page_title: Edward Huebsch
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Edward Huebsch / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: Screenshot of Grace Kelly and Gary Cooper from the trailer of the film w:en:High Noon
context_page_description: Edward Huebsch, AKA "Eddie Huebsch" and "Ed Huebsch," was a 20th-century American Communist screenwriter whose career was cut short by the Hollywood blacklist.
context_section_description: In 1980, Victor Navasky named Huebsch as a communist with the following passage in his book Naming Names with regard to Carl Foreman, a fellow American screenwriter:     
   
   Another party interested in Foreman's testimony was the CP itself.  They sent the screenwriter Eddie Huebsch to interview Foreman:  
   I was assigned by the Party to find out what Foreman's testimony was going to be.  I had lunch with him--he was doing High Noon at the time.  I sat for eleven hours with him. We went to Lucy's, the fanciest restaurant in Hollywood--across from Paramount.  I could not get him to assert that he would take an anti-Communist position.  So I reported that he was an informer.  Nothing he has said then or since has convinced me I was wrong...  The main point is, Carl wouldn't tell the Commies to go fuck themselves...  I would have recommended expulsion.   
       
       Also in 1980, Ceplair and Englund mentioned Huebsch as one of those dodged subpoenas, recalled in 1999 by fellow screenwriter Bernard Gordon in a specific incident:    
   
   An especially odious instance of this kind of hysteria occurred close to home at a meeting of the Screen Writers Guild in Hollywood.  A good friend of mine, Edward Huebsch, was ducking a subpoena from HUAC but decided to attend a guild meeting because a discussion of the guild and the blacklist was scheduled.  Outside the meeting hall, Eddie spotted the federal marshal who had been trying to serve him.  Eddie ducked into the hall and saw the marshal was trying to follow him into the closed meeting.  Eddie immediately asked the chair to have the marshal barred, because only member of the guild were permitted.  One of the right-wing members raised a point of order and moved the marshal be given temporary membership in the guild and be permitted to enter the hall.  This was promptly scheduled; the chair called for a vote... The members voted in favor of the motion.  The marshal walked over and served Eddie the subpoena.  
    Interpreting the meaning of this event, Gordon concluded:  "It means that the fear of the consequences were so pervasive for anyone who was seen to opposed the extreme right wing that no one dared to take such a stand openly" and opposed the blacklisting.
  In 1997, the Writers Guild of America included Huebsch among 24 films that used pseudonyms (or "fronts") for true writers.  In 2000, the Writers Guild of America West issued further corrected blacklist credits that included Huebsch:  
   
   LITTLE GIANTS (Producciones Olmeca) 
   Original Credit: Written for the Screen by Hugo Mozo and Eduardo Bueno. (1958) 
   Corrected Credit: Written for the Screen by Hugo Butler and Edward Huebsch. (04/01/97)
caption: On behalf of the Party, Huebsch interviewed at length fellow screenwriter Carl Foreman, who penned the script for High Noon (here, Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly appear in a scene together)
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