Hollywood Divided: The 1950 Screen Directors Guild Meeting and the Impact of the Blacklist

On October 22, 1950, the Screen Directors Guild (SDG) gathered for a meeting at the opulent Beverly Hills Hotel. Among the group's leaders were some of the most powerful men in Hollywood--John Ford, Cecil B. DeMille, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, John Huston, Frank Capra, William Wyler, and Rouben Mamoulian--and the issue on the table was nothing less than a vote to dismiss Mankiewicz as the guild's president after he opposed an anticommunist loyalty oath that could have expande

Author: Kevin Brianton
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 11/15/2016
Pages: 174
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.40w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780813168920

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/12/2016

About the Author

Kevin Brianton is a lecturer in strategic communication at La Trobe University.

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