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![]() ![]() ![]() While Parker had avoided ending up on the list during the 1940s, she had been a frequent outspoken critic of the House Committee on Un-American Activities for their persecution of suspected Communists throughout the decade, and she evidently knew that it was really only a matter of time before she would be picked as a target by them. ![]() She also co-wrote the screenplay to the Alfred Hitchcock film Saboteur.Ī staunch believer in left-wing politics and social justice causes, Parker's screenwriter career was effectively ended when her political views got her placed on The Hollywood Blacklist in 1950. She also collaborated with various people on occasional plays and screenplays, most often her husband, Alan Campbell (with whom she would have a quite tempestuous relationship until his death in 1963), sharing an Academy Award nomination for the screenplay of the original A Star Is Born. Some of her shorter works are flat-out memorized in certain circles, and her influence remains in the Pop-Cultural Osmosis for tropes about non-ideal love. Her written works specialized in cynicism related to love and romance, how they don't seem to work in practice as they do in idealistic works, and how even people who know this still want love and romance. Dorothy Parker, after being asked to use "horticulture" in a sentence.ĭorothy Parker (Aug– June 7, 1967) was an American poet, critic, and satirist, known for her biting wit. ![]()
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