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Alvah Cecil Bessie (June 4, 1904 – July 21, 1985) was an American novelist, journalist and screenwriter who was blacklisted by the movie studios for being one of the Hollywood Ten who refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Jul 24, 1985 · Alvah Bessie, a writer whose politics took him to Spain to fight in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade during the Spanish Civil War and years later to Washington, where he refused to tell the House...
Dec 16, 2009 · The 10 individuals who defied HUAC were Alvah Bessie (c. 1904-85), Herbert Biberman (1900-71), Lester Cole (c. 1904-85), Edward Dmytryk (1908-99), Ring Lardner Jr. (1915-2000), John Howard...
Alvah Bessie (1904-1985) was a writer and actor who worked on films such as Objective, Burma! and Northern Pursuit. He was blacklisted during the McCarthy era and wrote a book about his experiences, Inquisition in Eden.
- Writer, Actor
- June 4, 1904
- Alvah Bessie
- July 21, 1985
Jul 24, 1985 · Alvah Bessie, an author and screenwriter and one of the ''Hollywood 10'' held in contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions during hearings in 1947 into alleged Communist influence in...
Nov 16, 2015 · Three years later, the HUAC committee handed him the shortest sentence of the Hollywood Ten — six months in the minimum-security Texarkana, Texas, prison that housed fellow defendant Alvah Bessie.
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The 10 were Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, Lester Cole, Edward Dmytryk, Ring Lardner, Jr., John Howard Lawson, Albert Maltz, Samuel Ornitz, Adrian Scott, and Dalton Trumbo. The group originally included the German writer Bertolt Brecht , but Brecht fled the country on the day following his inquest, and the remaining 10 were voted in contempt ...
