The Red and the Blacklist: The Intimate Memoir of a Hollywood Expatriate [*SIGNED*]

New York: Thunder's Mouth Press / Nation Books. Fine in Fine dj. (c.2003). First Edition. Hardcover. [a lovely, as-new copy, with no significant wear to either book or dust jacket]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page: "For ______ / With friendship / & fondness / Norma." One of the best Hollywood blacklist memoirs, a book that "fizzes with the wit and energy found in the classic Hollywood comedies of the forties. But it is also laced with the fear and claustrophobia found in the forties film noirs [sic], as Norma and Ben [Barzman, her screenwriter husband] are driven from Hollywood -- during the post-war McCarthyite witch hunt -- into an emotionally difficulty thirty-year exile in France. [The book] is also a unique record of the political tempests of the time, marked by the author's dazzling power of reflection and insight, and animated by a larger than life cast of supporting characters including Pablo Picasso, Harold Robbins, Sophia Loren, Charlton Heston, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Losey, John Wayne, Anthony Quinn, Groucho Marx, and -- in a delightful cameo -- a very young Marilyn Monroe." ****NOTE that additional postage charges will be assessed for international shipping of this moderately heavy book; if this concerns you, please contact us for a shipping quote before placing your order. As always at ReadInk, domestic Media Mail shipping is free.**** Signed by Author .