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COMMUNISM IN HOLLYWOOD MOTION-PICTURE INDUSTRY 3513 Mr. Wheeler called me a day later and said that the committee would like to withdraw the subpena because of my condition, and I resisted this quite strongly. For one thing, I had been waiting for a subpena for a long, long time and I wanted to get it over with, and I was up to here. I felt all right, but he had much better judgment, I found out. My doctor urged me very strongly to let him withdraw it for the time being, and at the end of 2 or 3 days of arguing with my husband and Dr. So-and-So, Mr. Wheeler promised me that this was not considered an evasion that I was using. I want to say that his judgment was a lot better than mine. It turned out to be a miserable pregnancy, and it ended very well. I don't think it would have if I had testified, and I am very, very grate- ful to Mr. Wheeler and the committee for being so considerate on something so important to me. But here I am, and this time I asked of my own accord. I was not notified that I would be subpenaed. Mr. Tavenner. Then you are appearing here today at your own request and voluntarily.- Miss Lennart. Yes, sir. Mr. Tavenner. Well, I assume, in your appearance here, you desire to tell the committee about your own connection with the Communist Party, and all you know about its operations, or otherwise you would not have come. Miss Lennart. Exactly. I feel the time has come when I want to get it straightened out, as to exactly what my past associations have been and why I have repudiated them. Mr. Tavenner. Well, before you so testify for the committee, let me ask you, what is your profession ? Miss Lennart. I am a screen writer. Mr. Tavenner. A screen writer. How long have you been a screen writer ? Miss Lennart. Since 1941, about 11 years, roughly I guess. Mr. Tavenner. During that period of time what type of screen writing have you engaged in ? Miss Lennart. Well, I usually write right from the beginning to the end of the picture, the story and screen play. Most of my credits are of that type. They are mostly very light and frothy pictures, largely musicals. Mr. Tavenner. Will you give us the names, please, of the principal screen credits which you have received for plays which have been produced. Miss Lennart. Yes. Lost Angel, Anchors Aweigh, Stranger in Town, Hardy Affair, Hardy in Mexico, Kissing Bandit, East Side- West Side, A Life of Her Own. I think those are the released pictures. Mr. Tavenner. For what producers have you worked ? Miss Lennart. Producers, or studios ? Mr. Tavenner. Studios, I meant to say. Miss Lennart. I have been under contract only to one studio since 1941, and that is Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. I have been loaned out on one or two occasions to RKO, and Twentieth Century Fox. But my entire working life has been spent at MGM. Mr. Tavenner. When did you first go to Hollywood ? Miss Lennart. I went out in 1937. I was in the very beginning of my twenties and I wanted to be a director in pictures. I hoped to start 21546—52—pt. 8 5