In his 1947 article from “Photoplay”, the novelist James M. Cain did not even attempt to answer the question as to how lousy Hollywood was with dirty communists, however he did spell out that there were enough of them in the industry to bring production to a standstill, if they ever cared to do so. Cain’s article encourages both the executive class and the pinko-wordsmiths to walk the middle path and keep the cameras rolling.
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