Eric Johnston Hollywood Dinner Speech

Eric Johnston Hollywood Dinner Speech WS INT hotel ballroom, guests seated at tables applaud; ‘Picture Pioneers Class of 1947’ glittery sign above head table. MPAA President Eric Johnston speech “Gentlemen, we’ve been ‘Xd’. We’ve been excised by the British, excluded from some of the Iron Curtain countries, and X-rayed for Communism by the House Un-American Activities Committee...” Russia “hates first of all the American motion picture...the wrath of the American people cannot be taken too lightly; that wrath is going to increase should our relations with Russia grow worse...” Applause. HUAC; Anti-Communist; Anti-Communism; Witch hunts; Cold War; Hollywood; Motion Pictures; Industry;