THE HOLLYWOOD TEN

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THE HOLLYWOOD TENMcCarran-Walter Act

• By John Toro
• Michael Parra

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THE HOLLYWOOD TEN

• In the year 1947 there was a group of Hollywood
  Directors, screenwriters, and producers who
  refused to talk about their involvement with the
  communist party
• This group of individuals were called the
  Hollywood Ten

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• The Men and Women involved in the Hollywood Ten
  were
• Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, Lester Cole,
  Edward Dmytryk, Ring Lardner Jr., John Howard
  Lawson, Albert Maltz, Samuel Ornitz, Adrian Scot
  and Dalton Trumbo

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THE HOLLYWOOD TEN
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• Many people believed that communists were putting
  hidden messages in Hollywood films to persuade
  the viewers.
• Movies such as
• North Star 1943
• Tender Comrade 1943
• Counter Attack 1945
• Crossfire 1947

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• The government group that was in charge of
  investigating the Hollywood Ten and their
  affiliation with Communism was the House of
  Un-American Activates Committee

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• Lawson refusing to answer any questions to the
  Un-American Activities Committee

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• The Hollywood Ten refused to answer any questions
  (pleaded the 5th) about their involvement with
  being communist party to the HUAC
• They believed that the constitution gave them the
  right not to answer any of these questions
• The HUAC and the courts disagreed with this claim
  and each person involved was sent to prison form
  anywhere between 6 to 12 months
• These Hollywood actors were then blacklisted from
  the Hollywood film industry until the 1960s when
  the ban was lifted.

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HOLLYWOOD 10 TRIALS

• The charge was contempt of congress
• Sentence 1 year in prison and 1000 fine
  (Bessie, Cole, Lardner, Lawson, Maltz, Ornitz,
  Scott, and Trumbo) 6 months in prison and 500
  fine for (Biberman, and Dmytryk)

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• E.B. White commented, "Ten men have been
  convicted, not of wrong-doing but of wrong
  thinking that is news in this country and if I
  have not misread my history, it is bad news."

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The McCarran-Walter Act

• In 1952 the act was passed over the presidents
  veto. It maintained the quota system. Also
  removed the ban on the immigration of Asian and
  pacific people.
• Truman vetoed the McCarran-Walter Act because he
  regarded the bill as "un-American" and
  discriminatory.
• It also got rid of gender discrimination, gave
  preference to aliens with special skills and
  supported for more rigorous security screening.

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• It also got rid of gender discrimination, gave
  preference to aliens with special skills and
  supported for more rigorous security screening.
• The law made a lot of conflict, mainly on the
  people that it discriminated in favor of northern
  and western European nations.
• The act also empowered the Department of Justice
  to deport immigrants or naturalized people
  engaging in subversive activates.

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