Archives and Collections
British Film Institute, London:
Carl Foreman Papers
Fred Zinnemann Papers
Columbia University Oral History Collection, New York:
Edward Dmytryk
Carl Foreman
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.:
Main Reading Room
Microfilm and Electronic Research Center:
Communist Activity in the Entertainment Industry FBI Files (Leab Microfilm)
Moving Image Research Center:
Body and Soul, Cornered, Force of Evil, The Hoaxters, I Was a Communist for the FBI, The Sniper, Till the End of Time
Performing Arts Reading Room
Prints and Photographs Division
Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Los Angeles:
American Legion anti-Communist Material
Rudy Behlmer Papers
Charles Champlin Collection
Communist Activity in the Entertainment Industry FBI Files
Hedda Hopper Papers
Elizabeth Poe Kerby Papers
Joseph L. Mankiewicz Papers
Lawrence H. Suid File
Fred Zinnemann Collection
National Archives and Record Administration, Washington, D.C.:
House Committee on Un-American Activities Files
FBI Files on Gary Cooper, Carl Foreman, and Stanley Kramer
National Archives Motion Picture, Sound and Video Branch at College Park, Md.:
Paramount News newsreels
Museum of Modern Art, Film Study Center, New York:
High Noon, Gary Cooper, and Fred Zinnemann Clipping Files
New York Public Library, Dorot Jewish Division:
American Jewish Committee Oral Histories: Martin Gang
NYPL Performing Arts Library:
Clipping files for Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly
New York University Tamiment Library, New York:
Victor Navasky Papers
Northwestern University, Chicago:
Patricia Neal Papers
UCLA Special Collections Library, Los Angeles:
Martin Berkeley Papers
Stanley Kramer Papers
Michael Wilson Papers
UCLA Oral History Collection:
Roy M. Brewer
Ben Margolies
Elizabeth Poe Kerby
Zelma Wilson
University of Southern California Cinematic Arts Library:
Michael A. Hoey audio interviews
Warner Bros. Archives
Writers Guild Foundation, Los Angeles:
Screen Writers Guild files
Private Holdings
Larry Ceplair:
Interviews and articles
Lionel Chetwynd:
Carl Foreman Papers and CF Tape transcripts
Darkness at High Noon interview transcripts
J. Hoberman:
Select copies of FBI files
Joanne Taylor-Johnson:
Bruce Church letters, memos, and photographs
Karen Kramer:
Stanley Kramer letters and clippings
Tim Zinnemann:
Letters to Fred Zinnemann
Blacklist Books
Banks, Miranda J. The Writers: A History of American Screenwriters and Their Guild. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University, 2015.
Barth, Alan. The Loyalty of Free Men. New York: Cardinal, 1952 (paperback).
Barzman, Norma. The Red and the Blacklist: The Intimate Memoir of a Hollywood Expatriate. New York: Nation Books, 2003.
Bentley, Eric. Thirty Years of Treason: Excerpts from Hearings Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1938–68. New York: Nation Books, 2001.
Bernstein, Carl. Loyalties: A Son’s Memoir. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989.
Bernstein, Walter. Inside Out: A Memoir of the Blacklist. New York: Knopf, 1996.
Bessie, Alvah. Inquisition in Eden. Berlin: Seven Seas, 1967.
Buhle, Paul and Dave Wagner. Radical Hollywood: The Untold Story Behind America’s Favorite Movies. New York: New Press, 2002.
———A Very Dangerous Citizen: Abraham Lincoln Polonsky and the Hollywood Left. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.
Casty, Alan. Communism in Hollywood: The Moral Paradoxes of Testimony, Silence, and Betrayal. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2009.
———Robert Rossen: The Films and Politics of a Blacklisted Idealist. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2013.
Caute, David. The Great Fear: The Anti-Communist Purge Under Truman and Eisenhower. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978.
———Joseph Losey: A Revenge on Life. London: Faber and Faber, 1994.
Ceplair, Larry and Steven Englund. The Inquisition in Hollywood: Politics in the Film Community 1930–1960. Garden City, NY: Anchor Press, 1980.
———and Christopher Trumbo. Dalton Trumbo: Blacklisted Hollywood Radical. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
Ciment, Michel. Conversations with Losey. London: Methuen, 1985.
Cogley, John. Report on Blacklisting: I. Movies. The Fund for the Republic, 1956.
Cole, Lester. Hollywood Red: The Autobiography of Lester Cole. Palo Alto: Ramparts Press, 1981.
Critchlow, Donald T. When Hollywood Was Right: How Movie Stars, Studio Moguls, and Big Business Remade American Politics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University, 2013.
Dmytryk, Edward. Odd Man Out: A Memoir of the Hollywood Ten. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996.
Donner, Frank J. The Un-Americans. New York: Ballantine, 1961.
Douglas, Kirk. I Am Spartacus! New York: Open Road, 2012.
Dunne, Philip. Take Two: A Life in Movies and Politics. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1980.
Eyman, Scott. John Wayne: The Life and the Legend. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014.
FBI Confidential Files. Communist Activity in the Entertainment Industry. FBI Surveillance Files on Hollywood 1942–58 [microfilm]. Daniel J. Leab, ed. Bethesda: University Publications of America, 1991.
Forster, Arnold. Square One. New York: Donald I. Fine, 1988.
Fourth Report: Un-American Activities in California, Communist Front Organizations. Joint Fact-Finding Committee to the 1948 Regular California Legislature, Sacramento 1948.
Gabler, Neal. An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood. New York: Crown, 1988.
Garrett, Betty with Ron Rapoport. Betty Garrett and Other Songs: A Life on Stage and Screen. Lanham, Md.: Madison, 1998.
Grant, Lee. I Said Yes to Everything. New York: Blue Rider Press, 2014.
Goodman, Walter. The Committee. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1968.
Hayden, Sterling. Wanderer. New York: Knopf, 1963.
Haynes, John Earl and Harvey Klehr. In Denial: Historians, Communism & Espionage. San Francisco: Encounter, 2003.
———and Fidrikh Firsov. The Secret World of American Communism. New Haven: Yale University, 1996.
Hellman, Lillian. Scoundrel Time. New York: Little, Brown, 1976.
Hoberman, J. An Army of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of the Cold War. New York: New Press, 2011.
Horne, Gerald. The Final Victim of the Blacklist: John Howard Lawson, Dean of the Hollywood Ten. Berkeley: University of California, 2006.
House Committee on Un-American Activities. Communist Infiltration of the Motion-Picture Industry, Hearings. 82nd Congress, 1951–2, Parts. I-X. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1951–2.
———Hearings Regarding the Communist Infiltration of the Motion Picture Industry, 80th Congress, October 1947. Washington, GPO, 1947.
Kanfer, Stefan. A Journal of the Plague Years. New York: Atheneum, 1973.
Kazan, Elia. A Life. New York: Knopf, 1988.
Kazin, Michael. American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation. New York: Knopf, 2011.
Koch, Howard. As Time Goes By: Memories of a Writer. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979.
Kraft, Hy. On My Way to the Theater. New York: Macmillan, 1971.
Langdon, Jennifer. Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood. New York: Columbia University, 2009.
Lardner Jr., Ring. I’d Hate Myself in the Morning: A Memoir. New York: Nation Books, 2000.
McWilliams, Carey. The Education of Carey McWilliams. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978.
Miller, Arthur. Timebends: A Life. New York: Grove Press, 1987.
Navasky, Victor S. Naming Names. New York: Viking, 1980.
Nelson, Steve, and James B. Barrett and Bob Peck. American Radical. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, 1981.
Prime, Rebecca. Hollywood Exiles in Europe: The Blacklist and Cold War Film Culture. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University, 2014.
Radosh, Ronald and Allis. Red Star Over Hollywood: The Film Colony’s Long Romance with the Left. San Francisco: Encounter, 2005.
Ross, Steven J. Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics. Oxford: Oxford University, 2011.
Ryskind, Alan H. Hollywood Traitors: Blacklisted Screenwriters, Agents of Stalin, Allies of Hitler. Washington: Regnery, 2015.
Sayre, Nora. Previous Convictions: A Journey Through the 1950s. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University, 1995.
———Running Time: Films of the Cold War. New York: Doubleday, 1982.
Schrecker, Ellen. Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America. Boston: Little, Brown, 1998.
Schwartz, Nancy Lynn. The Hollywood Writers’ Wars. New York: Knopf, 1982.
Swindell, Larry. Body and Soul: The Story of John Garfield. New York: Morrow, 1975.
Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Backlist. Patrick McGilligan and Paul Buhle, eds. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997.
Theoharos, Athan. Chasing Spies. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2002.
“Un-American” Hollywood: Politics and Film in the Blacklist Era. Peter Stanfield, et al, eds. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University, 2007.
Vaughn, Robert. Only Victims: A Study of Show Business Blacklisting. New York: Putnam’s, 1972.
Wills, Garry. John Wayne’s America: The Politics of Celebrity. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.
Hollywood and High Noon Books
Balio, Tino. Grand Design: Hollywood as a Modern Business Enterprise, 1930–1939. History of the American Cinema 5. Berkeley: University of California, 1995.
———United Artists: The Company That Changed the Film Industry. Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1987.
Basinger, Jeanine. The Star Machine. New York: Knopf, 2007.
Behlmer, Rudy. America’s Favorite Movies: Behind the Scenes. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1982.
BFI Companion to the Western, The. Edward Buscombe, ed. London: Andre Deutsch, 1993.
Bingen, Steven. Warner Bros.: Hollywood’s Ultimate Backlot. Lanham, Md.: Taylor, 2014.
Blake, Michael F. Code of Honor: The Making of Three Great American Westerns. Lanham, Md.: Taylor, 2003.
Byman, Jeremy. Showdown at High Noon: Witch-Hunts, Critics and the End of the Western. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2004.
Capra, Frank. The Name Above the Title. New York: Macmillan, 1971.
Dickens, Homer. The Complete Films of Gary Cooper. New York: Citadel Press, 1970.
Drummond, Phillip. High Noon. London: British Film Institute, 1997.
Englund, Steven. Grace of Monaco: An Interpretive Biography. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1984.
Eyman, Scott. Lion of Hollywood: The Life and Legend of Louis B. Mayer. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005.
———The Speed of Sound: Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution 1926–1930. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.
Film Scripts Two: High Noon, Twelve Angry Men and the Defiant Ones. George P. Garrett, O. P. Hardison Jr., Jane R. Gelfman, eds. Milwaukee: Applause, 2013.
The Films of Fred Zinnemann: Critical Perspectives. Arthur Nolletti Jr., ed. Albany: State University of New York, 1999.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Love of the Last Tycoon. New York: Scribner’s, 1993 edition.
Friedrich, Otto. City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s. London: Headline, 1986.
Frost, Jennifer. Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood: Celebrity Gossip and American Conservatism. New York: New York University, 2011.
Geist, Kenneth L. Pictures Will Talk: The Life and Films of Joseph L. Mankiewicz. New York: Scribner’s, 1978.
Holden, Anthony. The Oscars: The Secret History of Hollywood’s Academy Awards. London: Warner Books, 1994.
Hopper, Hedda and James Brough. The Whole Truth and Nothing But. New York: Doubleday, 1963.
Isherwood, Christopher. Prater Violet. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2001.
Janis, Maria Cooper. Gary Cooper Off Camera: A Daughter Remembers. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1999.
———Gary Cooper: Enduring Style. Text by G. Bruce Boyer. Brooklyn: Powerhouse, 2011.
Kaminsky, Stuart. Coop: The Life and Legend of Gary Cooper. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1980.
Kramer, Stanley. A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1997.
Lacey, Robert. Grace. London: Sedgwick and Jackson, 1994.
Lasky Jr., Jesse. Whatever Happened to Hollywood? New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1975.
McCarthy, Todd. Howard Hawks: The Grey Fox of Hollywood. New York: Grove Press, 1997.
Meyers, Jeffrey. Gary Cooper: American Hero. New York: Cooper Square Press, 2001.
Neal, Patricia. As I Am: An Autobiography. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988.
O’Neal, Bill. Tex Ritter: America’s Most Beloved Cowboy. Austin: Eakin Press, 1998.
Palmer, Christopher. Dimitri Tiomkin: A Portrait. London: TE Books, 1984.
Parrish, Robert. Growing Up in Hollywood. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976.
Picker, David V. Musts, Maybes, and Nevers: A Book About the Movies. North Charleston, S.C.: CreateSpace, 2013.
Powdermaker, Hortense. Hollywood: The Dream Factory. Boston: Little, Brown, 1950. Reprinted 2013 by Martino Publishing.
Reagan, Ronald. An American Life. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991.
Schary, Dore. Heyday: An Autobiography. Boston: Little, Brown, 1979.
Schatz, Thomas. Boom and Bust: The American Cinema in the 1940s. History of the American Cinema 6. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1997.
———The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era. New York: Pantheon, 1988.
Schickel, Richard. Schickel on Film. New York: William Morrow, 1989.
Schulberg, Budd. Moving Pictures: Memories of a Hollywood Prince. New York: Stein & Day, 1981.
———What Makes Sammy Run? New York: Random House, 1941.
Slotkin, Richard. Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America. New York: Atheneum, 1992.
Smyth, J. E. Fred Zinnemann and the Cinema of Resistance. Jackson: University of Mississippi, 2014.
Spoto, Donald. High Society: The Life of Grace Kelly. New York: Harmony, 2009.
———Stanley Kramer: Filmmaker. New York: Putnam, 1978.
Stein, Jean. West of Eden: An American Place. New York: Random House, 2016.
Stevens Jr., George. Conversations with the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood’s Golden Era at the American Film Institute. New York: Vintage, 2007.
Swindell, Larry. The Last Hero: A Biography of Gary Cooper. New York: Doubleday, 1980.
Thomson, David. Gary Cooper (Great Stars series). Faber & Faber, 2010.
Tiomkin, Dimitri and Prosper Buranelli. Please Don’t Hate Me. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1959.
Wagner, Walter. You Must Remember This. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1975.
Walker, Alexander. Hollywood England: The British Film Industry in the Sixties. London: Michael Joseph, 1974.
Warshow, Robert. The Immediate Experience: Movies, Comics, Theatre and Other Aspects of Popular Culture. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1962.
Wayne, Jane Ellen. Cooper’s Women. New York: Prentice Hall, 1988.
Williams, Elmo. A Hollywood Memoir. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2006.
Wister, Owen. The Virginian. New York: Grosset & Dunlap edition, 1929.
Zinnemann, Fred. A Life in the Movies: An Autobiography. London: Bloomsbury, 1992.
Select Articles
Berkeley, Martin, “Red Congressmen,” American Mercury, Dec., 1953, pp. 93–6.
———“Reds in Your Living Room,” American Mercury, August, 1953, pp. 55–62.
Bogart, Humphrey, “I’m No Communist,” Photoplay, May, 1948, p. 53–4.
Commager, Henry Steele, “Who Is Loyal to America?” Harper’s, 195:1168, September, 1947, pp. 193–9.
Cooper, Gary (as told to George Scullin), “Well, It Was This Way,” Saturday Evening Post, Eight-Part Series, 2/18 thru 4/7/56.
———(as told to Leonard Slater), “I Took a Good Look at Myself, and This Is What I Saw,” McCall’s, January 1961, pp. 62, 138–42.
Cunningham, J. W., “The Tin Star,” Collier’s, 12/6/1947.
English, Richard, “We Almost Lost Hawaii to the Reds,” Saturday Evening Post, 2/2/1952.
———“What Makes a Hollywood Communist?” Saturday Evening Post, 5/10/1951.
Foreman, Amanda and Jonathan Foreman, “Our Dad Was No Commie,” New Statesman, 3/26/1999.
Foreman, Carl, “High Noon Revisited,” Punch, 4/25/1972, pp. 448–50.
———“Dialogue on Film,” American Film, 4 (April 1979), pp. 35–46.
Foreman, Jonathan, “Exile on Jermyn Street,” Standpoint, July/August 2009, http://standpointmag.co.uk/
———“Witch-hunt,” Index on Censorship, June 1995, pp. 96–9.
Foster, Gwendolyn, “The Women in High Noon: A Metanarrative of Difference,” Film Criticism, c. 18/19, 1, Spring/Fall 1994, pp. 72–81.
Hofstadter, Richard, “The Paranoid Style in American Politics,” Harper’s, Nov. 1964.
Kramer, Hilton, “The Blacklist & the Cold War,” The New York Times, 10/3/1976.
Jacobs, Paul, “Good Guys, Bad Guys, and Congressman Walter,” The Reporter, 5/15/58, pp. 29–31.
Lardner Jr., Ring, “My Life on the Blacklist,” Saturday Evening Post, 10/14/61, pp. 38–44.
Maltz, Albert, “What Shall We Ask of Writers?” New Masses, 2/12/1946, pp. 19–22.
Mathews, J. B., “Did the Movies Really Clean House?” American Legion Magazine, Dec. 1951.
“Preview of the War We Do Not Want,” Collier’s (special issue), 10/27/51.
Rapf, Joanna E., “Myth, Ideology, and Feminism in High Noon,” Journal of Popular Culture, Spring 1990: 23, pp. 75–80.
Robinson, Edward G., “How the reds made a sucker out of me,” American Legion Magazine, Oct. 1952, pp. 11, 61–70.
Ross, Lillian, “Come in, Lassie!” New Yorker, 2/21/48, pp. 32–48.
Yacowar, Maurice, “Cyrano de HUAC,” Journal of Popular Film, 5:1, 1976, pp. 68–75.
Zinnemann, Fred, “Choreography of a Gun Fight,” Sight and Sound, 6:1, Jan. 1966, pp. 14–15.
Documentary Films
Cooper & Hemingway: The True Gen. Written and directed by John Mulholland. New York: Passion River, 2013.
Darkness at High Noon: The Carl Foreman Documents. Written and directed by Lionel Chetwynd. Whidbey Island Films, 2001.
High Noon: 2 -Disc Ultimate Collector’s Edition, 2008.
Hollywood on Trial. Directed by David Helpern, written by Arnie Reisman. Cinema Associates, 1976.
The Making of High Noon. Written by Leonard Maltin. Moda Entertainment, 2006.
Marsha Hunt Interview—Pt. 2, Film Noir Foundation, 7/3/12. https://www.youtube.com/
The Real West, Written by Phillip Reisman Jr., produced and directed by Donald B. Hyatt. Project Twenty NBC News, 1961.
Red Hollywood. Written and directed by Thom Andersen and Noel Burch. Cinema Guild, 2014.
Word Into Image: Screenwriter Carl Foreman. Sanders, Terry and Frieda Lee Mock. Santa Monica, Ca.: American Film Foundation, 1981.
Websites
http://www.cinematographers.nl/
“Great Cinematographers: Floyd Crosby”
www.garycooperscrapbook.proboards.com online collection of articles, photographs, and other memorabilia gathered and maintained by Coopsgirl.
www.youmustrememberthispodcast.com Karina Longworth’s stories of Hollywood’s first century, including a sixteen-part series on the Hollywood blacklist.