Dorothy Parker
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Parker was a very important screenwriter in the 1930s and 40s. She wrote some incredible screenplays for Alfred Hitchcock but was accused of having ties to Communism, which destroyed her career pretty much instantly. In 1949, Parker received a 1,000-word letter, acknowledging her blacklisting for reasons tied to suspicion.
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