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The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) was formed by the U.S. House of Representatives in 1934 to investigate domestic radicals including Nazis, Communists and members of the Ku Klux ...
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Abraham Polonsky was a novelist, screenwriter, and director. He served with the Office of Strategic Services (the predecessor to the CIA) during World War II before beginning his filmmaking career ...
updated 2010-10-13 16:59:08
Growing up in Long Island, Whittaker Chambers attended Columbia University. His mentor was English professor Mark Van Doren. Classmates included Meyer Schapiro, Lionel Trilling, Herbert Solow, Clifton Fadiman, and Louis ...
updated 2010-07-18 02:31:09
Arthur Miller was a world renowned, award-winning author who wrote some of the most famous American plays of all time, in addition to screenplays and books. Along with Tennessee Williams ...
updated 2010-07-16 22:03:22
A pioneer in the field of animation, Walt Disney was an animator, film director, screenwriter and film producer. The founder of The Walt Disney Company, Walt Disney created of the ...
updated 2012-05-12 22:41:19
Elia Kazan was born in 1909 as Elias Kazanjoglous in the city that would become Istanbul, Turkey. He was a Hollywood film director, often directing films with complex male characters ...
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