Screenwriter Ian McLellan Hunter, who often wrote in collaboration with his friend Ring Lardner, Jr., one of the Hollywood Ten. Hunter too was blacklisted and settled in Mexico, where he wrote under pseudonyms for many years. In 1969 he wrote "A Dream of Kings" under his own name and later taught screenwriting at New York University for twenty years. At one time fellow writer Dalton Trumbo urinated on his lawn.
Hunter, Ian McLellan United States.--Congress.--House Hollywood Ten Anti-communist movements--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles) Authors, American--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles) Blacklisting of authors--United States Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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