A play--Finks--by Madeline Lee Gilford's son, Joe Gilford, examines the necessity--and cost--of fighting forces of fascism and demagoguery.
He would know: his parents, Madeline Lee Gilford and Jack Gilford, bravely stood up to the blacklist despite intense FBI surveillance and retaliation.
There's a new off-Broadway play--Smart Blonde--about the incredible, funny, and brilliant Judy Holliday.
Holliday was in the comedy group the Revuers in Greenwich Village in the 1930s--Lillian Hellman was a fan! Gary Carey wrote a decent biography of Holliday--Judy Holliday: An Intimate Life Story (don't be totally put off by the title).
Had a wonderful conversation with All of Its' Alison Stewart about the Cold War, the blacklist, and the Broadcast 41. You can listen here.
A terrific article by the Smithsonian's Jackie Mansky on how the blacklist suppressed creativity and innovation during the early years of television.
If you're kicking it around Martha's Vineyard tonight, here's a tribute to the brilliant Garson Kanin, husband of the Broadcast 41's Ruth Gordon and an alum of Gertrude Berg's The Goldbergs (Berg was graylisted for her support of actor blacklisted actor and union leader
Join the MIT Press Bookstore in welcoming Carol A. Stabile to discuss her book, The Broadcast 41: Women and the Anti-Communist Blacklist
Broadcast 41 has been excerpted on Literary Hub. Check it out!
Talking at 6 PM tonight at NYU about the Broadcast 41, new media, and resistance.
"When the #MeToo movement made headlines in fall 2017, a group of people from entertainment and cosmetic industries signed a statement declaring that “the clock has run out on sexual assault, harassment and inequality in the workplace.” Journalists swiftly dubbed this “the reckoning”—a word that reflected their sense of some seismic shift in public awareness about how sexual violence is reflected and refracted in policies, politics, work cultures and the stories media tell about the worlds around us."