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Albert Maltz

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By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching.


— Albert Maltz


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And Marx spoke of the fact that socialism will be the kingdom of freedom, where man realizes himself in a way that humankind has never seen before. This was an inspiring body of literature to read.


— Albert Maltz


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By the time I came down from Yale, I was already more radicalized and had begun to read New Masses.


— Albert Maltz


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Every murder turns on a bright hot light, and a lot of people... have to walk out of the shadows.


— Albert Maltz


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I graduated in 1930 and I went up to the Yale Drama School for two years.


— Albert Maltz


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About Albert Maltz






Did you know about Albert Maltz?

For his script for the 1945 film Pride of the Marines Maltz was nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay. However due to his blacklisting at the time fellow MPAA screenwriter Michael Blankfort agreed to put his own name on the script in place of Maltz's as the only way to get it accepted by any of the Hollywood movie studios and as such Blankfort was named the winner. At the Theater Union he met Margaret Larkin whom he married in 1937.

Henry Award for "The Happiest Man on Earth" a short story publiAlbert Maltzd in Harper's Magazine. For his script for the 1945 film Pride of the Marines Maltz was nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay. Maltz worked as a playwright for the Theatre Union during the early 1930s and wrote his first of eighteen screenplays for Hollywood in 1932.

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