- Albert Maltz
Albert Maltz (
October 28 ,1908 –April 26 ,1985 ) was an Americanauthor andscreenwriter who was one of theHollywood Ten who wereblacklisted by theHollywood movie studio bosses during the era ofMcCarthyism .Brooklyn ,New York , Albert Maltz was educated atColumbia University and theYale School of Drama . Maltz worked as a playwright for the Theatre Union during the early 1930s and wrote his first of eighteen screenplays for Hollywood in 1932. At the Theater Union he metMargaret Larkin , whom he married in 1937. He won the 1938 O. Henry Award for "The Happiest Man on Earth," ashort story published inHarper's Magazine . In 1944 he published the novel "The Cross and the Arrow".For his script for the 1945 film "
Pride of the Marines ", Maltz was nominated for anAcademy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay . He won the 1951 Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Drama for his screenplay for "Broken Arrow". However, due to his blacklisting at the time, fellowMPAA screenwriterMichael Blankfort put his name on the script as the only way to get it accepted by any of the Hollywoodmovie studio s. As such, Blankfort was named the winner until things were made right for Maltz, albeit posthumously, in 1997 when theWriters Guild of America unanimously voted to restorescreen credit to those who had been blacklisted.Albert Maltz died in
Los Angeles, California in 1985.Partial filmography:
*"Two Mules for Sister Sara " (1970)
*"The Robe" (1953) (originally uncredited)
*"Broken Arrow" (1950) (originally uncredited)
*"The Naked City " (1948)
*"Cloak and Dagger" (1946)
*"Pride of the Marines " (1945)
*"The House I Live In " (1945)External links
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