Screen Writers Guild

They published an open letter in Variety,[2] defining six objectives of the organization, and inviting all industry writers to apply for membership.

[3] The Writers held numerous dinners, WAMPAS Baby Stars Candidates Parades,[5] parties, and presentations of one-act plays through the mid-1930s.

Louis B. Mayer founded the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences as a means of bypassing union negotiations.

Warner Brothers released the first commercial sound film, The Jazz Singer, bringing fundamental changes to screenwriting.

They included Donald Ogden Stewart, Charles Brackett, John Bright, Philip Dunne, Dorothy Parker and Howard J.

[6] Others active in the 1930s included Lillian Hellman, Dashiell Hammett, Ogden Nash, Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, and Maurice Rapf.

[12] Beginning in 1940, the Guild came under attack by the House Committee on Un-American Activities for the "radical communist leanings" of many of its members.

Remember that when it was needed, in Europe, they had to find the house painter and the gangster to make fear work and terror acceptable to the ignorant.