I'm glad this thread was posted. I've read and watched a lot of old newsreel footage on the Hollywood Ten over the years.
I'm watching the movie "Trumbo", starring Bryan Cranston as Dalton Trumbo, right now. The number of scripts he and his blacklisted writer friends wrote under pseudonyms for King pictures is astounding, before he was approached by Kirk Douglas and Otto Preminger to write legitimately again.
He had the tenacious conviction to stand up for his ideology and friends while making sure his family had the necessities. Shame on him!
His son became the go-to expert on Hollywood blacklisting before he died too. I see we already have a thread on him as well. It's nice that he, like his father, shared his knowledge of blacklisting instead of running from it.
I also just found this article about how Trumbo's daughters, Mitzi and Nikoli, were involved in the film to ensure accuracy:
http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1.../p2p-84929987/
P.S. Hedda Hopper--what a bitch!