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Red Star Over Hollywood: The Film Colony's Long Romance with the Left
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Using material from Hollywood insiders, the authors trace the growth of the Communist Party from the 1920s, when stars like Charlie Chaplin and Groucho Marx toured the Soviet Union and came back converted, through the 1930s and the war years, when the party achieved critical mass in Hollywood.

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Until now, Hollywood's political history has been dominated by a steady stream of films and memoirs decrying the nightmare of the Red Scare. But Ronald and Allis Radosh show that the real drama of that era lay in the story of the movie stars, directors and especially screenwriters who joined the Communist Party or traveled in its orbit, and made the Party the focus of their political and social lives. The authors' most controversial discovery is that during the investigations of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, the Hollywood Reds themselves were beset by doubts and disagreements about their disloyalty to America, and their own treatment by the Communist Party. Abandoned by their old CP allies, they faced the Blacklist alone.

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WHAT BETTER PLACE FOR THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION'S PROMISE OF A utopian classless society to take hold than in Hollywood, the capital of dreams?

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  • Title Red Star Over Hollywood: The Film Colony's Long Romance with the Left
  • Author Ronald Radosh
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Paperback
  • Pages 296
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Encounter Books, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
  • Publication date July 25, 2006
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9781594031465 / 1594031460
  • Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.98 x 6.02 x 0.72 in (22.81 x 15.29 x 1.83 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: Southern California
    • Cultural Region: Western U.S.
    • Cultural Region: West Coast
    • Geographic Orientation: California
    • Locality: Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA
  • Category Pop Arts / Pop Culture
  • Library of Congress subjects United States, Communism and motion pictures - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2006012553
  • Dewey Decimal Code 384.809

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  • Reference and Research Bk News, 05/01/2007, Page 245

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