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Abraham Lincoln Polonsky (December 5, 1910 – October 26, 1999) was an American film director, screenwriter, essayist and novelist. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Body and Soul but in the early 1950s was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios, after refusing to testify at congressional hearings of ...
Writer-director Abraham Lincoln Polonsky, one of the most prominent victims of the Hollywood blacklisting of communists and social progressives in the post-World War II period, was born on December 5, 1910, in New York, New York.
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- New York City, New York, USA
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- Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
Apr 15, 2005 · Learn about the life and career of Abraham Polonsky, a radical left-wing writer and director who was blacklisted by Hollywood for his Communist beliefs. Explore his three films, his screenplays, his novels and his involvement in the Resistance during World War II.
Oct 29, 1999 · Abraham Polonsky, a director and screenwriter who was an early Hollywood master of film noir and who worked under many disguises after being blacklisted in the McCarthy era, died on Tuesday at...
Nov 11, 2015 · Abraham Polonsky was a screenwriter who was a victim of the Hollywood Blacklist. He wrote films such as BODY AND SOUL (1947), FORCE OF EVIL (1948) and ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW (1959). In...
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- 1925
- Writers Guild Foundation
Oct 28, 1999 · Abraham Polonsky, a blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter and director who continued his creative output without credit for two decades during the anti-Communist era, has died. He was 88.
In his nearly three-hour interview, Abraham Polonsky (1910-1999) speaks frankly about appearing before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1951 (in which he was labeled by Congressman Harold H. Velde as "the most dangerous man in America") and his subsequent blacklisting in the film and television industry.
