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Born: 20 October 1895 Died: 24 August 1985
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Anti-communists who were once Marxists
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1. His Girl Friday (1940)
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3. My Man Godfrey (1936)
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4. Animal Crackers (1930)
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1. Hollywood on Trial (1976)
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Anti-communists who were once Marxists (11 person items)"For many years he had been a member of the Socialist Party of America, and during the 1930s he participated in Party-sponsored activities, even performing sketches at antiwar events, but split with the Party's "Old Guard faction" led by Louis Waldman. His politics soon moved to the right. In 1940, Ryskind abandoned the Democratic Party, and he opposed President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's pursuit of a third term, writing the campaign song for that year's Republican Party presidential nominee Wen"