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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...
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.
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...
Alvah Bessie. American writer. Learn about this topic in these articles: Hollywood Ten. In Hollywood Ten. 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. Entertainment & Pop Culture Movies. Hollywood Ten. American history.
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...
Alvah Cecil Bessie (June 4, 1904 – July 21, 1985) was an American novelist, journalist and screenwriter who was imprisoned for ten months and blacklisted by the movie studio bosses for being one of the group known as the Hollywood Ten.
