THE NEW YORK REPORT



NY FILE NO.: 100-98813
THIS CASE ORIGINATED AT: Los Angeles
REPORT MADE AT: New York
DATE WHEN MADE: Aug. 15, 1950
PERIOD FOR WHICH MADE: 7/20; 8/1; 8/2; 8/3; 8/4; 8/7/50
REPORT MADE BY: [Name censored by the FBI]
TITLE: Judy Holliday, wa. Judy Tuvim
CHARACTER OF CASE: Security Matter - C


SYNOPSIS OF FACTS:
Informants report subject active in numerous Communist fronts during 1947 through 1950 in New York City.


DETAILS:

Residence
The 1950 New York Telephone Directory for the borough of Manhattan reflects the following listing for Judy Holliday: An anonymous call to Celebrity Service, Inc., 150 East 54th Street, New York City, on August 3, 1950, disclosed that Judy Holliday is presently in California where she is making a motion picture.

Communist Activities
According to "Red Channels", the publication which reports the Communist influence in radio and television and is published by "Counterattack", the newsletter of Facts to Combat Communism, 55 West 42nd Street, New York City, Judy Holliday, who is described as an actress of screen, stage, radio and television, has been reported as associated with the following organizations, as indicated:


APPROVED AND FORWARDED: [Appears to be a stamped signature of Edward Scheidt] SPECIAL AGENT IN CHARGE

COPIES OF THIS REPORT:
5 - Bureau
3 - Los Angeles (Enc. 1)
2 - New York



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National Council of the Arts, Sciences and Professions


Signer. Advertisement in support of Hollywood Ten. "Variety", December 1, 1948. Nominated for office, Theater Division Rally, Hotel Woodstock, New York City, on September 20, 1948, "New York Times".

The National Council of the Arts, Sciences and Professions was cited by the 1949 report of the California Committee on Un-American Activities as one of the most important Communist front organizations in the country.

People's Songs, Inc.


Member of the the Board of Sponsors. Bulletin of People's Songs, May, 1947. Sent Birthday Greetings. Bulletin of People's Songs dated February 3, 1947, page 19.

The California Committee on Un-American Acivities report of 1948, page 392, reflects the following:

People's Songs, Inc. was cited as a Communist front which was incorporated Janauary 31, 1946 in New York City. "All of the productions of People's Songs, Inc. follow the Communist Party line as assiduously as do the people behind the organization".

[Name or names censored by the FBI] advised that People's Songs, Inc. furnished entertainment at Communist Party functions and sells records and songs stressing the Communist Party line.

Stop Censorship Committee


The subject was a speaker by recording at a rally held at the Hotel Astor, New York City, on March 23, 1948. "New York Herald Tribune", March 24, 1948 and the "Daily Worker" dated March 26, 1948, page 13.

The Stop Censorship Committee was organized in 1948 as a Communist front organization, according to "Counterattack" dated July 1, 1948

It is to be noted that the "Daily Worker" is a daily East Coast Communist newspaper.

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Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace


The subject was listed as a sponsor of this organization in their official program dated March, 1949.

[Name censored by the FBI] advised that in his opinion the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace held in New York City, March 25-27, 1949, was a followup to the World Congress of Intellectuals held in Wroclaw, Poland in August, 1948, and that the conferences were part of a world-wide Communist inspired "Peace Propaganda Campaign".

The Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace was held under the auspicies of the National Council of the Arts, Sciences and Professions and was widely publicized because of delegates from Russia and other Russian dominated countries. At the time visas were given to these delegates, the State Department announced that it was fully aware of Communist propaganda.

World Federation of Democratic Youth


The subject was listed as sponsor of this organization, according to the Un-American Activities Committee review of Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace, April 19, 1949, page 36.

[Part of this sentence censored by the FBI] the World Federation of Democratic Youth, which is affiliated with the American Youth for a Free World, is a known Communist Party front organization with headquarters in Paris, France.

The Congressional Committee on Un-American Activities, report No. 271, April 17, 1947, pages 12 and 13, stated the following:

"The World Federation of Democratic Youth, which was founded in London in November, 1945 by delegates from over 50 nations.....From the outset the World Federation of Democratic Youth demonstrated that it was far more intrested in serving as a pressure group in behalf of Soviet foreign


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policy than it was in the specific problems of international youth.....So strong was the Communist domination at this London conference that it aroused the deepest concern of English Bishops".

Moscow Art Theater


Sent greetings, 1948. Un-American Committee Review of Scientific and Cultural Conferences for World Peace, page 49.

Save the Voice of Freedom Committee


Subject was listed as vice-chairman, the Dinner Program, March 5, 1949.

The California Committee on Un-American Activities report dated 1948, page 192, declared that the Voice of Freedom Committee was a Communist front "whose function is the support of commentators who have received the acclaim of the Communist press.

Council on African Affairs


The subject was listed as a participant at a rally of the above organization, according to the "Daily Worker" dated May 23, 1946, page 5.

It has been noted that the Council on African Affairs was declared by the Attorney General as one of those organizations coming within the purview of Executive Order 9835.

Civil Rights Congress


Supporter. "Counterattack", October 28, 1948, page 4.

The Civil Rights Congress was declared by the Attorney General as one of the organizations coming within the purview of Executive Order 9835.

New York Council of the Arts, Sciences and Professions


Entertainer, Carnival and Dance, Hotel Capital, March 25, 1950, according to the "Daily Worker" dated March 21, 1950


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It is to be noted the the New York Council of the Arts, Sciences and Professions are affiliated with the National Council of the Arts, Sciences and Professions which was previously mentioned.

The "Daily Worker" dated April 19, 1945, carried the following:

11th Anniversary, American Birobidjan Committee. All star program scheduled April 22, 8:30 P.M. at Carnegie Hall, for the benefit of 4500 orphans now in Stalingrad and Birobidjan. Judy Holliday was listed as one of the entertainers for this program.

The House of Representatives' Committee on Un-American Activities in its report of May 29, 1946, page 2, stated the Ambidjan Committee for Emergency Aid to the Soviet Union, also known as the American Birobidjan, was cited as a Communist front by the Special Committee on Un-American Activities in its report of March 29, 1944.

[The entire next paragraph has been censored by the FBI.]

The Joint Anti-Facist Refugee Committee was declared by the Attorney General as one of the organizations falling within the purview of Executive Order 9835.

[Name censored by the FBI.] of known reliability, stated that Judy Holliday was listed on the program as vice-chairman of the Dinner Committee of "Save the Voice of Freedom Dinner" to be held in the Florentine Room of the Park Central Hotel, 55th Street and Seventh Avenue, on Wednesday, March 5, 1947, at 7 o'clock.

[The entire next paragraph has been censored by the FBI.]

The issue of "PM" dated March 19, 1946 carried an article which stated that Judy Holliday was one of the members of the Dinner Committee for a dinner of the Spanish Refugee Appeals at the Waldorf Astoria, held on March 18, 1946.

According to the California Committee on Un-American Activities, report 1949, the Spanish Refugee Appeal is a Communist front activity with addresses at 111 Ellis Street, San Francisco, and 808 South Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, which collaborates with the JAFRC in fund raising and agitation in California.


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[The first two paragraphs on this page have been censored by the FBI.]

The May 28, 1946 issue of the "Daily Worker" carried an article stating that six radio programs during the next ten days would contain appeals on behalf of "famine-stricken Africans". It stated that Judy Holliday, star of "Born Yesterday", was to appear on "This Woman's World" over station WMCA. The above-mentioned program was arranged by the Council on African Affairs.

[The next two paragraphs and part of a third have been censored by the FBI.]

...a letter from the People's Songs, Inc., 126 West 21 Street, New York City, and that the letterhead of this organization stated Judy Holliday was on the Board of Sponsors of People's Songs, Inc.


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The letterhead of the "Voice of Freedom Committee" dated January 15, 1949 and June 3, 1949, [Name censored by the FBI.] of known reliability, reflects that Judy Holliday was listed as one of the sponsors of the Voice of Freedom Committee.

The 1949 report of the California Committee on Un-American Activities, page 500, reflects that Judy Holliday was a sponsor of the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace, and that she has, in the past, been "affiliated with from one to ten Communist fronts".

[Name censored by the FBI] made available during March, 1949 a copy of the final program for the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace, which was held under the auspices of the National Council of Arts, Sciences and Professions, held at the Waldorf Astoria on March 25, 26, 27, 1949. This program lists Judy Holliday as one of its sponsors.

The "Daily Worker" dated March 13, 1949, page 13, stated that Judy Holliday, star of "Born Yesterday", was one of the sponsors at a meeting of the Fine Arts Panel of the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace, held Sunday morning, March 27, 1949 at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel.

[The entire next paragraph has been censored by the FBI.]

In the May 9, 1949 issue of the "Daily Worker", page 11, column 3, there appeared an article which stated that Judy Holliday was a sponsor of the "Enroll for Peace" luncheon on May 10, 1949 at the Essex House. This luncheon was under the auspices of the Women's Committee of the National Council of the Arts, Sciences and Professions.

In the May 24, 1949 issue of the "Daily Worker" on page 4, column 2, appeared the following:

"250 leaders call parlay to defend 12". Judy Holliday was listed as one of the persons endorsing a conference for civil rights and in defense of the 12 Communist leaders to be held at the City Center Casino, 135


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West 55th Street, on June 25, 1949. This conference was called by the Civil Rights Congress. The call, which was endorsed by the subject, states: "If these 12 men are convicted, it will mean that every American will be deprived of the right to judge and choose, according to his own best interests, what political party to support, what books he may read, what beliefs he may hold".

[Name censored by the FBI.] that he had observed a memorandum dated June 11, 1949 which bore the letterhead of National Council of the Arts, Sciences and Professions, Inc., 49 West 44th Street, New York City, and was addressed to the Executive Board, of which Miss Judy Holliday was a member.

The "Daily Worker" of September 2, 1949, page 4, columns 1 and 2, carried the following: "Stage and Screen Notables Demand Peekskill Probe". This article stated that "a group of 22 outstanding theatrical and newspaper personalities yesterday bitterly assailed the lynch attack of a scheduled concert by Paul Robeson near Peekskill last Saturday as a re-enactment of the Nazi assault on culture and human life, and strongly demanded action by Governor Thomas E. Dewey to apprehend and prosecute the mobsters". Among the signers was included the name Judy Holliday.

[Name censored by the FBI.] advised that the Peekskill disorder of August 27, 1949 in the vicinity of Peekskill, New York, resulted from a concert given by singer Paul Robeson in the area. This informant stated that the concert was held under the auspices of the Harlem Division of the Civil Rights Congress.

[Name censored by the FBI.] but who has furnished reliable information in the past regarding Communist infiltration of the radio and movie industry, stated on January 26, 1950 that he considered Judy Holliday pro-Communist in her views. This informant did not elaborate as to why he considered the subject pro-Communist.

[The entire next paragraph has been censored by the FBI.]

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[Name censored by the FBI.] that Judy Holliday attended the above mentioned dance-carnival at the Hotel Capital on April 15, 1950.

[Name or names censored by the FBI.] who are acquainted with Communist activities in this area, stated that they could furnish no additional information regarding the subject's Communist activities in New York City.

The records of the Bureau of Special Services and Investigation, New York City Police Department, were reviewed by SAC [Name censored by the FBI.] and contained no additional information regarding the subject's Communist activities.


ENCLOSURE TO LOS ANGELES (1):
1. One photograph of Judy Holliday that appeared in "Players' Guide".

--REFERRED UPON COMPLETION TO THE OFFICE OF ORIGIN--


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[The FBI has chosen to entirely withhold pages 10 and 11 of this document.]