Word: dmytryk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were a few encouraging signs. A small independent producer had just turned out a promising feature for $500,000. Called Obsession, it had been brought in under its budget by Director Edward Dmytryk, one of Hollywood's "unfriendly ten." The bigger producers, including Rank, had been making economies too, but insiders still thought that production costs were much too high. The titans were studying the lesson already learned (if not always practiced) by Hollywood: the only way out of the slump was to make better pictures for less money...
Married. Edward Dmytryk, 39, ace Hollywood director (Crossfire) cited (with nine others) for contempt of Congress for refusing to tell whether he was a Communist; and Jean Porter, 24, player in B pictures; each for the second time; in Ellicott City...
...Edward Dmytryk...
...Pictures. Two Hollywood pictures that made most lists of the year's best ten-Director Edward Dmytryk's Crossfire (RKO Radio) and Elia Kazan's Gentleman's Agreement (20th Century-Fox)-were also the first forthright attacks on anti-Semitism by the movies, which, in Groucho Marx's phrase, had previously dared to criticize only the man-eating shark. The New York Film Critics voted Gentleman's Agreement the year's best film (9 to 7 over Britain's Great Expectations...
...noted evidence of Communist allegiance (including photostats identified as their Communist Party membership cards) ; started the contempt proceedings rolling through the full committee to Speaker Joe Martin. By the third day they had cited eight: Writers John Howard Lawson, Alvah Bessie, Albert Maltz, Dalton Trumbo, Samuel Ornitz, Director Edward Dmytryk, Producer Adrian Scott, Writer-Director Herbert Biberman...