Blacklisted Hollywood Screenwriter Norma Barzman Dies at 103

Barzman, known for her work on films like 'Never Say Goodbye', was an active voice against the Hollywood blacklist and authored a memoir about her experiences.

• Norma Barzman, a prominent screenwriter who was blacklisted due to her involvement with the American Communist Party, died Sunday at her Beverly Hills home at the age of 103.
• Barzman was known for her work on films such as 'Never Say Goodbye' and 'The Locket', and for her involvement in getting credits restored for blacklisted writers.
• She and her husband, Ben Barzman, moved to Europe during the McCarthy era, living in London, Paris and Mougins, France between 1949 and 1976.
• Barzman was an active voice against the Hollywood blacklist, protesting against honorary Oscar recipient Elia Kazan in 1998, and helping to organize an exhibit on the Hollywood Blacklist at the Academy in 2001.
• She authored 'The Red and the Blacklist: The Intimate Memoir of a Hollywood Expatriate', which documents her experience as a blacklisted writer.

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