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People crying about some sort of non existent blacklist. The period of the HUAC hearing coincided with a dramatic slowdown in motion picture production. With the switchover to color for most all movies, competition from TV, and the end of double features and "B" movies, the number of pictures produced by Hollywood declined by something like 3/4 during this period. A lot of people lost their jobs and never worked in Hollywood again. A few of them had refused to testify.
Still, I guess Hollywood people prefer to cast themselves in the role of heroic blacklistees rather than as unlucky unemployed losers who couldn't cut it in a tight market.
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