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Lillian Lily Hellman — Part 1

101 pages · May 10, 2026 · Document date: Nov 17, 1932 · Broad topic: General · Topic: Lillian Lily Hellman · 88 pages OCR'd
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nj. oa et wean & ea ew . ae . CO IAB OD RUAN RUN MES CU AM aH OWE YAN RUN we ew we He - AnwVwrwws °o wn NF: ~ | \ . ee Mn le roe mang ln: + Aili ewe — . > a ‘ ‘ . i LA 100-22366 sayy Kors and soLouoyarteaaais, a Jewish delegation from Russia, made a visit — to america in oepterber, 1943, that . sponsoring committee and a Los Angeles re- eeption were a pointed to attend to the affaira relating to this visit. : LILLIA HELLLAN was o7 the reception cormittee, alon; vith such pere sonapes as B.DI:, CaiTO?, .DAD C. CARTI:, LION FSUCHT “ANGER, ALITI2 LUSTOH, PAUL ROBISO., BoRWAN SHUWLIN, UPTON SINCLAIZ, JOHN.0 aD LA So, TY Cit, Sai. OidiITZ, Je SDiAWD BRO.BSIG, and others. . 42,679 BIER -2c0rtea that star ZLs0y, secretary of the Alameda County Communist Party, 1723 Webster Street, Oakland, California, and a member of the State Buro and of the national Committee of the Communist Party, addreseed a letter to LILLIAN HBLIMAN, care of arner Brothers Studio, Hollywood, California, dated October 1, 1913, in which he complimented her on her story vhichvas made into a notion picture entitled "“ATCH Ox TH. RHINE", In part, the letter stated: "I have bacon out in Crlifornia nov for about four years, and have more or less permanemtly located in Oakland, carrying; on the usual kind of work that I was doing even before I went to Spain. « « Iam taking it for granted that you remeber me, but perhaps you have fergotten. Anyway ,ve meat dn Vaelannta in 1937 with DORCTH ARER aL LEW CA ‘YBELL, LASSER, and aay we ook PR he we ak crepe pe LOUIS FISHER.” ; ; -- Fe ee ee ae The lotter was returned on October 8, 1943, withthe notation "Not at warner Brothers — . | | LILLIAN SECLLHAN ig the suthor of several well knowm dories and plays, among which are "THE LITTIC FOK3S” and "HO.TH STAR". The LOS ANGELZS EXAMINTR for December 27, 1913, under the heading PNO.TH STAR insidious propaganda", carried an article by NEIL 2aU, in sudstance as follova: “SANUDL GCLLWYI! has a reputation for making fine nictures, de is famous for sparinz; no pains, and for his netioulous attention to the emallest production details. I+ is therefore hard for this reviewer to understand why he has squandered a cold two million dollars in the making of "i0:TH STARt*. It 48 a sioture that should rever have been made - eanécially by an nerican, presumably as patriotic as SANUEL GODIN. ‘Written by LILLIA HeLL. ai’, vhose interest in Sovietism is well known, it should get more Cecmunist friends amonz unthinking sophomerioc minds than the Jete TilA GOLDKA™ tried to snare before her deportation. It Chie Wk “se isn't that ‘NOT? STAR! comes out boldly labeled as Soviet pr opaganda. It is too insidious for that. The danger is that someone may take the YS
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