Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Movie stars, led by Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, protest hearings by the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1947.

For one week in October 1947, the town was enthralled not with a movie opening or a celebrity scandal but with an unfolding drama in Washington, D.C. The hearings of the House Un-American Activities ...

Jane Fonda is reviving the Hollywood advocacy group to meet the high-stakes challenges to free expression in the Trump era. Jane Fonda accepts her Lifetime Achievement Award at last winter’s Screen ...

This new play about Arthur Miller, Marilyn Monroe and Elia Kazan follows their lives framed around Millers testimony before the House Unamerican Activities Committee or HUAC hearings. The show, ...

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As the saying goes, past is indeed prologue — and that can be either daunting or inspiring. That was a subtext this week when professor and historian Dr. Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall presented her ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The membership roll already includes scores of famous actors like Jamie Lee Curtis, ...