Edward Huebsch
20th-century American communist screenwriter
Edward Huebsch, AKA "Eddie Huebsch" and "Ed Huebsch," (1914–1982) was a 20th-century American Communist screenwriter whose career was cut short by the Hollywood blacklist.
Background
Edward Huebsch was born on February 20, 1914, in New York City.
Career
In 1942 following the December 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Huebsch volunteered to serve in the United States Army.
Huebsch moved to Los Angeles in 1946 after receiving his discharge and spending some time with family in New York.
Screenwriter
Huebsch became a screenwriter, whose career took off in the late 1940s. He often adapted books to film, as in Best Man Wins, adapted from a story by Mark Twain. Blacklist scholars Ceplair and Englund grouped Huebsch among those screenwriters who considered movies a "high art."
Huebsch joined the League of American Writers, a Popular Front group organized by the Communist Party in 1935 and disbanded in 1943. (His relative B.W. Huebsch of Viking Press was also a member.)
By 1951, Huebsch went onto the Hollywood Blacklist; his name was omitted from writing credits for The Son of Dr. Jekyll.
Hollywood Blacklist
Investigation into Communist infiltration into Hollywood commenced nationally with hearings by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in October 1947 that led to indictment of the Hollywood Ten for contempt of Congress.
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