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Hollywood Party
Category: History: U.S.: 20th Century
Author: Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley
Copyright/published Year: 1998 by Prima Publishing
ISBN: 0761513760
Binding: Hardcover
In the fall of 1997 some of the biggest names in show business
filled the Motion Picture Academy theater in Beverly Hills for
Hollywood Remembers the Blacklist, a lavish production worthy of
an Oscar telecast. In song, film, and live performances by stars
such as Billy Crystal, Kevin Spacey, and John Lithgow, the
audience relived a time some fifty years before, when, as the
story has always been told, courageous writers and actors stood
firm against a witch-hunt and blacklist that wrecked lives and
destroyed careers. Left untold that night, and ignored in books
and films for more than half a century, was a story not so
politically correct but vastly more complex and dramatic.
In Hollywood Party the complete story finally emerges,
backdropped by the great upheavals of our time and with all the
elements of a thriller-wrenching plot twists, intrigue, betrayal,
violence, corruption, misguided passion, and lost idealism. Using
long neglected information from public records, the personal
files of key players, and recent revelations from Soviet
archives, Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley uncovers the Communist
Party's strategic plan for taking control of the movie industry
during its golden age, a plan that came perilously close to
success. He shows how the Party dominated the politics of the
movie industry during the 1930s and 1940s, raising vast sums of
money from unwitting liberals and conscripting industry
luminaries into supporting Stalinist causes.
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