Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Exiled from Hollywood
Tonight, the UCLA Film and Television Archive kicks-off a screening series called “ Hollywood Exiles in Europe ” with the 1950 film “Christ in Concrete.” Director Edward Dmytryk made “Christ in Concrete” in England because he couldn’t make it in Hollywood. He’d refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readTonight, the UCLA Film and Television Archive kicks-off a screening series called “Hollywood Exiles in Europe” with the 1950 film “Christ in Concrete.” Director Edward Dmytryk made “Christ in Concrete” in England because he couldn’t make it in Hollywood. He’d refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee. It’s just one of almost 100 European films directed by, written by, and starring blacklisted Americans in exile.
photo: Edward Dmytryk testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee
photo: "Christ in Concrete," made in London by blacklisted director Edward Dmytryk, written by blacklisted screenwriter Ben Barzman and starring blacklisted actor Sam Wanamaker.
Madeleine Brand
Host, 'Press Play'
Andrew Walsh
Too Beautiful to Live
Christian Bordal
Managing Producer, Greater LA
Matt Holzman
Producer, 'The Document'
Norma Barzman
was a blacklisted screenwriter who fled to Paris with her writer husband, Ben.
Rebecca Prime
A professor at Hood University and the author of “Hollywood Exiles in Europe: The Blacklist and Cold War Film Culture.”