Hollywood Divided: The 1950 Screen Directors Guild Meeting and the Impact of the Blacklist - Hardcover

by Kevin Brianton (Author)

On October 22, 1950, the Screen Directors Guild (SDG) gathered for a meeting at the opulent Beverly Hills Hotel. Among the group's leaders were some of the most powerful men in Hollywood--John Ford, Cecil B. DeMille, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, John Huston, Frank Capra, William Wyler, and Rouben Mamoulian--and the issue on the table was nothing less than a vote to dismiss Mankiewicz as the guild's president after he opposed an anticommunist loyalty oath that could have expande

Author Biography

Kevin Brianton is a lecturer in strategic communication at La Trobe University.