Exile's Return
The blacklist was broken in 1960 with the release of two films written by blacklisted Hollywood Ten member Dalton Trumbo, Exodus and Spartacus, which gave Trumbo (one of the most prominent of the Ten) his first screen credits since being blackballed by Hollywood. With the blacklist broken, Berry returned to the U.S. in the early 1960s, where he directed episodes of the TV shows East Side/West Side and Seaway.
He continued to work in France, but again returned to the U.S in the 1970s and directed several films, most notably Claudine (1974), starring Diahann Carroll in an Academy Award-nominated performance, and The Bad News Bears Go to Japan (1978). At the time of his death, he was editing Boesman and Lena, a film version of the Athol Fugard play starring Danny Glover and Angela Bassett.
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Famous quotes containing the words exile and/or return:
“The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is just as complex, often ambivalent, and in general it is understood completely only when it is broken: by exile or emigration in the case of one’s country, by retirement in the case of a trade or profession.”
—Primo Levi (1919–1987)
“The emancipation of today displays itself mainly in cigarettes and shorts. There is even a reaction from the ideal of an intellectual and emancipated womanhood, for which the pioneers toiled and suffered, to be seen in painted lips and nails, and the return of trailing skirts and other absurdities of dress which betoken the slave-woman’s intelligent companionship.”
—Sylvia Pankhurst (1882–1960)