Fifty years ago the Academy Award for best picture was given to “West Side Story”, the musical that originated on Broadway that had obvious New Deal popular cultural antecedents. It was co-directed by Jerome Robbins, the choreographer and ex-member of the CPUSA who had named names in the 1950s but never abandoned his liberal politics. As it turned out, the other four nominated films also had some interesting connections with the left, as we shall see.
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