"RED STARS IN HOLLYWOOD" 1948 ANTI-COMMUNIST FOLDER NAMING 100 BIG NAMES AS "ENEMIES OF AMERICA."
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Auction #202 - Part I
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Item Description
3.5x6.25" folder opens to 6.25x13" printed on both sides. Folder reprints speech by Myron Fagan (writer,producer and director for film and theater) made on the stage of the El Patio Theater April 12, 1948 for the reopening night performance of an anti-Communist play titled "Thieves Paradise." The play implies FDR, Stalin and others wanted to create the United Nations for a Communist front leading to one world government. The play was widely protested in New York and then in Hollywood. Fagan's mid 1940s one man crusade against his claimed "Red Conspiracy In Hollywood" culminated in the 1947 Congressional Hearings with the famous "Hollywood Ten" cited for Comtempt of Congress and with more than 300 famous stars, writers and directors from Hollywood, radio and TV investigated, many of whom were black listed as Communist. The main feature of this tract against the Communist "rats" is the list of 100 names who Fagan claimed were outright "Reds" with membership cards, members of Red Front Organizations, or fellow travelers all of whom he declares are "Friends of Russia and enemies of America." Included are Lauren Bacall, Alvah Bessie, Humphrey Bogart, Eddie Cantor, Charlie Chaplin, Henry Fonda, Ben Hecht, Audrey Hepburn, Moss Hart, John Huston, Gene Kelly, Myrna Loy, Danny Kaye, Peter Lorre, Groucho Marx, Larry Parks, Gregory Peck, Frank Sinatra, Dalton Trumbo, Orson Wells, Jane Wyatt, Billy Wilder. Small splits about .5" long at ends of first fold. Faint .5x2" stains on back cover but very minor. Fine and historic. First we've seen.
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