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The Hollywood Ten

The Hollywood Ten is a 1950 American 16mm short documentary film. In the film, each member of the Hollywood Ten made a short speech denouncing McCarthyism and the Hollywood blacklisting.

This article is about the 1950 American documentary. For the ten 1947 Hollywood blacklistees, see Hollywood Ten.

The Hollywood Ten

John Berry

John Berry

Colin Chandler

  • January 15, 1950 (1950-01-15) (United States)

15 minutes

United States

English

The film was directed by John Berry. After being named a communist by fellow director and former party member Edward Dmytryk,[1] one of the Hollywood Ten, and by ex-Communist Party member Frank Tuttle,[2] Berry was unable to find work again in Hollywood after 1951, and left for France.[3]


The documentary is available on the DVD releases of Spartacus[4] and Salt of the Earth.

Alvah Bessie

Herbert J. Biberman

Lester Cole

Edward Dmytryk

Ring Lardner Jr.

John Howard Lawson

Albert Maltz

Samuel Ornitz

Adrian Scott

Dalton Trumbo

Release[edit]

The Hollywood Ten was shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City as a part of the "Carte Blanche" series.[5]

Caballero, Raymond. McCarthyism vs. Clinton Jencks. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2019.

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