Gordon Kahn was an American writer and screenwriter who was blacklisted during the McCarthy era; he is the father of broadcaster and author Tony Kahn.
15 Facts About Gordon Kahn
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Gordon Jacques Kahn was born on May 11,1901, in Szigetvar, Hungary.
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In 1918, Kahn graduated from Townsend Harris High School in New York City.
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Gordon Kahn spent the next year at Yale University, then took up studies at Columbia University.
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For much of the 1920s, Gordon Kahn wrote for the New York Daily Mirror.
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In 1930, former Mirror colleague Samuel Marx, invited Gordon Kahn to move to Hollywood and try his luck as a screenwriter.
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Gordon Kahn wrote more than a script a year in a period under two decades.
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Gordon Kahn joined several leftist and liberal causes and helped found the Screen Writers Guild.
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Gordon Kahn was the first managing editor of The Screen Writer.
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In 1947, when the House Un-American Activities Committee began its hearings on "Communist infiltration," Gordon Kahn was one of the "Nineteen Unfriendlies" subpoenaed.
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Gordon Kahn was not called to testify and so did not become one of the Hollywood Ten.
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Gordon Kahn sold his 13-room Beverly Hills home, and he and his family moved into a smaller house in Studio City.
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Gordon Kahn died age 61 on December 31,1962, of a heart attack during a snowstorm in Manchester.
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Gordon Kahn is the subject of his son Tony's 1987 short documentary The Day the Cold War Came Home.
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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.