| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 33.1

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Book Review

Class Struggle in Hollywood, 1930–1950: Moguls, Mobsters, Stars, Reds & Trade Unionists. By Gerald Horne. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. xiii + 331 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $45, cloth; $22.95, paper.)

^"Class Struggle in Hollywood," concludes Gerald Horne in his book of the same name, "may be the greatest story never told--by the studios" (p. 240). Nor is it likely to be seen in the cinema, despite the fact that it has sex, violence, gangsters, red-baiting, a cast of famous stars, and a tough-talking, honorable, yet flawed, protagonist. Horne describes the post-World War II travails of the Conference of Studio Unions (CSU), a progressive, noncommunist union of studio painters and carpenters, led by Herb Sorrell ("I love to hear the cracking of bones on a scab's legs") in a Hollywood about to enter Red Scare (p. 17). Beset not just by the film moguls, but the rival, mobster-dominated International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), the local police, and the growing virulence of anticommunism, the ill-fated CSU desperately battled to survive a brutal strike in 1945 and a protracted lockout in 1946, before ultimately succumbing to the film industry onslaught. . . .

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