Category: History: U.S.: 20th Century

Copyright/published Year: 1998 by Prima Publishing

ISBN: 0761513760

Binding: Hardcover

In the fall of 1997 some of the biggest names in show business ì filled the Motion Picture Academy theater in Beverly Hills for ì Hollywood Remembers the Blacklist, a lavish production worthy of ì an Oscar telecast. In song, film, and live performances by stars ì such as Billy Crystal, Kevin Spacey, and John Lithgow, the ì audience relived a time some fifty years before, when, as the ì story has always been told, courageous writers and actors stood ì firm against a witch-hunt and blacklist that wrecked lives and ì destroyed careers. Left untold that night, and ignored in books ì and films for more than half a century, was a story not so ì politically correct but vastly more complex and dramatic.

In Hollywood Party the complete story finally emerges, ì backdropped by the great upheavals of our time and with all the ì elements of a thriller-wrenching plot twists, intrigue, betrayal, ì violence, corruption, misguided passion, and lost idealism. Using ì long neglected information from public records, the personal ì files of key players, and recent revelations from Soviet ì archives, Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley uncovers the Communist ì Party's strategic plan for taking control of the movie industry ì during its golden age, a plan that came perilously close to ì success. He shows how the Party dominated the politics of the ì movie industry during the 1930s and 1940s, raising vast sums of ì money from unwitting liberals and conscripting industry ì luminaries into supporting Stalinist causes.

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