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2 unusual facts about Ian McLellan Hunter


Hannah Weinstein

Weinstein hired American writers who had been blacklisted by the House UnAmerican Activities Committee hearings (Waldo Salt, Ring Lardner Jr., Ian McLellan Hunter and others), using pseudonyms, and instituted elaborate security measures to ensure that the writers' true identities remained secret.

Ian McLellan Hunter

He wrote the screenplays for over twenty films, including Footlight Fever (1941), The Amazing Mr. X (1948) and Mastermind (1976), as well as episodes of the popular television series The Defenders and the teleplay for the 1982 miniseries The Blue and the Gray.



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