Talk:Robert Rossen

General

 * Robert Rossen (.filmreference.com) - w. biblio; by Doug Tomlinson
 * Robert Rossen (NY Times) - short; who produced w RR.
 * Robert Rossen (NY Times) - "longer"

Early life
Only scraps about Rossen's personal life. I Googled until I was blue in the face - and no bio of Rossen on Google. I even asked New York University, where Rossen studied, for help but they had nothing. A Very Dangerous Citizen: Abraham Lincoln Polonsky and the Hollywood Left (by Paul Buhle & Dave Wagner) says (p 249) "Rossen has no proper biography" - the book says Casty's book (1969) is the nearest to a bio. --Philcha (talk) 09:33, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Communism & HUAC

 * The Films of Robert Rossen (Alan Casty; Film Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 2; Winter, 1966-1967)
 * [www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/uploads/docs/FSTU7-5-.pdf The Hollywood Left: Robert Rossen and Postwar Hollywood] (Brian Neve; Film Studies, Issue 7, Winter 2005)
 * Red Holly in Transition (Brian Neve; in "Un-American" Hollywood: politics and film in the blacklist era; ed Frank Krutnik)
 * MacCarthysism ... and the Caper Film [Geoff Mayer; in Encyclopedia of film noir, ed Geoff Mayer, Brian McDonnell) - HUAC dashed social aspirations of new NY Jew film & theatre figures.
 * What Was It like to Have a Blacklisted Father? (David Eliscu; Cinema Journal, Vol. 44, No. 4, Summer, 2005)
 * "Un-American" Hollywood (pp 184ff) looks like paydirt. --Philcha (talk) 22:22, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

Reception

 * The Films of Robert Rossen (Alan Casty; Film Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 2; Winter, 1966-1967)
 * Red Holly in Transition (Brian Neve; in "Un-American" Hollywood: politics and film in the blacklist era; ed Frank Krutnik)
 * The Method of Rossen's Late Films (Daniel Millar; Journal of American Studies, Vol. 6, No. 3, Dec., 1972)
 * about RR rewrote The Seawolf
 * A Change of Pattern? (Kenneth Macgowan; Hollywood Quarterly, Vol. 1, No. 2, Jan., 1946) - RR playscript
 * Remembrances of Things Past (Lawrence Sturhahn; The North American Review, Vol. 264, No. 4, Winter, 1979) - asides re Lilith
 * Films of the Year (various; Film Quarterly, Vol. 15, No. 2, Winter, 1961-1962) - re Hustler
 * Abraham Polonsky and "Force of Evil" (William Pechter and Abraham Polonsky; Film Quarterly, Vol. 15, No. 3, Spring, 1962) - RR's contribution
 * The Body Possessed (Dorothea Fischer-Hornung; in Embodying liberation: the Black body in American dance, ed. Dorothea Fischer-Hornung, Alison D. Goeller)
 * A Fastasy Straight Out of Broolyn (Tony Williams; p 42; in The Brooklyn film: essays in the history of filmmaking, ed. John B. Manbeck, Robert Singer)
 * The Vanishing Heroine (Stephen Farber; The Hudson Review, Vol. 27, No. 4, Winter, 1974-1975)
 * Films beginning with B part 2 (guardian) - Body and Soul

Credits

 * Robert Rossen (IMDb)
 * Robert Rossen: Credits (Variety) - and stars etc. for each work

Loose ends
Can anyone help with any of these?

Marriage(s)
(update - will update if/when out sources commented)

Robert Rossen (filmreference.com) says RR married Sue Siegel in 1954. The source is Doug Tomlinson, a researcher & critic, so I'd treat this as reliable: But RR's son Stephen died 2007 at 67, i.e. was born 1940, see Paid Notice: Deaths: Rossem, Stephen, M. in NY Times April 19, 2007. At sometime Stephen wrote about the impact of RR's troubles with the HUAC, which is consistent with Stephen's being a boy at the time. On the other hand Ellen married in 1992 (Weddings; Ellen Rossen, Av Westin, in NY Times October 25, 1992). All this suggests Stephen was the sons by a 1st marriage in the 1930s, while Ellen looks more like a daughter of the 1950s. However, there seems no evidence of a first marriage in the 1930s. --Philcha (talk) 16:56, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Guide to the Jay and Si-lan Chen Leyda Papers 1913-1987
 * Exiles in Hollywood: major European film directors in America p. 233
 * More than a method: trends and traditions in contemporary film performance Page v

Buhle & co's book & quote
At Buhle, Paul and Dave Wagner (2002). Radical Hollywood: The Untold Story Behind America's Favorite Movies. New York, The New Press. ISBN 1565847180. p. 386 - described as Rossen's "triumph and very likely his corruption". The only commentary I can find is Book Review: Radical Hollywood: The Untold Story Behind America, which criticises the quote as unexplained and the book as full of doctrinaire leftism. --Philcha (talk) 22:50, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

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