.C & McCARTHYISM PT1

October 20, 2023 Alan Royle 0

  The HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee)  was created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and rebel activities in the USA by individuals or organizations suspected of having Communist ties. The threat of Communism, labelled as ‘The Red Scare’ drove a wedge between society and the US Government. As investigations […]

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT195

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT195

May 12, 2022 Alan Royle 2

  Sandra Bullock Without exception, all those who have enjoyed the privilege of working with Sandra Bullock describe her as a most pleasant, hard-working, and talented actress. She is also more than capable of both winning and losing with equal grace and humour. In 2010, she won a Best Actress […]

HOLLYWOOD & THE ‘COMMUNIST CONSPIRACY’.

HOLLYWOOD & THE ‘COMMUNIST CONSPIRACY’.

February 14, 2020 Alan Royle 6

                        To understand how the US Government came to investigate possible links between Hollywood and the Communist Party, we need to go back as far as 1938, when the Moscow show trials preceded the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact of 1939, […]

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MOVIE TRIVIA – PT47.

August 20, 2018 Alan Royle 2

    Hugh Glass Man in the Wilderness (1971) is often mistakenly thought to be a sequel to the 1970 film A Man Called Horse, presumably because Richard Harris stars in both pictures, but Harris plays two entirely different characters in each picture. The 1971 film is based on a true […]

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MOVIE TRIVIA – PT37.

July 29, 2018 Alan Royle 3

                                 Edie Adams                                        Ernie Kovacs in North to Alaska (1960)                      […]

A Snapshot of Kate Hepburn

October 12, 2017 Alan Royle 0

Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003)                    In 1937 Kate Hepburn purchased her Turtle Bay, Manhattan townhouse for $33,000, (it would be worth four and a half million dollars by the time of her death in 2003), and moved in with Howard Hughes at Muirfield […]

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Heroes & Villains – the HUAC blacklistings 1947-58.

November 8, 2016 Alan Royle 15

  When 79 individuals were subpoenaed in September 1947 by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), and charged with subversive actions and/or injecting Communist propaganda into their movies, the repercussions career-wise for many of them were long and destructive. The charges were never substantiated, but their accusers were not concerned […]

Actors’ real life war records.

December 28, 2015 admin 0

    Caine in Korea (standing second from left) Here are a few more stories about actors who participated in one or more of the conflicts of the 20th century. I will add a second segment in a couple of day’s time. Sir Michael Caine was called up for national […]

Reds under the bed – Hollywood and the HUAC.

December 10, 2015 admin 12

  John Huston directed and Sterling Hayden starred in The Asphalt Jungle in 1950. At the time both were members of The Committee for the First Amendment, a group formed in September 1947 to support the Hollywood Ten and to oppose those who wished to blacklist actors, writers etc. who […]