Posted on 05/31/2005 10:40:05 AM PDT by EveningStar
Red Star Over Hollywood: The Film Colony's Long Romance With The Left
by Ronald Radosh, Allis Radosh
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Until now, Hollywood's political history has been dominated by a steady stream of films and memoirs decrying the "nightmare" of the Red Scare and how it victimized political innocents. But in RED STAR OVER HOLLYWOOD, Ronald and Allis Radosh tell for the first time the "backstory" behind this myth.
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Most of the artists who had love affairs with Marxism in the first half of the 20th century generally came to their sense later on. (John Dos Passos, Richard Wright...) Most of them would be moderate liberals today if not conservatives.
That would be Bert Schneider, who was behind "Hearts and Minds."
He was also one of the creators of The Monkees and Easy Rider. Collaborated with Jack Nicholson quite a bit at the height of the Counterculture. And to be fair was on the far left fringe of the Hollywood Left along with Haskell Wexler and such others.
Schneider and Nicholson cowrote "Head", only memorable because the Monkees get KILLED OFF at the beginning.
David Horowitz is enemy #1 to american socialists.. not 2,3, or 4..
They would probably kill him if it wouldn't advertise his books.. which do more harm to american socialism.. as it WOULD.. As a third generation american communist its amazing he saw the light.. "Red Diaper" babys tend to be brain washed from their youth..
The redhead was red? Would that make Desi Arnez a Castro mole?
If Desi was a communist he was one hell of a business man.
Comrade, I'm home!
There was a recent story about Desi, in which it was detailed that he secretly funded efforts to overthrow Castro.
Then again, Armand Hammer was close friends with Nancy Reagan. No wonder Nancy loved the color "red."
It was long ago revealed that she had attended some meeting, while an uninformed teen, at the request of a close relative. She never became a communist.
I never thought Desi was a commie. I don't think "Red" Skelton was either. :D
Desi Arnaz Secretly Funded Anti-Castro Groups
Newsmax ^ | Sunday, May. 09, 2004
Posted on 05/09/2004 12:28:20 PM CDT by nickcarraway
Desi Arnaz of "I Love Lucy" fame and fortune helped finance the freedom of hundreds of Bay of Pigs fighters captured in 1961 by Cuban government forces, veterans say.
A belated thank you to the late entertainer has now happened, 18 years after he died.
This past Friday, according to a Miami Herald report, surviving vets of the Bay of Pigs invasion presented a posthumous award to daughter Lucie Arnaz for his "moral support and generosity."
That generosity was legend among Bay of Pigs veterans.
"He always supported the Cuban cause," said Felix Rodriguez Mendigutia, president of Bay of Pigs Veterans Association. "Anything against Fidel Castro, he supported."
In accepting the award, Lucie Arnaz said her father would have felt honored. She revealed that even she was unaware that her famous father had given money to the cause of the imprisoned invaders, but said it would be consistent with his character and his sympathies.
"Knowing my dad and my grandfather, I'm sure they were emotionally very involved in the Bay of Pigs invasion. I'm sure my father would be very proud to be acknowledged," Arnaz added.
Surrounded by admirers of her father at the Miami event, Arnaz said, "I feel like I have a lot of friends and family here. We're all probably related." Desi Arnaz was a native-born Cuban.
Nilo Messer, vice president of the association and one of the invaders who were imprisoned, said, "We would always get news from the common prisoners and the employees. Someone told me that Desi Arnaz was helping with the efforts to get us out. He was one of the people pushing for a commission to negotiate our release."
The veterans say Arnaz donated $50,000 — an amount worth about $300,000 today. Reportedly, Arnaz gave the money to a commission headed by Eleanor Roosevelt that arranged to send $53 million worth of food, medicine and farm equipment to Cuba in exchange for the prisoners' release.
Arnaz also provided seed money for several exile organizations, said the Herald report. Arnaz also is said to have provided the contact that led to liberated prisoners appearing on the Ed Sullivan show.
"He cooperated a lot," Rodriguez said. "And he never sought any publicity for helping us or anyone else. Now that he's gone, we want to honor his memory."
Since the '30s there were was the above-ground CPUSA and the underground cells both controlled from Moscow.
Desi's dad was the conservative mayor of Santiago de Cuba back in the 1920s, I believe. Not a big fan of Fidel.
FGS
'...even those Hollywood brats of today are leaning way, way to the hateful left and denigrating our country and military in their "movies."'
Speaking of one of those Hollywood brats, Henry Fonda, dad of Jane, was a life-long Democrat and a member of the ACLU, this according to the audio commentary by Film Historian Drew Casper on the 'Advise and Consent'(1962) DVD release. This is particularly interesting, since the role he plays in the film is a Secretary of State nominee with excessive Leftward political leanings.
-Regards, T.
I like Horowitz a lot. It was a treat to hear him today. He and the author had a good segment.
Henry Fonda was a standard liberal. He said at the end of his life that the three favorite films he made in his career were 'The Grapes of Wrath' 'The Ox Bow Incident' and 'Twelve Angry Men'.
Absolutely correct. I found this out while watching 'The Ox-Bow Incident' on TCM several weeks ago, when the channel paid a 100th birthday tribute to the actor. As for daughter Jane, the apple sure as heck didn't fall far from the tree, huh?
-Regards, T.
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