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Podcast: Breaking Walls: The Podcast on the History of American Network Radio Broadcasting
Episode: BW - EP140—008: Humphrey Bogart On The Air—HUAC
Description: In 1947 Humphrey Bogart signed a new Warner Brothers contract. It gave him limited script refusal and the right to form his own production company. He and Bacall soon made the thriller Dark Passage based on the 1946 novel of the same name by David Goodis. Critics gave the film, and Bogart’s performance mixed reviews, but generally praised Bacall and the cinematography.
On the eve of Thanksgiving, as NBC broadcast News of the World with Morgan Beatty, the United States was a country in transition.
World War two had created fundamental changes in society. While men of all races and creeds we...