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Albert Maltz was a playwright and author from the 1930s to the 1980s. He was one of the Hollywood Ten who were jailed in 1950 for their 1947 refusal to testify before the US Congress about their involvement with the US Communist Party. They and many other US entertainment industry figures were subsequently blacklisted, which denied Maltz employment in the industry for many years. He worked regularly as a screenwriter until his blacklisting in the early 1950s. His last script before his blacklisting was The Robe, although he didn't receive a screen credit until decades later. In 1960, Frank Sinatra engaged Maltz to write a screenplay for The Execution of Private Slovik, but in the end Sinatra was pressured into dismissing Maltz from the project. Maltz was finally employed again as a screenwriter on Two Mules for Sister Sara in 1970. Some of his best known works include the screenplay for This Gun For Hire, and The Cross and the Arrow (which he adapted from his own novel). He passed away in 1985 at the age of 76.

Important Added Info: Note that these items (which are two signed letter and a 3-page "memorandum") have each been personally autographed (signed) by Albert Maltz! They were written in 1963 at a time when he was trying to get hired to write the screenplay for "Bebo's Girl", but the memorandum makes it clear he was not enthusiastic about the project, and in fact, he was not hired. Note that these items come from the estate of Paul Kohner, who had a remarkable life! Kohner was born in Czechoslovakia in 1902, and he was a journalist working at his father's newspaper. He came to Hollywood after interviewing Carl Laemmle, who gave him a job as a publicity man. He became the head of Universal's European department in Berlin, and returned to the U.S. in the early 1930s, and left Universal in 1938, becoming a publicity agent. Among his clients were some of the greatest film stars ever, including Greta Garbo, Ingrid Bergman, and also great directors such as John Huston and Billy Wilder. He had close personal friendships with many of his clients, and he saved every bit of correspondence and paper work from his agency! He was married to actress Lupita Tovar from 1932 until his death in 1988. Amazingly, after his death, few institutions showed interest in his immense files, and only a small amount ended up being saved, with a lot literally thrown away! Our consignor purchased the item offered here from Mr. Kohner's estate in 1989, and he has held it until now, when he has consigned several items from Mr. Kohner's estate to eMoviePoster.com, and each item is being auctioned separately.

As is true of all the signed items we are currently auctioning, we give every buyer 30 days in which to review what they purchased and they can return any item as long as it is within 30 days of the end of the auction.

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