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Paul Jarrico was born in Los Angeles, California on January 12, 1915, as Israel Shapiro. His father was a Russian Jewish immigrant, a lawyer, poet and socialist. While attending UCLA, Jarrico joined the Young Communist League, where he became an active member of the American Communist Party. His alliance and association with the party lasted ...
Oct 30, 1997 · Screenwriter Paul Jarrico, who went from celebrated scribe in the World War II years to blacklisted non-entity merely a decade later, died Tuesday from injuries sustained in a car accident on the ...
Paul Jerricho (born 18 November 1948) is a British actor. Early life [ edit ] Brought up in the Caribbean, [3] Jerricho got into the acting bug after playing Joseph in a Nativity play.
Aug 14, 2014 · Generously packed with film clips and interviews with three other prominent blacklisted names — Paul Jarrico, Ring Lardner Jr. and Alfred Levitt — “Red Hollywood” is an intellectual tour ...
Dec 20, 2020 · But it was Paul Jarrico, a screenwriter and producer who was writing one of RKO’s latest films, The Las Vegas Story (1952), who was perhaps most actively targeted by Hughes’ supposed patriotism. In 1951, after refusing to answer questions regarding his communist connections before HUAC, RKO fired Jarrico under claims that he violated the morals clause within his contract.
Paul Jarrico's career is inextricably linked to the Hollywood blacklist—and to spirit and daring with which he responded to the post-World War II House UnAmerican Activities Committee (HUAC) witchhunt. Back in the early 1950s, when he was called to testify before HUAC, Jarrico took the Fifth Amendment.
RKO RADIO PICTURES, INC. (a Corporation), Respondent, v. PAUL JARRICO, Appellant. COUNSEL. Edward Mosk for Appellant. Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp and Arthur Groman for Respondent. OPINION. DORAN, J. This is an appeal from the judgment in an action for declaratory relief.
