Portrait of director Billy Wilder. During the blacklist of writers period, he was quoted as saying, "Blacklist, shmacklist, as long as they're all working," because so many of the Hollywood Ten and others were working under pseudonyms or behind the identities of other writers. He also quipped that "of the Unfriendly Ten, only two had any talent; the other eight were just unfriendly." Notwithstanding, others believed that the Ten included some of the most talented writers in Hollywood.
Wilder, Billy,--1906-2002 United States.--Congress.--House Anti-communist movements--United States Authors, American Blacklisting of authors--United States Motion picture producers and directors--United States Hollywood blacklist Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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