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The record will show that on october 27th, 1947, a subcommittee of the house on American Activities Committee met with the chairman, dishonorable Parnell Thomas presiding. The house on American Activities Committee is in session. Let yourself go. You, sir, are not even subpoenaed to testify here. Yeah, im going to speak anyway. Very well, mr. Dreyfuss. My name is Richard Dreyfuss. And im a child of the blacklist. I was not my parents were not in show business but they were the victims of the blacklist nonetheless. I lived on 218 street in bay side, queens and every house on that block was live...

She and her husband were among those iced out of Hollywood because of their affiliation with the Communist party. They moved to Britain and France, where they counted Picasso among their friends

Norma Barzman, the screenwriter, who has died aged 103, was one of the last surviving victims of the Hollywood blacklist; she was forced to live in exile with her family in Europe for 27 years.

American screenwriter during the golden age of Hollywood who was blacklisted during the ‘red scare’

Their phone was tapped, and a young Marilyn Monroe warned them that they were under surveillance