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408    
Chaplin had found:
McCabe,
Charlie Chaplin,
p. 212. Charles Chaplin,
My Autobiography,
p. 471.

408    
Serious critics:
Dwight Macdonald,
On Movies,
p. 118 (1981).

409    
None of Chaplin's:
Roger Manvell,
Chaplin,
p. 204. Chaplin,
My Autobiography,
p. 473.

410    
The censors listed:
Chaplin,
My Autobiography,
pp. 474, 479, 481–4.

412    
The New York premiere:
Chaplin,
My Autobiography,
p. 489.

412n    
By Rankin's standards:
Goodman,
The Committee,
p. 173.

413    
The next day:
Film Comment,
Winter 1969. The transcript of the entire press conference appears on pp. 34ff. Chaplin's very inaccurate account is in his autobiography, pp. 486ff.

414    
Agee praised:
James Agee,
Agee on Film,
vol. 1, pp. 371–2, 252–3.

415    
Monsieur Verdoux
did well:
Chaplin,
My Autobiography,
pp. 490–1.

416    
Here is one last note:
Author's notes on a visit to Las Vegas.

 

9 Un-Americanism (1947).

419    
Charles Laughton was:
Bruce Cook,
Brecht in Exile,
p. 174.

419    
And it was quite:
James K. Lyon,
Bertolt Brecht in America,
p. 196. John Houseman,
Front and Center,
pp. 240–1.

420    
That ambiguous night:
Klaus Völcker,
Brecht Chronicle,
p. 87. Lyon,
Brecht in America,
pp. 72–5.

420    
His only sale:
Lyon,
Brecht in America,
pp. 104–5, 78, 102, 112.

421    
The most important:
Ibid., pp. 107ff. Cook,
Brecht in Exile,
pp. 165ff. Charles Higham,
Charles Laughton,
pp. 118–25.

421    
Here it was:
Bertolt Brecht,
Poems, 1913–1956,
p. 393.

422    
Laughton's acerbic wife:
Elsa Lanchester,
Elsa Lanchester Herself,
p. 193. John Willett, ed.,
Brecht on Theatre,
p. 166.

422    
Laughton was proud:
Brecht,
Poems,
p. 397.

422    
Laughton and Brecht:
Bertolt Brecht,
Seven Plays,
p. 398.

423    
There is a theory:
Frederic Ewen,
Bertolt Brecht,
pp. 340–1 (1969).

423    
The first thing:
Lyon,
Brecht in America,
pp. 171, 173–4. Brecht,
Poems,
p. 405.

424    
Brecht's journal:
Houseman,
Front and Center,
p. 230.

424    
Galileo's crime?:
Brecht,
Seven Plays,
pp. 398–400.

425    
But Brecht was:
Lyon,
Brecht in America,
pp. 176, 178–9, 184–5. Houseman,
Front and Center,
pp. 218ff.

426    
Brecht, as usual:
Abe Burrows,
Honest Abe,
p. 75.

427    
That kind of dialogue:
Lyon,
Brecht in America,
p. 186. Houseman,
Front and Center,
pp. 235–6, 238–9.

428    
Galileo
finally opened:
Houseman,
Front and Center,
p. 237. Cook,
Brecht in Exile,
p. 180. Lyon,
Brecht in America,
p. 312.

429    
On September 19:
Cook,
Brecht in Exile,
p. 183. Gordon Kahn,
Hollywood on Trial,
p. 1. The most detailed account of the Hollywood hearings, but highly partisan.

429    
The process server:
Lyon,
Brecht in America,
p. 315.

429    
Brecht was not much:
Lyon,
Brecht in America,
pp. 317–18. Larry Ceplair and Steven Englund,
The Inquisition in Hollywood,
p. 439. Lester Cole,
Hollywood Red,
p. 265. No one has ever explained the discrepancies between the obviously leaked lists and the list of those who were actually summoned. Both lists are given in Ceplair and Englund, pp. 439–40.

430    
Although the HUAC:
Walter Goodman,
The Committee,
pp. 42, 172–4.

430    
Once the 1946:
New York Times,
Nov. 20, 1970.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
Dec. 1, 1948.

431    
These local controversies:
Ceplair and Englund,
The Inquisition,
p. 256.

432    
Like the new:
Thomas C. Reeves,
The Life and Times of Joe McCarthy,
p. 224. Murray Kempton,
Part of Our Time,
p. 208. Arthur Marx,
Goldwyn,
p. 339.

432    
What, then, was:
Goodman,
The Committee,
p. 196.

432n    
The official estimates:
Kempton,
Part of Our Time,
p. 198.

433    
The second least:
Kahn,
Hollywood on Trial,
pp. 19, 76.

434    
The Un-American:
Goodman,
The Committee,
pp. 14, 199, 184, 191. Eric Bentley, ed.,
Thirty Years of Treason: Excerpts from Hearings Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1938–1968,
pp. 59–73. A highly selective but convenient anthology of the HUAC testimony.

435    
Gerhart Eisler:
Ibid., pp. 57, 59, 84–6, 94–6. Goodman,
The Committee,
p. 191.

437    
J. Parnell Thomas:
Goodman,
The Committee,
p. 203.

437    
Herbert Biberman:
Lester Cole,
Hollywood Red,
p. 266. Nancy Lynn Schwartz,
The Hollywood Writers' Wars,
p. 302. Cook,
Brecht in Exile,
p. 190. Bruce Cook,
Dalton Trumbo,
p. 149. Ceplair and Englund,
The Inquisition,
says ten were Jews (p. 262). Alvah Bessie, who was one of them, says thirteen were Jews (
Inquisition in Eden,
p. 191). Tom Wood,
The Bright Side of Billy Wilder, Primarily,
p. 4.

438    
Biberman had invited:
Ceplair and Englund,
The Inquisition,
p. 263. Stefan Kanfer,
A Journal of the Plague Years,
p. 41.

438    
The lawyers reviewed:
Ceplair and Englund,
The Inquisition,
pp. 264–5.

439    
They finally decided:
Ring Lardner, Jr.,
The Lardners,
p. 320. Victor S. Navasky,
Naming Names,
p. 82 (1981). Ceplair and Englund,
The Inquisition,
p. 269.

439    
In retrospect, this:
Ceplair and Englund,
The Inquisition,
p. 270. Cook,
Trumbo,
p. 187.

440    
There was a:
Ceplair and Englund,
The Inquisition,
p. 265. Cook,
Trumbo,
p. 186. Edward Dmytryk,
It's a Hell of a Life but Not a Bad Living,
p. 95.

440    
The only one:
Dalton Trumbo,
The Time of the Toad,
pp. 137–8. Cook,
Trumbo,
p. 191.

440    
But the nineteen:
Lardner,
The Lardners,
p. 325. Ceplair and Englund,
The Inquisition,
p. 275.

440n    
Or so Dmytryk said:
Bentley,
Thirty Years,
p. 394.

441    
The committee gathered:
Cole,
Hollywood Red,
pp. 269–70.

441    
No less important:
Bentley,
Thirty Years,
p. 192. Cole,
Hollywood Red,
p. 269.

442    
The best technique:
John Keats,
Howard Hughes,
pp. 200ff. Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele,
Empire,
pp. 145ff.

442    
Brewster had reasons:
Keats,
Howard Hughes,
pp. 202–5. Barlett and Steele,
Empire,
p. 145.

444    
To deal with this:
Keats,
Howard Hughes,
pp. 205–8, 209–13, 216–21.

446    
The Spruce Goose:
Barlett and Steele,
Empire,
p. 158.

446    
When the nineteen:
Howard Koch,
As Time Goes By,
p. 167. Kahn,
Hollywood on Trial,
p. 62.

446    
But the producers:
Kahn,
Hollywood on Trial,
pp. 5–6. Kanfer,
Journal of the Plague Years,
p. 41.

447    
The committee had:
Kahn,
Hollywood on Trial,
p. 6. Goodman,
The Committee,
p. 207.
Hearings Regarding the Communist Infiltration of the Motion Picture Industry,
p. 1. The basic text.

447    
No sooner had:
Kahn,
Hollywood on Trial,
p. 63. Norman Zierold,
The Moguls,
p. 235.

448    
There was also:
John Huston,
An Open Book,
p. 147.
HUAC Hearings,
pp. 10–11.

449    
Splendid, splendid, but:
HUAC Hearings,
pp. 12, 15–16, 19, 53, 33–5, 38–9, 44. Kahn,
Hollywood on Trial,
pp. 17, 23, 53.

453    
The next major:
HUAC Hearings,
pp. 70–3. Cole,
Hollywood Red,
p. 272. Kahn,
Hollywood on Trial,
p. 29.

454    
It was clear:
HUAC Hearings,
pp. 71, 75. Kahn,
Hollywood on Trial,
pp. 28, 53.

455    
Mayer was perhaps:
New York Times,
Feb. 11, 1944.
HUAC Hearings,
p. 74. Kahn,
Hollywood on Trial,
p. 31.

456    
For a more critical:
Bentley,
Thirty Years,
p. 111. Nora Sayre,
Running Time,
p. 68.

458    
The rest of:
HUAC Hearings,
pp. 283, 352–6.

459    
And so on:
Kahn,
Hollywood on Trial,
pp. 35–6, 140. Bentley,
Thirty Years,
pp. 122, 139, 144–9.
New York Daily News,
Aug. 26, 1985.

461    
This first week:
Ceplair and Englund,
The Inquisition,
pp. 281–2. Alvah Bessie,
Inquisition in Eden,
p. 222.

462    
Over the bugged:
Lauren Bacall, By Myself,
p. 159.

462    
Huston was dining:
Huston,
An Open Book,
p. 148.

462n    
Congressman Rankin soon:
Kanfer,
Journal of the Plague Years,
p. 73.

463    
The First Amendment:
Lauren Bacall,
p. 160.

463    
Chairman Thomas:
Evelyn Keyes,
Scarlett O'Hara's Younger Sister,
p. 121 (1978).

463    
Lawson, newly:
Ceplair and Englund,
The Inquisition,
pp. 87, 307, 233–5. Schwartz,
Hollywood Writers' Wars,
pp. 59, 311, 152, 235.

464n    
Mocking the famous:
Murray Kempton,
Part of Our Time,
pp. 193–4.

465    
But now, seated:
Bentley,
Thirty Years,
pp. 153–61.

469    
It was rather:
HUAC Hearings,
pp. 306, 315, 307–8.

470    
The kind of man:
Schwartz,
Hollywood Writers' Wars,
p. 319. Kahn,
Hollywood on Trial,
pp. 78–81. Huston,
An Open Book,
p. 150.

471    
Paul Henreid recalled:
Paul Henreid,
Ladies' Man,
pp. 184–5.
Lauren Bacall,
p. 163. Schwartz,
Hollywood Writers' Wars,
p. 281. Ceplair and Englund,
The Inquisition,
p. 291.

472    
Others went home:
Ronald Reagan and Richard C. Hubler,
Where's the Rest of Me?,
p. 229. Doug McClelland,
Hollywood on Ronald Reagan,
pp. 76, 74.

472    
Ann Sheridan liked:
Joe Morella and Edward Z. Epstein,
Jane Wyman,
p. 71. June Allyson,
June Allyson,
p. 96.