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The problem was that CSU proceeded as if it were merrily unaware of the larger context of movie production and assumed that militancy alone was sufficient to bring gains. At times the federation seemed not to recognize Hollywood’s importance to the nation’s overall export earnings, balance of trade…

In September 1946 the Screen Writers Guild, which had yet to be purged of the left, requested renegotiation of the accord between the United States and France on movies; among other things, this accord had restricted the showing of French films in the United States to Hollywood’s advantage.141 The …

Still, Hollywood did have to make serious adjustments as a result of the war; these changes favored the conservative bent of MPAPAI. Box-office returns from the European and South American markets contributed heavily to Hollywood’s gross income in 1938, and provided almost all of the actual profit.…

More often than not, however, the studios’ class predilections were uniform both off-screen and on. Will Hays and Joseph Breen, the official “censors” designated to ensure that sexual and other ostensibly offensive subjects did not make their way into movies, “intervened to have the studio change d…

Referring to his battle with this studio, Herb Sorrell contended that “Mr. Disney had more Communists than any other … studio at the time this strike took place.” Why? Sorrell replied that “Mr. Disney created more Communists with his substandard wage scales and the way he handled his people.”89 Thi…