my father went and testified actually on the same day that bertold brecht testified.hing to say. so the committee sent a messenger to my father's agent, a wonderful agent named sam jaffe, and said there is no problem with john cromwell. well just want him to apologize. and sam said you will never get john cromwell to apologize to any committee. so howard hughes wanted him out. but he couldn't fire him without violating the contract. in the contract it stated he had to shoot any picture that the studio gave him. and they gave him a picture called "i married a communist." a piece of crap. my father, understanding that what they were doing said fine, i'll shoot the picture. but you can't shoot this script. this is horrible. you've got yes write this. so writer after writer came for months to try to fix this script, which they couldn't. they would have then had to have paid him double. to howard hughes wrote a check, 1953 for a million dollars. my father went to beverly hills, bought a building, and moved to the east, was in a play with henry fonda called "point of no ret