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3542 COMMUNISM IN HOLLYWOOD MOTION-PICTURE INDUSTRY Mr. Tavenner. Will you give to the committee, please, in a general way, what your educational training has been, formal educational training? Miss Hellman. Yes. I went to public schools in New Orleans, La., and in New York City. I went to New York University and Colum- bia University. Mr. Tavenner. What is your occupation? Miss Hellman. I am a writer; a playwright. Mr. Tavenner. How long have you been a playwright? Miss Hellman. Since about 1933. Mr. Tavenner. Will you tell the committee, please, what some of the principal productions have been, that is, your productions as a playwright ? Miss Hellman. Not a full list, just some? Mr. Tavenner. Some of the most prominent. Miss Hellman. The Children's Hour, The Little Foxes, Watch On The Rhine, Another Part of the Forest, The Autumn Garden, The Searching Wind. Mr. Tavenner. Where have you engaged in the practice of your profession ? Miss Hellman. In the practice of playwriting in New York City, principally. Mr. Tavenner. Well, were you not located in Hollywood for a while ? Miss Hellman. Yes, sir. I have done screen writing, a great deal of it. Mr. Tavenner. Over what period of time ? Miss Hellman. From about the beginning of 1935 through about 1945, and one short job since then. Mr. Tavenner. When was the work that you say was a short job since then; when was that done? Miss Hellman. I think in about 1948 or 1949. Mr. Tavenner. What was the title ? Miss Hellman. It wasn't a title. I went out to California to work for 2 weeks to do a so-called 10-page treatment on Streetcar Named Desire, which the producer, the owner at that point, wished to submit to the Breen office. In other words, I did not do a script, I simply did a suggestion for Mr. Breen. Mr. Tavenner. For what studios have you worked ? Miss Hellman. I have worked mostly for Samuel Goldwyn, for whom I worked off and on for 10 years. I also did a picture for Warner Bros., and The Searching Wind was produced by Mr. Hal Wallace of Paramount Pictures. Mr. Tavenner. What do you consider the major screen credits which you have received for your work in Hollywood ? Miss Hellman. An adaptation of my own play The Children's Hour, which was called These Three, a picture called The Dark Angel. I did the screen play of my own play The Little Foxes. I edited the screen play of my own play Watch on the Rhine. I did the screen play of my own play Searching Wind. I worked for short periods on other pictures. But those are the major ones. Mr. Tavenner. When did you go to Hollywood ? Miss Hellman. I went first in 1930 and worked at Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer as a reader and translator, reader chiefly. I went back in