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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Bessie Smith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Bessie Smith (April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937) in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA was the most popular and successful blues singer of 1920s and 30s, and a huge influence on the singers who followed her.
Shortly after her death, Hammond stirred up controversy by suggesting, in a Down Beat article, that Smith was refused admittance to a white hospital and that she died as a consequence thereof.
Smith was in fact still alive when she was brought to the hospital, in the middle of the night, but she never regained consciousness, and died that morning at 11:50.
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 Bessie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bessie (lake monster) — a lake monster in lake Erie
Alvah Bessie — screenwriter fllisted as part of the Hollywood Ten
In the science fiction television series Doctor Who, Bessie was the third Doctor's souped-up yellow Edwardian roadster.
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 Alvah Bessie
lvah Bessie was an American novelist and journalist who wrote screenplays for Warner Brothers as well as other studios in the mid and late 40s.
Bessie was a member of the International Brigades and fought in the Spanish Civil War in 1938.
His career ended in 1947 when he was summoned before the House Un-American Activities Committee and by 1950, he had been named one of the Hollywood Ten and was imprisoned and fllisted.
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 Alvah Bessie
Bessie held strong left-wing views and during the Spanish Civil War was a member of the
Bessie appeared before the HUAC on 28th October, 1947, but like, Herbert Biberman, Lester Cole, Albert Maltz, Adrian Scott, Dalton Trumbo, Edward Dmytryk, Ring Lardner Jr., Samuel Ornitz and John Howard Lawson, he refused to answer any questions.
The House of Un-American Activities Committee and the courts during appeals disagreed and all were found guilty of contempt of Congress and Bessie was sentenced to twelve months in Texarkarna Prison and fined $1,000.
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 MetroActive Movies | Screenwriting
Bessie, who co-founded Shire Films in 1979, came to Santa Cruz after several decades in the Southern California film industry, where he animated Tom and Jerry cartoons for MGM and produced both TV commercials and children's programming.
Bessie's colorful family--dad Alvah Bessie was infamous as one of the Hollywood Ten--has been captured in a book he's just finished.
I've known Bessie for over 15 years, and he's that rare creature who can zero in on technical problems with structure, plot and character-building without destroying your zest for the project.
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 THE BLACKLISTED JOURNALIST,REMEMBERING ALVAH BESSIE 'ARE YOU NOW OR HAVE YOU EVER BEEN.. .' BY ALLAN WINANS
Bessie talked about a film that was made about the National Maritime Union, which showed for the first time that American men and women were capable not only of building airplanes together but of flying them.
Bessie said that like other members of The Hollywood Ten, he had been forced to live in relative obscurity, ignored by the literary establishment, who had turned their backs on him.
Alvah Bessie died in early 1985,at the age of 81.
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 Gtweekly.com - Santa Cruz, CA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
On March 30, Bessie will bring his bride to Santa Cruz, his old stomping ground, for a visit, and a book reading/talk at Capitola Book Café, where the lovebirds will introduce the two new loves of their lives, their recent books.
His previous book, of which he likely “enjoyed the process,” was “Rare Birds—An American Family,” which puts a fascinating magnifying glass look on his extraordinary family including his father Alvah Bessie, a screenwriter who was a part of the fllisted Hollywood 10, and his prominent puppeteering uncle Harry Burnett, among others.
Bessie’s new release, “Reeling Through Hollywood,” published by his Blue Lupin Press, took about two years to write, and while penning it, he’d bounce concepts, chapters and such, off his wife, to get feedback.
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 Wallace Baine, Baine Street: How to be wealthy without getting rich - - - March 26, 2006
Bessie, who lived in Santa Cruz for 20 years before moving to, ahem, cheaper environs in the mountains, thinks of wealth in different terms.
Alvah Bessie was a member of the Communist Party and was flballed from working in Hollywood, even serving time for contempt of Congress.
Dan Bessie doesn't fly the hammer and sickle, but he did serve as producer on "Executive Action," a 1973 film starring Burt Lancaster that put forth a shadowy conspiracy behind the JFK assassination.
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 MMI Book Review: Rare Birds-An American Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
His great grandfather Adolphe Bessie fought in the Civil War, leaving behind a vivid image in an 1862 photograph for his little Brooklyn descendant to remember him by.
His great aunt Henrietta Bessie grew up to marry a Prussian womanizer who brought women home during his wife's seemingly continuous pregnancies.
Dan Bessie made the film "Turnabout" as a tribute to Uncle Harry & partner Forman Brown & their theatrical troupe which included the great character actresses Elsa Lanchester & Dorothy Neumann.
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 SOUTHERN KENTUCKY FESTIVAL OF BOOK
His uncle Leo Burnett was one of the most successful advertising executives creating Tony the Tiger, the Jolly Green Giant and the Marlboro Man. His cousin, Michael Bessie began a publishing career at Harper's and later founded Atheneum.
Bessie's father, Alvah Bessie, was a screenwriter and was fllisted as one of the Hollywood Ten.
Bessie currently lives on a rustic farm in Calaveras County, California.
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 Harless Homepage - Person Page 164
     Bessie Harless is the daughter of John C. Harless and Bessie Burgess.
He was the son of Floyd Alvah Heavener and Louisa Frances Long.
She was the daughter of Floyd Alvah Heavener and Louisa Frances Long.
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And so you came to think of something Abraham Lincoln had said: "The strongest bond of human sympathy, outside of the family relation, should be one of uniting all working people, of all nations, and tongues, and kindreds."
Alvah Bessie, Men in Battle (New York, VALB, 1939), p.
Alvah Bessie The Heart of Spain (New York, VALB, 1952), p.
www.macalester.edu /courses/hist90/six.html   (1202 words)

  
 Rare Birds
Another Dan Bessie (Pop's cousin) claimed the original family name was de Bessie and that Adolphe's father, a French diamond cutter living in Belgium, did a big job for the Czar of Russia and spent back-wrenching months hunched over his workbench under the scrutiny of hawkeyed guards.
I now suspect that the Bessies were sprinkled up and down the Flemish corridor, from Amsterdam, through Belgium, and into northern France.
A double funeral was held, one across the street from the other, the mayor's son in a hearse, Johnny in a delivery truck.
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 Quotations from Alvah Bessie ALVAH BESSIE famous people. quote quotes
Quotations from Alvah Bessie ALVAH BESSIE famous people.
If you do good, it means the lives of several thousand men, so do good.
(Alvah Bessie, Ranald MacDougall, Lester Cole, and Raoul Walsh.
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 Blacklisted in Hollywood
An example of Communist influence in the movie industry in Hollywood was the contribution to the script for "Action in the North Atlantic," a film in which an airplane appeared that frightened the crew until they saw that it was a Soviet Plane.
Bessie was not programmed to create Marxist tracts.
Maltz had incurred the wrath of other Communists in Hollywood, including Alvah Bessie, for complaining that the Communist Party was too supportive of restricting intellectual freedom, a freedom he thought to be part of the Marxist ideal.
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 Bessie Books, Book Price Comparison at 130 bookstores
by Alvah Cecil Bessie Albert Prago Alvah Bessie
When Bessie Coleman was a child, she wanted to be in school -- not in the cotton fields of Texas, helping her family earn money.
The mystery of Glen and Bessie Hyde is whitewater navigation's equivalent to Mallory and Irvine's disappearance on Everest in 1924.
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 Ring Lardner
Lardner appeared before the HUAC on 30th October, 1947, but like Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, Albert Maltz, Adrian Scott, Dalton Trumbo, Lester Cole, Edward Dmytryk, Samuel Ornitz and John Howard Lawson, he refused to answer any questions.
The other nine were Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, Lester Cole, John Howard Lawson, Albert Maltz, Samuel Ornitz, Adrian Scott, Dalton Trumbo and Edward Dmytryk.
He was eventually jailed with nine others: Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, Lester Cole, Edward Dmytryk, John Howard Lawson, Albert Maltz, Sam Ornitz, Robert Adrian Scott and Dalton Trumbo.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAlardner.htm   (1847 words)

  
 John Howard Lawson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
During their interviews they named several individuals whom they accused of holding left-wing views.
Lawson appeared before the HUAC on October 29, 1947, but like Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, Albert Maltz, Adrian Scott, Dalton Trumbo, Lester Cole, Edward Dmytryk, Samuel Ornitz and Ring Lardner Jr, he refused to answer any questions.
Known as the Hollywood Ten, they claimed that the First Amendment of the United States Constitution gave them the right to do this.
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 Alvah Bessie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
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 Alvah Bessie Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
From an American perspective, the Abraham Lincoln Brigade is arguably the most famous group of soldiers to fight in the Spanish Civil War.
Hollywood screenwriter Alvah Bessie (who was later fllisted as part of the Hollywood Ten) was a foot soldier with the Brigade and kept a riveting handwritten diary of his activities in four pocket notebooks....
by Roger Vercel, Rockwell Kent, Alvah Cecil Bessie
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 History News Network
A friend of mine, Alvah Bessie, was one of those who was jailed for one year for not responding to McCarthy's questions.
Alvah's 10 months in prison were a result of the House hearing.
It all happened during the McCarthy era, and though his name became associated with fllisting, McCarthy had nothing to do with investigating Hollywood.
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 The Hollywood Ten
American novelist and journalist Alvah Bessie wrote screenplays for Warner Brothers and other studios during the mid and late '40s.
No stranger to soldiering, Bessie had been a member of the International Brigades, and fought in the Spanish Civil War in 1938.
He refused to deny or confirm involvement in the Communist Party, and in 1950 he became one of the Hollywood Ten when he was imprisoned and fllisted.
www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/blacklist.html   (2650 words)

  
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Here was something that could make you mad again, and the decent human being finds it difficult to harbor hatred in his heart for any considerable length of time.
Alvah Bessie, Men in Battle (New York, Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, 1939), p.
A different reason, of course, I was trying to get the hell out of Georgia before some cracker shot the hell out of me. I was running but when I got north, I found those crackers waiting for me."
www.macalester.edu /courses/hist90/four.html   (2707 words)

  
 Tomfolio.com: Military, Spanish Civil War
Bessie, Alvah Men in Battle Publisher: Los Angeles: Pinnacle Books, 1977 2nd ptg.
paperback: Good+ [text is age browned; else G+] Originally published in 1939, Bessie’s book is a memoir of the over 3,000 American volunteers who fought as the Abraham Lincoln Brigade alongside Spanish government Loyalists against the fascists in the Spanish Civil War.
Bessie, Alvah Cecil/ Bessie, Dan (Edt)/ Bessie, Dan Alvah Bessie's Spanish Civil War Notebooks Publisher: Univ Kentucky Press.
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 Notes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Into The Heart of the Fire: The British in the Spanish Civil War.
BESSIE, A. Alvah Bessie's Spanish Civil War notebooks.
NELSON, C. The Aura of the Cause: A Photo Album for North American Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War.
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 BESSIE DAN (in MARION)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Alvah Bessie's Spanish Civil War notebooks / edited by Dan Bessie.
Rare birds : an American family / Dan Bessie.
The immune system, your magic doctor : a guide to the immune system for the curious of all ages / by Helen Garvy ; illustrated by Dan Bessie.
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 ONE FOR MY BABY. - BESSIE, ALVAH   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
A later novel by Bessie, and considered by many as one of his best.
Story of the comedy nightclub circuit in the 50's.
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 California Film Institute
Dan Bessie, son of Alvah Bessie, in Person!
This early post-war drama brilliantly treats the end of Nazism in swanky surroundings, crawling with German traitors (Peter Lorre and Raymond Massey) and a mysterious man on the lam.
Written by Alvah Bessie, one of the fllisted Hollywood Ten.  Director: Peter Godfrey  (US 1945) 98 min.
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 Alvah Bessie
Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos
Warner Bros. screenwriter whose career was ended when he was named one of the "Hollywood Ten." Bessie was sentenced to one year in prison and, unlike most of his fellow victims, never worked in the US film industry again.
His son Dan wrote and directed the feature film, "Hard Traveling" (1986), adapted from Bessie's book "Bread and a Stone".
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 ChiaroScuro DVD-Collection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Features: 2 Classic Warner Brothers Wartime Shorts, Tanks Are Coming, The (1941) with George Tobias, Richard Travis and Gig Young and Rear Gunner, The (1943) with Burgess Meredith and Ronald Reagan Raoul Walsh profile
Review: A classic Hollywood platoon movie (from a story by Alvah Bessie), with Flynn and his men parachuting into Burma to wipe out a key Japanese radio station.
The taut action, sparse dialogue, and faultless technique keep things moving so fast that there's no time to reflect upon the morality of war or the miraculous way in which Flynn and his men survive against such overwhelming odds.
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