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A Very Dangerous Citizen: Abraham Lincoln Polonsky and the Hollywood Left.(Review)
by Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001.275 pp., illus. Hardcover: $27.50.
Abraham Polonsky, who was blacklisted at the very moment when he seemed to be developing into a major artist, was responsible for two of the most memorable closing lines in the history of American media, both of them shaped as answers to rhetorical questions. First was John Garfield's remark to a gangster at the end of Body and Soul (1947): "Whaddya gonna do, kill me? Everybody dies." Second was Walter Cronkite's address to the audience at the end of the You Are There television series on CBS in the early Fifties: "What kind of day was it? A day ...
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- Magazine article from: The Historian Markowitz, Norman June 22, 2003 700+ words
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- ABE POLONSKY.(blacklisted filmmaker)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
- Magazine article from: The Nation November 22, 1999 700+ words
Abraham Polonsky, who died in October, was one of the last surviving filmworkers blacklisted...was there protesting. But don't write him down as a grim fanatic. Paul Buhle, author of a biography of him to be published next year by the University...
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- Newspaper article from: The Jewish Advocate (Boston, MA) Shvorin, Vladimir April 25, 2008 700+ words
Arthur Polonsky spoke from his home in Newton with an...the schedule I had as a young man." Polonsky's interest in art hasn't declined...self, but retired. As a professor, Polonsky had a wealth of knowledge and experience...
- A Season of Fear: The Blacklisted Teleplays Of Abraham Polonsky
- Magazine article from: Literature/Film Quarterly John Schultheiss January 1, 1996 700+ words
A Season of Fear is Abraham Polonsky's metaphor for political repression...land and refuse to give it up. (Polonsky 52)1 The author of these words...during the Cold War, is the same Polonsky who is openly acknowledged as the...
