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 exile is a singular, whereas refugees tend to be thought of in the mass. Armenian refugees, Jewish refugees, refugees from Franco Spain. But a political leader or artistic figure is an exile. Thomas Mann yesterday, Theodorakis today. Exile is the noble and dignified term, while a refugee is more hapless.... What is implied in these nuances of social standing is the respect we pay to choice. The exile appears to have made a decision, while the refugee is the very image of helplessness.”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)
“Yet I shall never return to the past, that attic.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)