Hollywood Filmmakers Gathered for HUAC Inquiry

(Original Caption) 10/27/47-Washington, DC: The group of Hollywood writers and producers summoned to appear before the House Un-American Activities Committee in probe of communism in the film city, are shown as they left the investigation late today. Front row: Lewis Milestone, Dalton Trumbo, John H. Lawson, who was cited for contempt, and Bartley Crum, attorney for witnesses. Center row: Gordon Kahn, Irving Pichel, Edward Dmytryk, Robert Rossen. Top row: Waldo Salt, Richard Collins, Howard Koch and Albert Maltz; Herbert Biberman; Lester Cole and Ring Lardner, Jr., writers and Martin Popper, another attorney for the group. Photo by G.B. Kress