Edward Huebsch, AKA "Eddie Huebsch" and "Ed Huebsch," was a 20th-century American Communist screenwriter whose career was cut short by the Hollywood blacklist.
18 Facts About Edward Huebsch
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Edward Huebsch was born on February 20,1914, in New York City.
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In 1942 following the December 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Huebsch volunteered to serve in the United States Army.
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Edward Huebsch moved to Los Angeles in 1946 after receiving his discharge and spending some time with family in New York.
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Edward Huebsch became a screenwriter, whose career took off in the late 1940s.
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Edward Huebsch often adapted books to film, as in Best Man Wins, adapted from a story by Mark Twain.
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Edward Huebsch joined the League of American Writers, a Popular Front group organized by the Communist Party in 1935 and disbanded in 1943.
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The marshal talked to Mrs Edward Huebsch and was informed that her husband would be home later that same date.
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We stayed around the place until fairly late at night, and Mr Edward Huebsch did not return.
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Inquiries around the neighborhood disclosed that the next day Mrs Edward Huebsch loaded the station wagon up and left.
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Edward Huebsch was in one of the groups I was in and he was a writer.
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In May 1952, Edward Huebsch joined 14 others in writing a letter to the Screen Writers Guild that urged the guild to stand up for credits to Paul Jarrico as screenwriter for the movie The Las Vegas Story.
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On March 23,1953, Huebsch himself appeared before HUAC, counseled by William B Esterman.
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On March 25,1953, Huebsch returned for testimony, this time counseled not only by Esterman but Daniel G Marshall.
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Edward Huebsch began by correcting the committee, saying he had not asked for no televisions but for a quashing of his subpoena.
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Edward Huebsch was equally aggressive, calling committee chairman Harold Velde "King Harold Velde".
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In 1977, Edward Huebsch tried to make a comeback with Twighlight's Last Gleaming, directed by Robert Aldrich.
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Edward Huebsch died age 68 on July 7,1982, in Los Angeles, California.