Hollywood on Trial; the Story of the 10 Who Were Indicted.

E-239: Boni & Gaer. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1948. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Boni & Gaer, New York, 1948. 229 pages. Signed by Herbert Biberman, Samuel Ornitz, Edward Dmytryk on the FFEP. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (DJ is chipped and worn to the spine ends). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The Hollywood Ten were Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, Lester Cole, Edward Dmytryk, Ring Lardner, John Howard Lawson, Albert Maltz, Samuel Ornitz, Adrian Scott, and Dalton Trumbo. All ten refused to testify and received prison sentences for contempt of Congress, then blacklisted from the motion picture industry. Herbert J. Biberman (March 4, 1900 – June 30, 1971) was an American screenwriter and film director. He was one of the Hollywood Ten and directed Salt of the Earth (1954) , a film barely released in the United States, about a zinc miners' strike in Grant County, New Mexico. His membership in the Directors Guild of America was posthumously restored in 1997; he had been expelled in 1950. Biberman was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Joseph and Eva Biberman and was the brother of American artist, Edward Biberman. Biberman's pre-blacklist career included writing such films as King of Chinatown (1939) , When Tomorrow Comes (1939) , Action in Arabia (1944) , The Master Race (1944) , which he also directed, and New Orleans (1947) , as well as directing such films as One Way Ticket (1935) and Meet Nero Wolfe (1936). He married actress Gale Sondergaard in 1930; the marriage lasted for the rest of Biberman's life. Biberman died from bone cancer in 1971 in New York City. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .