Events
- May 22 - Great Expectations is premiered in New York.
- November 24 : The United States House of Representatives of the 80th Congress voted 346 to 17 to approve citations for contempt of Congress against the "Hollywood Ten".
- November 25 : The Waldorf Statement is released by the executives of the United States motion picture industry that marks the beginning of the Hollywood blacklist.
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