DISNEYs T HEE 1940s Original Vintage LETTER to HOLLYWOOD BLACKLISTED GORDON KAHN for Sale

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DISNEYs T HEE 1940s Original Vintage LETTER to HOLLYWOOD BLACKLISTED GORDON KAHN:
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THIS IS A Vintage ORIGINAL 1940s Ers Typed LETTER TO - "HOLLYWOOD BLACK LISTED WRITER - GORDON KAHN from T HEE & ED PENNER
Gordon Kahn (1902–1962) was an American writer and screenwriter who was blacklisted during the McCarthy era; he is the father of broadcaster and author Tony Kahn.
Studio executives reacted to the Hollywood blacklist by excluding suspected Communists from employment in the industry.
This was due to the fear of Communist propaganda and the influence of the HUAC.Gordon Jacques Kahn was born on May 11, 1901, in Szigetvár, Hungary.
When he was six years old, he and his parents moved to the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the United States of America.
In 1918, Kahn graduated from Townsend Harris High School in New York City.
He spent the next year at Yale University, then took up studies at Columbia University
While studying at Yale, Kahn became a reporter for the Bridgeport Star.
In New York, he worked for the New York Herald and Zitt's Theatrical Weekly, the latter for which he wrote a Broadway column in the style of Samuel Pepys.
In 1922, he wrote a book called Manhattan Oases about speakeasies, illustrated by his roommate of the time, Al Hirschfeld.
For much of the 1920s, Kahn wrote for the New York Daily Mirror.
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.
He wrote more than a script a year (well over two dozen) in a period under two decades.
Writing credits include: The Death Kiss (1932), Newsboys' Home (1938), and Buy Me That Town (1941).
Movies written by Kahn include X Marks the Spot (1931), The Death Kiss (1932), The Crosby Murder Case (1934), The Night Club (1935), The People's Enemy (1935), Navy Blues (1937), Tenth Avenue Kid (1937), The Sheik Steps Out (1937), Mama Runs Wild (1937), I Stand Accused (1938), Newsboys' Home (1938), Golden Gloves (1939), S.O.S. Tidal Wave (1939), Mickey the Kid (1939), Wolf of New York (1940), World Premiere (1941).
Ring Lardner Jr. got to know Kahn very well during this period: "When I went to work as a reporter on the New York Daily Mirror in 1935 at the age of nineteen, Kahn was a veteran rewrite man there, and I often phoned stories in to him.
Very small and distinguished by the monocle he wore, he had a devastating wit that made you enjoy his company.
For some reason, he never accomplished very much in his screenwriting."
Kahn joined several leftist and liberal causes and helped found the Screen Writers Guild (now Writers Guild of America).He was the first managing editor of The Screen Writer.
Hollywood blacklist:
In 1947, when the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) began its hearings on "Communist infiltration," Kahn was one of the "Nineteen Unfriendlies" subpoenaed.
He was not called to testify and so did not become one of the Hollywood Ten.
Soon after December 1947, however, when the Studios announced the firing of the Hollywood Ten, Kahn lost his job at Warner Bros. Studios.
In 1948, he published Hollywood on Trial.
Kahn sold his 13-room Beverly Hills home, and he and his family moved into a smaller house in Studio City.
In 1950, fearing arrest, he fled to Cuernavaca, Mexico.
His wife and sons Jim and Tony joined him six months later.
The Kahns lived there until low funds in 1956, after which they returned to the United States and lived in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Kahn used the pseudonym "Hugh G. Foster" to write magazine articles for Holiday and Atlantic Monthly, but he never wrote scripts for Hollywood again.
Julian Zimet, another blacklisted writer went to see Kahn: "During a visit to Cuernavaca, a semi-tropical city a few hours' drive from Mexico City, I paid a night-time call on my old friend Gordon Kahn, a blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter who was living there.
The visit was a disaster.
Kahn had been aware of my presence in Mexico and didn't believe my explanation for not having gotten in touch with him sooner.
He suspected me of having become an informer for the American Embassy and as much as ordered me out of his house.
Kahn left Mexico soon after - having been cheated of his money by some unscrupulous business partners, a common occurrence in Mexico - and returned to the United States...
His son described him in an interview long after as having been, at the end, an angry, bitter man."
Personal life and deathKahn married Barbara Brodie; they had two sons.
Kahn is described as a "man who affected a beard and monocle."
One FBI report noted that Kahn had "a facial resemblance to Lenin."
Gordon Kahn died age 61 on December 31, 1962, of a heart attack during a snowstorm in Manchester
Erdman Penner (January 17, 1905 - November 10, 1956) was a Canadian screenwriter and producer, known for his work with Walt Disney, including writing the screenplays for Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Lady and the Tramp among others.
Life and career
Penner was born into a Mennonite family in Rosthern, Saskatchewan, in 1905 to Dr. Erdman Penner (1873–1960) and Blanche Penner (1880–1962).
Penner studied at the University of Saskatchewan, American Academy of Art in Chicago and the American School for Writers in Hollywood.
He was hired by Walt Disney Productions in 1935, where he wrote and adapted stories for Pinocchio, Fantasia, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland and others.
He also wrote song lyrics for Peter Pan and was an associate producer on Lady and the Tramp.
He also played bass saxophone and tuba for the Firehouse Five Plus Two.
He died on November 10, 1956, in Los Angeles, California, US.
Thornton Hee (March 26, 1911 – October 30, 1988) was an American animator, director, and teacher.
He taught character design and caricature.
T. Hee was hired by the Leon Schlesinger Studio as a character designer in 1935, and got to work overtime creating Hollywood star caricatures in The Coo Coo Nut Grove, directed by Friz Freleng.Another T. Hee caricature-packed Merrie Melodie, The Woods Are Full Of Cuckoos, directed by Frank Tashlin, is a spoof of then-popular radio shows Community Sing, Allen's Alley (a.k.a. The Fred Allen Show and Al Pearce & His Gang.It's likely Walt Disney saw these Merrie Melodies, as he hired T. Hee, who subsequently worked on Mother Goose Goes Hollywood, the 1938 Silly Symphony designed and intended as the last word in movie star caricatures.Hee joined Walt Disney Animation Studios around 1937.
T. Hee was one of the storyboard artists who contributed The Reluctant Dragon segment from the 1941 film of the same name.He is most recognized for directing the Dance of the Hours segment of Fantasia.He left after the strike, but returned to work there twice, from 1940 to 1946, and again from 1958 to 1961.
Where T worked between his last 1940's stint for Disney and his joining UPA and the crew of director Robert "Bobe" Cannon is one of the many mysteries I found putting today's post together.
An informative Cartoon Research post noted his work at UPA on the animated titles for the Life Of Riley TV show.Hee also worked for United Productions of America (1951 to 1958) and Terrytoons (1961 to 1963).
Now where T worked between leaving Disney in 1946 and joining UPA is one of many questions about his career I could not answer.
It would appear that T had the task of injecting comedy into the Jolly Frolics cartoons of director Bobe Cannon.
Bobe worked for Chuck Jones at Warner Bros. and Tex Avery at MGM but, as a director at UPA, absolutely abhorred conflict and anything that could remotely resemble slapstick.
That made things a bit of a challenge for the UPA story department.
The Bobe Cannon cartoons enjoyable and charming, but not exactly laugh riots.
That's okay - laughs aplenty mark John Hubley's brilliant work at UPA, and later, the Mr. Magoos directed by Pete Burness.
Hee was one of the co-founders, with Jack Hannah, of the Character Animation program at the California Institute of the Arts.
He later served as chairman of the Film Arts Department.
T Hee provided the illustrations during the opening credits of The Life of Riley television show of the 1950s.
T. Hee was born on 26 March 1911 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. He was a writer, known for Pinocchio (1940), Variety Girl (1947) and The Parent Trap (1961).
He was married to Patti Price.
He died on 30 October 1988 in Carbon County, Montana, USA.
T. Hee founded, with Jack Hannah, the Character Animation program at the California Institute of the Arts, where he would be chairman of the Film Arts Department.
He ended up contributing to the next generations of animators - from John Lasseter to Tim Burton to the late Joe Ranft - with his teaching at CalArts.T HEE:
Born. March 26, 1911Died. October 30, 1988
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