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Hollywood Party: Stalinist Adventures in the American Movie Industry [Kindle Edition]

Lloyd Billingsley
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Some of the biggest names in show business filled the Motion Picture Academy theater in Beverly Hills for Hollywood Remembers the Blacklist, a lavish production worthy of an Oscar telecast. In song, film, and live performances by stars such as Billy Crystal, Kevin Spacey and John Lithgow, the audience relived a time some fifty years before, when—as the story has always been told—courageous writers and actors stood firm against a witch-hunt and blacklist that wrecked lives and destroyed careers. Left untold that night, and ignored in books and films for more than half a century, was a story not so politically correct but vastly more complex and dramatic.

In Hollywood Party the complete story finally emerges, backdropped by the great upheavals of our time and with all the elements of a thriller—wrenching plot twists, intrigue, betrayal, violence, corruption, misguided passion, and lost idealism. Using long neglected information from public records, the personal files of key players, and frequent revelations from Soviet archives, Lloyd Billingsley uncovers the Communist Party's strategic plan for taking control of the movie industry during its golden age, a plan that came perilously close to success. Billingsley shows how the Party dominated the politics of the movie industry during the 1930s and 1940s, raising vast sums of money from unwitting liberals, and conscripting industry luminaries into supporting Stalinist causes.

In riviting detail, the shameful truth unfolds: Communist writers, actors and directors—wealthy beyond the dreams of most Americans—posture as proletarian wage slaves as they try to influence the content of movies. From the days of the Popular Front through the Nazi-Soviet Pact and beyond World War II, they remain faithful to a regime whose brutality rivaled that of Hitler's Nazis.

Their plans for control of the industry a shambles by the mid-1950s, the Party nonetheless succeeded in shaping the popular memory of those days. By chronicling what has been left on the cutting room floor, from "back story" to aftermath, Hollywood Party changes those perceptions forever.


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  • File Size: 1340 KB
  • Print Length: 330 pages
  • Publisher: Event Horizon Press (August 19, 2014)
  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B00MWCP900
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5.0 out of 5 stars super book December 16, 2014
By L. Rose
This is a must read!! This book helps explain the absence of real film stories by current Hollywood based on history that many do not want to learn about. The book is very well written and researched and s great read!
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