[1] In 1930, former Mirror colleague Samuel Marx (later head of scenery at MGM), invited Kahn to move to Hollywood and try his luck as a screenwriter.
[1] In 1947, when the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) began its hearings on "Communist infiltration," Kahn was one of the "Nineteen Unfriendlies" subpoenaed.
[4] Kahn used the pseudonym "Hugh G. Foster" to write magazine articles for Holiday and Atlantic Monthly, but he never wrote scripts for Hollywood again.
[1][4] Film Screenplays: Television: Books: Kahn is the subject of his son Tony's 1987 short documentary The Day the Cold War Came Home.
[8] Blacklisted, a docu-drama in six half-hour episodes that first aired on National Public Radio in 1997, chronicles the last fifteen years of Gordon Kahn's life and the fears and ordeal his family experienced.
The words put in the mouth of J. Edgar Hoover were all derived from a confidential 3,000-page FBI surveillance file on Gordon Kahn dated from 1944 to 1962.