Papers, 1932-1985.

Traube, Shepard, 1907-1983

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Shepard Traube (1907-1983) was a theatrical producer and writer. Mr. Traube's theatrical career included producing and directing "Angel Street," one of Broadway's longest running plays, in the early 1940's. In 1931 he directed and produced "No More Frontiers" for Broadway. But his first productions to win crtical acclaim were "Precedent" at the Provincetown Theater in 1932 and a Broadway entry, "A Thousand Summers," the same year, which was co-produced with Arch Selwyn and starred Jane Cowl, ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities (1934-1975)

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From 1934 to 1937 The U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities began as the Special Committee on Un-American Activities and was also known as the McCormack-Dickstein Committee. The Dies Committee, was created on May 26, 1938, with the approval of House Resolution 282, which authorized the Speaker of the House to appoint a special committee of seven members to investigate un-American activities in the United States, domestic diffusion of propaganda, and all other questions relating thereto...

Sinatra, Frank

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The son of italian immigrants, Frank Sinatra began singing and doing impersonations in school which led to his future career as singer with the Hoboken Four in 1935. The quartet broke up in 1936 and Frank started working his way through the music industry until he finally got his big break in 1940. He would become one of Hollywood's leading men for the next two decades and a constant music hall draw after that until very close to the day he died in 1998. (Adapted from the Official Sinatra Family...

Kenney, Robert Walker, 1901- .

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Westcott, Glenway, 1901- .

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Theatre Union.

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Biberman, H. J. (Herbert J.)

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Kahn, Albert Eugene, 1912-1979

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Born in London, Kahn is known particularly as an author of political exposés. He is also a performing arts photographer. His book, JOYS AND SORROWS, REFLECTIONS BY PABLO CASALS (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970) contains some of his photographs in this collection. He is currently living in Glen Ellen, California. From the description of Photographs of Pablo Casals, ca. 1960-68. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122540876 Photographer, social activist, and author...

Fast, Howard, 1914-2003

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Popular and prolific novelist Howard Fast was born in New York City. His parents were poor immigrants, and he worked odd jobs as a youth, crediting his love of reading to a job as a page at the New York Public Library. He published his first novel at eighteen, and found early success writing adventures set in America's past. He worked for the Office of War Information during World War II, writing for the radio program Voice of America. A Communist from about 1944-1956, Fast appeared before the H...

Bessie, Alvah Cecil, 1904-1985

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Alvah Bessie (1904-1985) was an author and screenwriter who fought with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain, and was later blacklisted as one of the "Hollywood Ten" cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions at the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) hearings on the influence of the Communist Party in the motion-picture industry. From the description of Papers, 1937-1991 (bulk 1936-1939, 1967-1985). (New York University). WorldCat record id: 476413154 ...

Cole, Lester, 1904-1985

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Cole (1904-1985) was a screenwriter who did most of his writing in the 1930s and 1940s. He was among the "Hollywood Ten," the ten movie directors and writers who in 1947 refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee for suspected Communist activities. Cole was imprisoned for contempt of Congress and served a one year prison term. The imprisonment for the most part ended his career, although he did write a few more screenplays including "Born Free" in 1965 using the pseudon...

Meiklejohn, Alexander, 1872-1964

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Alexander Meiklejohn was born in England in 1872, and brought to the United States in 1880 at the age of eight. He was educated in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and graduated from Brown University in 1893. He took his M.A. at Brown and in 1897, received his doctorate in philosophy from Cornell University. He taught philosophy and metaphysics at Brown and was dean from 1901 to 1912. He became president of Amherst College in 1912 and served until 1924. After Amherst he went to the University of Wiscons...

McWilliams, Carey, 1905-1980

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Carey McWilliams was born December 13, 1905 in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. He completed his Juris Doctorate from the University of Southern California in 1927. From 1927-1938, McWilliams was an attorney at the law firm Black, Hammack in Los Angeles. In 1938, he was appointed as Chief of the Division of Immigration and Housing of the State of California, a position he kept until 1942. During the period from 1945-1955, he began his long association with The Nation, becoming successively contribut...

Blankfort, Michael, 1907-1982

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Born in 1907 in New York, Michael Blankfort was a writer, lyricist, director, and producer. He wrote a number of plays and musicals early in his career beginning with Merry-Go-Round in 1932; Battle Hymn was his sixth work, produced by the Federal Theatre Project of the WPA. In the 1940s he moved into film and then television, penning Westerns, dramas and adventure tales, and in 1950 he won the Writer's Guild of America's award for Best Written Western for Broken Arrow . He also wrot...

Sklar, George, 1908-1988

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Playwright. From the description of Reminiscences of George Sklar : oral history, 1982. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122481303 George Sklar, playwright. From the description of Brown pelican : typescript, 1972. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122627064 From the description of And people all around : typescript, 1966, August. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 144652456 ...

Capra, Frank Russell, 1897-1991

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Frank Russell Capra (born Francesco Rosario Capra; May 18, 1897 – September 3, 1991) was an Italian-American film director, producer and writer who became the creative force behind some of the major award-winning films of the 1930s and 1940s. Born in Italy and raised in Los Angeles from the age of five, his rags-to-riches story has led film historians such as Ian Freer to consider him the "American Dream personified." Capra became one of America's most influential directors during the 1930s, ...

Larkin, Margaret, 1899-1967

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Maltz, Albert, 1908-1985

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Author; interviewee d. 1985. From the description of Reminiscences of Albert Maltz : oral history, 1982. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122597732 Albert Maltz (1908-1985) was a movie screenwriter, playwright, and novelist during the twentieth century. Born in Brooklyn, New York and educated at Columbia University and Yale University, Maltz started his show business career as a playwright and wrote several plays during the 1930s, including ...

Ross, Frank.

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Trumbo, Dalton, 1905-1976

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James Dalton Trumbo was born Dec. 9, 1905, in Montrose, CO; attended Univ. of Colorado, UCLA, and USC; worked as a newpaper reporter and editor; started screenwriting in 1935; became one of the Hollywood Ten and was blacklisted by the motion picture industry (1947); served a 10-month jail sentence for contempt of Congress when he refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) for his alleged membership in the Communist Party; while serving his sentence at the Federal...

Stern, Philip Van Doren, 1900-1984

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Philip Van Doren Stern (1900-1984) was a historian, social critic, editor and author, best known for the short story which became the source for the 1946 film IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE. Philip Van Doren Stern (1900-1984) was a historian, social critic, editor and author, best known for the short story which became the source for the 1946 film IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE. Philip Van Doren Stern was born in Wyalusing, Pennsylvania, in 1900, grew up in Brooklyn, New Yo...

Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989

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Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989), first poet laureate of the United States, was a poet, writer of fiction, and co-author with Cleanth Brooks of influential textbooks on literature. He won Pulitzer Prizes for All the King's Men (1946) and for volumes of poetry, Promises (1958) and Now and Then (1979). From the description of Robert Penn Warren papers, 1906-1989. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702132948 Robert Penn Warren served on the faculty of Louisiana State University, Dept...

Clapper, Raymond, 1892-1944

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Raymond Clapper was married to Olive Ewing up until his death in 1944. From the description of Clapper, Raymond, 1892-1944 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10570484 Journalist. From the description of Raymond Clapper papers, 1908-1962 (bulk 1913-1944). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81491704 Biographical Note 1892, May 30 B...

Lavery, Emmett, 1902- .

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Scott, Adrian, 1912-1973

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Scott (1911-1972) was a screenwriter and motion picture producer with MGM and RKO from 1930-1947. In 1947 he was called before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, where he refused to answer the Committee's question if he was a member of the Communist Party. Scott was jailed for one year for contempt of Congress and also fired by RKO. He was blacklisted as a member of the "Hollywood Ten," movie directors and writers who refused to testify. In 1957 Scott went to...

Lardner, Ring, 1915-2000

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