A new exhibit explores the anti-Communist witchhunt of the ’40s and ’50s; its curator says the issues it raises feel relevant in 2023.
revisits a dark time in American history. As fears of communist influence in America flourished in the years after World War II, the House Un-American Activities Committee convened hearings of suspected communists in Hollywood in 1947.
“They thought it was such a good fit for us,” Thurston said. “It’s a local story. It certainly makes sense for our Jewish cultural center. “And just a few years later, their activism in anti-fascism and the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League was held against them,” Thurston says. “We wanted to play with that question and expand it.”
“Larry Ceplair, who organized a blacklist exhibition for the Academy in the aughts had this great line about just that,” Thurston says. “It was that McCarthyism predates McCarthy. Some who were blacklisted found work under assumed names – “fronts,” as they were known. The blacklist started to weaken in the late ’50s. The 1960 film “Spartacus” carried the true name of its writer,, thanks in large part to producer and star Kirk Douglas’s influence.
One display includes a 1970 letter from screenwriter Alvah Bessie, an Oscar nominee for the story for the patriotic war movie “Objective Burma,” asking for help finding an agent for a formerly blacklisted writer.
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