The New York Historical prepares to examine the campaign against Communism that once shook Hollywood and beyond.

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Even years later, when Kazan received an honorary Oscar in 1999, the controversy surrounding his cooperation with HUAC evoked Hellman’s defiant legacy.

1952 was also when Elia Kazan was called upon as a witness by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) to identify communists from his days with The Group, a theatre troupe that in its ...

Sooner or later, everyone from Lucille Ball and Gary Cooper to Sterling Hayden and Elia Kazan testified. HUAC exponentially expanded Billy’s blacklist.

Kazan and Miller’s relationship — and their collaboration on The Hook — would break down following Kazan’s HUAC testimony, and Miller would rework The Hook into his play A View from the ...

Once the angry academic playwright, David Edgar has mellowed with age, though the fire of injustice still glows brightly. This is a distillation of the McCarthy Hearings that gripped America in ...

Kazan had previously directed Death of a Salesman to great acclaim and, as Here in America posits, the pair had been like “brothers”. After Kazan’s testimony, they didn’t speak for 10 years. It’s ...

Both turned to communism as an answer to the failures of capitalism, though Miller never joined the party. They fell out when Kazan decided to name names to Senator Joseph McCartney and his House ...

On the Waterfront at 70: An undeniable masterpiece – but should we forgive its director Elia Kazan? The classic Marlon Brando film swept the Oscars in 1955 and is about to be re-released in ...

Kazan identified eight Communists in the film industry, in turn contributing to the infamous "Hollywood blacklist," which saw named Communists denied work throughout Hollywood.