Communist infiltration of Hollywood motion-picture industry : hearing before the Committee on Un-American activities, House of Representatives, Eighty-second Congress, first session (1951)

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1848 COMMUNISM IN MOTION-PICTURE INDUSTRY Mr. Tunberg. F. Hugh Herbert, Herbert H-e-r-b-e-r-t; George Seaton, S-e-a-t-o-n; Dwight Taylor, T-a-y-1-o-r; Arthur Sheekman, S-h-e-e-k-m-a-n; Harry Tugend, T-u-g-e-n-d; Robert Ardrey, A-r-d- r-e-y; Art Arthur, A-r-t-h-u-r; Stephen Morehouse Avery, deceased, A-v-e-r-y; Claude Binyon. B-i-n-y-o-n; Frank Cavett, C-a-v-e-t-t; Olive Cooper, C-o-o-p-e-r; Valentine Davies, D-a-v-i Mr. Tavenner. Not quite so rapidly. Mr. Tunberg. Valentine Davies was the last thing, D-a-v-i-e-s. Mr. Tavenner. What was the name of the individual before Mr. Davies ? Mr. Tunberg. Olive Cooper, C-o-o-p-e-r. After Mr. Davies, Rich- ard English, E-n-g-1-i-s-h; Everett Freeman, F-r-e-e-m-a-n; Paul Gangelin, G-a-n-g-e-1-i-n; Dorothy Bennett Hannah, H-a-n-n-a-h; Milton Krims, K-r-i-m-s; Ernest Pascal, P-a-s-c-a-1; Leonard Spiegel- gass, S-p-i-e-g-e-1-g-a-s-s; Brenda Weisberg, W-e-i-s-b-e-r-g; Robert Arthur, A-r-t-h-u-r; Graham Baker, B-a-k-e-r; Earl Baldwin, B-a-1-d-w-i-n; Sy Bartlett, B-a-r-t-1-e-t-t.; D. D. Beauehamp, B-e-a-u- c-h-a-m-p; Edmund Beloin, B-e-1-o-i-n; Charles Bennett, B-e-n- n-e-t-t; Charles Brackett, B-r-a-c-k-e-t-t; Houston Branch, B-r-a-n-c-h; George Bricker, B-r-i-c-k-e-r; Oscar Brodney, B-r-o-d- n-e-y; Adele Buffington, B-u-f-f-i-n-g-t-o-n; Betty Burbridge, B-u-r- b-r-i-d-g-e; John K. Butler, B-u-t-1-e-r; James M. Cain, C-a-i-n; Roy Chanslor, C-h-a-n-s-1-o-r; Lewis Foster, F-o-s-t-e-r. Mr. Tavenner. How do you spell the first name ? Mr. Tunberg. L-e-w-i-s Foster. Frederick Frank, F-r-a-n-k; Bert Granet, G-r-a-n-e-t; Kenneth Garnet, G-a-m-e-t; Howard J. Green, G-r-e-e-n; Norman Hall, H-a-1-1; Edmund Hartmann, E-d-m-u-n-cl H-a-r-t-m-a-n-n; Agnes Johnson, J-o-h-n-s-o-n; Sylvia Fine Kaye, K-a-y-e; John Larkin, L-a-r-k-i-n; Jesse Lasky, Jr., L-a-s-k-y; Em- met La very, L-a-v-e-r-y; Alan LeMay, L-e-M-a-y; Stephen Long- street, L-o-n-g-s-t-r-e-e-t; Barre Lyndon, B-a-r-r-e, Lyndon L-y-n- d-o-n; Mary McCall, M-c-C-a-1-1; Elizabeth Meehan, M-e-e-h-a-n; Winston Miller, M-i-1-l-e-r; Peter Milne, M-i-1-n-e; Dudley Nichols, N-i-c-h-o-l-s; Walter Reilly, R-e-i-1-l-y; Allen Rivkin, R-i-v-k-i-n; Bradford Ropes, R-o-p-e-s; Leo Rosten, R-o-s-t-e-n; Barney Sarecky, S-a-r-e-c-k-y; Tom Seller, S-e-1-l-e-r; Irving Stone, S-t-o-n-e; Wanda Tuchock, W-a-n-d-a, Tuchock T-u-c-h-o-c-k; John Twist, T-w-i-s-t; M. Coates Webster, W-e-b-s-t-er, M. C-o-a-t-e-s; Clarence U. Young, Y-o-u-n-g. That is not the complete list, but it is a rather full one. Mr. Tavenner. Mr. Tunberg, in the course of the conduct of the business of your guild, are you called upon, or is the guild called upon by the Defense Department to furnish personnel to aid in de- fense projects of one kind or another? Mr. Tunberg. Yes, sir. We are called on by the Defense Depart- ment and by the State Department to furnish writers for documentary films and for Government films and for training films. Mr. Tavenner. To furnish writers for documentary films? Mr. Tunberg. Yes, sir. Mr. Tavenner. Does that include also training films ? Mr. Tunberg. Yes; it has in the past. Mr. Tavenner. Just what do you mean by training films?