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Herbert J. Biberman was an American screenwriter, director, and producer. He is best known for his work on the 1951 film Salt of the Earth, which was blacklisted by the Hollywood establishment due to its pro-union and pro-minority themes. Biberman was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on March 4, 1900. He attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied law. After graduating, he worked as a lawyer for a few years before turning to writing and directing. Biberman wrote and directed several films in the 1930s and 1940s, including The Master Race (1945) and The Master Plan (1946). He also wrote and directed the 1951 film Salt of the Earth, which was blacklisted by the Hollywood establishment due to its pro-union and pro-minority themes. Biberman was a member of the Directors Guild of America and the Writers Guild of America. He was also a member of the Communist Party USA. Biberman died on March 4, 1971, in Los Angeles, California. He was 71 years old.

Popular As Herbert Joseph Biberman
Occupation writer,director,producer
Age 71 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 4 March 1900
Birthday 4 March
Birthplace Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Date of death 30 June, 1971
Died Place New York City, New York, USA
Nationality United States

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Who Is Herbert J. Biberman's Wife?

His wife is Gale Sondergaard (1930 - 30 June 1971) ( his death) ( 2 children)

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1965

In 1965, the film was finally released in the U. S. market. "Salt of the Earth" has been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. Biberman and Sondergaard had two children.

1954

In 1954, Biberman directed the independently produced, left-wing motion picture Salt of the Earth (1954), a fictionalized account of a miners; strike in Grant County, New Mexico. Working with other blacklisted movie professionals, including screenwriters Michael Wilson (who wrote the picture) and Paul Jarrico (who produced it), the film starred such progressive actors as Will Geer. It was made against tremendous odds, including opposition from Hollywood and the government. A chronicle of the terrible working conditions faced by miners in New Mexico, the film had the official backing of the local miner's union and employed real workers and their families.

1950

In 1950, Biberman was fined and sentenced to six months in prison for contempt of Congress. Biberman's wife, the Oscar-winner Gale Sondergaard, was similarly accused and refused to testify. She also was blacklisted.

However, other unions, involved in a Cold War fight in the 1950s against communist-dominated domestic unions and Communist Party-affiliated union organizers (a fight that began in Hollywood immediately after World War II, when returning veterans fought back against trade guilds that had become infiltrated by organized crime during their war service), refused to show the film because Biberman was still blacklisted. It was screened only once, in New York, before being blackballed from exhibition in the U. S. for 11 years. Biberman released the film in Europe where it won awards in France and Czechoslovakia.

1947

Biberman was arraigned before HUAC in 1947, where he was one of 19 unfriendly witnesses who refused to answer the Committee's inquiry into their political affiliations. The 19 eventually became the Hollywood Ten, as others of the 19 dropped away, including such luminaries as Bertolt Brecht, who left the U. S. for East Germany. Under the advice of lawyers with Communist Party affiliations, the Ten decided to adopt a common front and defy the committee by refusing to or deny the allegations that they were communists.

1940

Schulberg's son Budd Schulberg, an ex-communist, who would be one of his chief accusers in the Hollywood show trials of the late 1940s.

1935

Biberman became a director with the Theater Guild, and entered the movie industry as a dialog director on Colmbia Pictures' Eight Bells (1935) in 1935.

He made his first picture that year, directing One-Way Ticket (1935) for B. P. Schulberg Productions and Columbia. Ironically, it would be producer B. P.

1930

He married actress Gale Sondergaard in 1930.

1928

In 1928, Biberman joined the left-wing Theater Guild as an assistant stage manager, beginning his professional career in the arts.

1900

Herbert J. Biberman, the progressive producer, director and screenwriter now best known as one of the Hollywood Ten who were blacklisted by the American Film Industry for refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), was born on March 4, 1900 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Educated at the University of Pennsylvania and Yale, Biberman entered his family's textile business after a journey to Europe.