The Meeting that Began the Blacklist
a play by Nat Segaloff, Daniel M. Kimmel and Arnie Reisman
More than half a century since it began — and almost forty after it supposedly ended — the Hollywood Blacklist continues to generate emotion, debate and, above all, interest. How did an entire American industry implement something which everybody behind it insisted didn't exist? How could studio moguls — who could make and break stars without missing a breath — ignore the very same Constitution that gave them the freedom to make movies?