march february american screenwriter film director producer film career spanned decades film king men won best picture best actor nominated oscar best director won film won golden globe award best picture directed nominated won directing writing stage new_york moved hollywood worked screenwriter interrupted career serve chairman body organize writers effort world war joined picket line making film newly formed production company later films companies usually collaboration columbia member believed party dedicated social causes sort poor jews new_york interested ended relations party twice called house american activities committee exercised fifth amendment rights appearance refusing state communist result found hollywood studios unable renew passport second appearance named people current communists ended order repair finances produced film italy great success conflicts set disillusioned film biography early life career born march raised new_york_city parents russian jewish immigrants father youth attended pool fought providing crucial background greatest films body soul respectively started theatrical career stage manager director stock broadway productions mainly social radical theaters flourished new_york early mid-1930s directed labor tree year later directed attacked germany dictatorship adolf_hitler wrote directed play body beautiful comedy naive dancer play closed performances director impressed signed personal contract marriage married couple children work hollywood credit hollywood wrote script based prosecution crime lord eventually titled management saw unknown quantity result won praise solo script won forget fictionalized account featuring debut performance dust destiny written story fugitive justice eventually acquitted help attorney journalist arguing million boys country similar plight ordered producer cut script adding story people group individual problem national writers gangster melodrama released remake play film written released child born plot recounted experiences mothers little scope modify original released based novel film strong cast production draft script greatest influence film character captain remained victim oppressed capitalist hierarchy symbol split novel hero intellectual rebellious cut political points production blues night written colleagues released shows group jazz musicians traveling depression informal methods represent working class culture music big bands reviewer thought sound track film offer warner disappointed sales attack pearl harbor december set december body organize writers war effort served body chairman advocated opening second support west european resistance nazis earnings greater work communist_party forced abandon partly developed film projects including treasure sierra eventually directed joined picket line making enemy signed contract independent production company formed previously head production wrote scripts company strange love martha strange love short story introduce main plot set years later wrote relationship broke received offers production companies making new career dramatic actor agreed clock successfully campaigned direct debut directing crime melodrama proved modest success signed direct script described possibly best film preferred ending hero wins boxing match killed gangster insisted ending hero escapes obscurity fight following success body soul formed production company signed contract gave wide autonomy second film studio based novel turn based career louisiana politician introduced new concept defenders ordinary people turn new requirement participation film write columbia saying longer communist_party member critiques draft script included scrapping framing structure difficult audiences follow improvements relationships motivations characters meeting communist_party los_angeles severely criticized film severed relations party academy award best picture won award honored nominated lost letter wives won golden globe best director film won golden globe best picture film directed released work studios new_york_times critic called best film bull fighting examinations end world war elements resisted entry world war pro fascist continued attempts control punish left leaning highly talented entertainment professionals support churchill fight spread europe 1930s united_states technically neutral republicans gained overwhelming majority congressional elections power committees failed stop anti fascist artists war communist victory china start korean war reinforced anti communist time hearings included openly leftist writers studio hired earliest openly anti nazi studios hollywood confessions nazi spy attacked forces time warner reportedly accused incorporating communist propaganda scripts claimed fired fact real reason warner writer union activities witnesses october house american activities committee second called testify named communist witnesses appeared time june exercised rights fifth amendment self taking came known augmented fifth testified member communist_party disagreed aims party asked state member party refused answer placed unofficial hollywood studios columbia broke production contract unconstitutional widespread practice communist refused renew passport inability find work brought like friend communist committee named people communists explained committee chose testify don think years thinking individual luxury personal morality pit feel today strongly security safety nation later shed light father decision killed work torn desire work desire talk didn know think wanted know think talked didn way explained politics studios chance working pressure sick diabetes bad drinking time understood refused talk time point view kid point love like testimony testimony destroyed lifelong friendships dozens careers unlike career recovered flourished rest life return filmmaking wrote trying repair finances years work following hearing produce film italy premiered italy usa later said fun took seriously didn come critics dismissed film concluded film achieved contemporary critics realized female lead resolves conflicts dance choreography highlights process innovative cinematography dance scenes hoped blockbuster majority reviews criticized film failing audience interest review new_york_times wrote moments rare thoughtful spectacular entertainment wrote produced directed drawing experiences pool teamed adapt novel screen nominated academy_awards won nominated best director win award named shared enormous popular success credited sparking resurgence popularity pool united_states decline decades ill started final film poorly received united_states lost interest directing reportedly conflicts film star filmmaker said isn worth kind grief won screen right picture got record content let stand time death planning script conceived showing hopes struggles local community contrasting nearby described symbol america imperial reach death died new_york_city age february following series illnesses interred hills cemetery hastings hudson new_york survived wife susan son stephen daughters carol ellen guitarist vocalist alternative bands reception directors developed film french grey film films consistent themes conditions working people portrayal opposition dust destiny written released regularly reviewed new_york_times complained long line boys poor unlike filmmakers willing explain aims director element common films desire success ambition important element american life important element increasingly important known western civilization commented talent force applied let acknowledged social concerns central works commented different earlier films emphasized mood narrative examined pictures nature madness noted strong female characters 1930s 1940s replacing male relationships 1950s onwards earlier pattern cited script strange love martha melodramatic portrayed woman consumed power money success created strong women 1960s generally destroyed main character based real events novels early drafts script king men received criticisms columbia head production warner considered best films including sea wolf written pleased script strange love martha produced company turned films producer writer director wanted operate control studio social message films eclipsed america turned conservative regarded king men possibly best genre examined alcoholism adultery political corruption influence journalism preserved film culturally historically aesthetically significant produced directed wrote time variety praised cast complained aspects story felt film far long praised cast sure economical direction thought script strains hard air menace film won academy_awards nominated seven nominated golden categories gained awards nominations preserved culturally historically aesthetically significant roger_ebert described film scenes psychic weight grow memories praised decision develop main characters listed film time similar reasons praised decision shoot film created black white accolades appeared 2000s decade stephen gothic describe american films early 1960s based psychological horror regarded female protagonist demonic regarded extreme american film industry applications concepts patient track record previous conquests film describes films passionate mysterious truly personal films look increasingly dated self contained grow works
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