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The Gilding Of the Blacklisted; A Son of the Hollywood Ten Revisits a Heroic Legacy

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19971102
Author:James Lardner

Hollywood, which knows how to make a fuss, made one last week over the 50th anniversary of the House Un-American Activities Committee's (HUAC) attempt to examine "subversion" in the movies, and over my father, Ring Lardner Jr., and nine other members of the "Hollywood Ten" who impolitely refused to say whether they were or ever had been communists, and who else was or ever had been.

When my father's turn came, he was 32 years old. He already had an Oscar to his credit (for co-writing the Spencer Tracy/Katharine Hepburn comedy "Woman of the Year") and a fat contract with Twentieth ...

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