Edward Huebsch
[3] In 1942 following the December 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Huebsch volunteered to serve in the United States Army.
[2][3] Huebsch moved to Los Angeles in 1946 after receiving his discharge and spending some time with family in New York.
[11] Blacklist scholars Ceplair and Englund grouped Huebsch among those screenwriters who considered movies a "high art.
"[2] Huebsch joined the League of American Writers,[12] a Popular Front group organized by the Communist Party in 1935 and disbanded in 1943.
HUAC investigator William A. Wheeler testified: The last individual which I wish to bring to the committee's attention is Edward Huebsch.
[15] (The HUAC hearing transcript includes a footnote with corrected address: "Edward Huebsch, 10200 La Nida, North Hollywood.
"[15]) Wheeler then read aloud for the public a letter from Jakes J. Boyiz, US Marshal for the Southern District of California, that shared "the following named persons be served subpenas commanding their appearance In the District of Columbia: Georgia Backus Alexander, Jack Berry, Hugo Butler, Leonardo Bercovici, Edward Huebsch, Karen Morley, Fred Rinaldo, Lew Solomon, Michael Uris.
Roberts described himself as a "motion-picture writer" who had worked in that business since 1936 for studios major (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Columbia, Universal) and minor (Monogram).
In 1938, Roberts first met Ben Barzman's home, where members like John Howard Lawson asked him to join.
Roberts left the Party in 1946, but Huebsch came back to ask him to rejoin and support the Conference of Studio Unions (CSU) strike (see "Hollywood Black Friday").
On March 24, 1953, David A. Lang, a fellow screenwriter, named Huebsch as part of a Communist cell whose members also included: George Bassman, Nick Bela, Edward Biberman, Henry Blankfort, Laurie Blankfort, William Blowitz, Hugo Butler, Howard Dimsdale, Morton Grant, Lester Koenig, Millard Lampell, Pauline Lagerfin, Isobel Lennart, Al Levitt, Arnold Manoff, Mortimer Offner, W.L.
Eventually, Huebsch refused to answer by citing the First, Fifth, Ninth, and Tenth Amendments of the United States Constitution, at which point the committee dismissed him.
[3] The New York Times noted Huebsch's "verbal jousting" with HUAC and that committee members called him "contemptuous.
"[19] The New York Times called the movie a "deadly solemn, gadgety suspense-melodrama about a disgruntled, liberal-thinking United States general, a Vietnam veteran whose out-spoken antiwar views got him railroaded to prison on a trumped-up murder charge.
"[20] While the newspaper summed it up in 1977 as having "no star," in 2012 a new review said it "epitomized a paranoid, quintessentially ’70s moment in American history and imagination... a nerve-racking procedural.
[1] Also in 1980, Ceplair and Englund mentioned Huebsch as one of those dodged subpoenas,[2] recalled in 1999 by fellow screenwriter Bernard Gordon in a specific incident: An especially odious instance of this kind of hysteria occurred close to home at a meeting of the Screen Writers Guild in Hollywood.
One of the right-wing members raised a point of order and moved the marshal be given temporary membership in the guild and be permitted to enter the hall.
