Hearings regarding the communist infiltration of the motion picture industry. Hearings before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, first session. Public law 601 (section 121, subsection Q (1947)

COMMUNISM IN MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY 371 marshal, for Robert E. Clark, United States marshal, Los Angeles^ Calif.^^ 1 should also like to place into the record a telegram which the chairman sent to Mr. Maltz which reads as follows : In response to the subpeiia served upon you summoning you to appear before the Committee on Un-American Activities, United States House of Representatives, in Washington, D. C, on October 23, you are hereby directed to appear on. October 28 instead of October 23, at the hour of 10:30 a. m., Room 226, Old House Office Building. J. Parnet-l Thomas. Chairman. The Chairman. Without objection, so ordered. Mr. Stripling. Now, Mr. Chairman, we have here a memorandum of the numerous affiliations of Albert Maltz, which is single spaced and appears on 15 pages. What is the pleasure of the committee regarding the reading of this memorandum? I might say, Mr. Chairman, it lists 58 different Communist affiliations of the individual. The Chairman. How many? Mr. Stripling. Fifty-eight. The Chairman. Mr. Stripling, start reading. Mr. Stripling. Information from the files of the Committee on Un-American Activities, United States House of Representatives, on the Communist Affiliations of Albert Maltz (reading) : Albert Maltz, novelist, playwright, and screen writer, was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., on October 8, 1908, according to Who's Who for 1946-^7. The International Motion Picture Almanac states that Albert Maltz wrote the screen play for the following films : This Gun For Hire (Paramount 1942) ; Destination Tokyo (Warner Bros., 1943) : The Man in Half Moon Street (Paramount, 1944) ; Pride of the Marines (Warner Bros., 1945) — Mr. Chairman, I suppose we could suspend with the reading of the films. Mr. McDowell; Repeat that again. Mr. Stripling. I would like to suspend with a further reading of the scripts which he has written. Mr. McDowell. All right, without objection, they are placed in the record. (The films referred to are as follows :) Cloak and Dagger (Warner Bros., 1946) and Moscow Strikes Back (Republic, 1942), a documentary film. Who's Who for 1946-47 reflects that Albert Maltz. also wrote the screen play for Deep Valley. 1944. The Los Angeles Daily News for May 1.5, 1945, reported that All)ert Maltz was the author of the screen play for the film The Hou.se I Live In (RKO). The Hollywood Reporter for December 1, 1944, announced that screen directors Robert Rossen and Lewis Milestone (whose records are attached) had recently purchased screen rights to The Cross and the Arrow, a novel written by Albert Maltz, and that the directors would develop the novel into a motion picture. Tl)e novel was highly praised by People's World, official west coast Communist oi'gan, and Communist book clubs. Mr. Stripling. The files, records, and publications of the House Committee on Un-American Activities reveal the following information regarding the pro-Communist activities of Albert Maltz (reading) : 1. Albert Maltz has not to our knowledge publicly admitted membership in the Communist Party. However, complete loyalty to the Communist Party has ^ See appendix, p. .540, for exhibit 72.