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Hollywood noticed Jules in 1938, changed his name to John Garfield, and launched him on a type-cast screen career of playing himself-the narrow-eyed, rock-hard underdog. In his first movie, one of his lines came easily: "It stinks." He put a jarring realism into his tough-guy roles -in such movies as They Made Me a Criminal, He Ran All the Way, Tortilla Flat. The critics cheered him, and Hollywood's pinkos took him in tow. Soon, Garfield was lending his name to all sorts of Communist-front crusades...
Last year, before the House Un-American Activities Committee, Garfield said: "I have always hated Communism ... I am not, never have been a [Party] member." The committee was not entirely convinced, but he was already a sick man who had suffered a heart attack and been warned to take it easy...
Like a Meteor. After starring in a Manhattan revival of Golden Boy (TIME, March 24), Garfield recently decided to come completely clean. He wrote out a statement of how Hollywood's Communists had fooled him. In a brooding mood, he quarreled with his wife, left her and his two children and moved into a hotel...
...report, forced open the door of a Gramercy Park apartment. Inside stood a blonde exactress who sobbed that her dinner companion of the night before had complained of feeling "awful" and had come to her place to rest. Behind her in the bedroom lay the body of John Garfield. After 39 years, the tough guy's heart had given...
...them women, waited in line to file past his oaken bier. Greying Playwright Odets, himself a repentant ex-Communist, came in, looked down, turned away to bury his face in his hands. Out in the street two men began slugging each other; one of them, someone reported, had called Garfield a Communist. But Jules Garfinkle was past caring. "He came like a meteor." said Rabbi Louis Newman at the Reformed Hebrew service, "and like a meteor he departed...