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...Peter share an apartment in New York after their discharge from the Army in 1945. They drink too much, stage noisy parties and most of the women they know wear round heels. Only Ted is a combat veteran. Lew, a public relations officer, and Peter, a radio scripter, fought the war with typewriters (Miller was a Yank editor). Ted, an unstable and unhappy rich kid, commits suicide; Lew gets a dose of anti-Semitism from the girl he loves and goes home to California; Peter can get any woman into bed but the one he cares for, hates...
...visual. (Most wicked shot: the union hall, dominated by a gigantic photograph of The Leader, beneath which the platform officials, wearing their hats, recall the hardest of the old gangster pictures.) The Senator is a collaboration by a trio of expert funmakers: Producer Nunnally Johnson, Director George Kaufman and Scripter Charles MacArthur. There is also an unusually sassy musical score by Daniele Amfitheatrof...
...member of the Communist Party?" In the witnesses' plan, the second question was the signal for a defiant outburst over the Bill of Rights. Disappointed spectators waiting outside the caucus room could hear the mingled shouts of the witnesses and the thumping of Chairman Thomas' gavel. Cried Scripter Alvah Bessie: "General Eisenhower has refused to reveal his political party affiliation and what's good enough for General Eisenhower is good enough...
Like the first day's witnesses, Cinemactor Menjou was perfectly willing to name names (TIME, Oct. 27) of those who were Hollywood's Reds. He repeated the names of Director John Cromwell and Scripter John Howard Lawson, though he could not be sure that they actually carried party cards. Twirling his mustache, sipping artfully from a glass of water, mugging for the camera men, he admitted that Communism in Hollywood was on the decline, mainly because so many people were becoming aware of its dangers. But there were still Reds aplenty, and he had a surefire, if somewhat...
...aimed one blast straight at Scripter Lawson, called him "an out & out Communist." The Screen Writers' Guild, he said, is "under complete Communist domination," and so is the Story Analysts' Guild. For that matter, 44 of 100 plays produced on Broadway since 1936 "have contained material to further the Communist line...