----------------------------Original message---------------------------- *** Reply to note of 03/13/92 09:31 Subject: Re: Propoganda Furthermore, I MARRIED A COMMUNIST was reputed to be Howard Hughes's loyalty test at RKO. A number of studio directors were offered the project and worked on it a while (like Nicholas Ray) or turned it down (like Joseph Losey). Losey: Hughes out of spite kept me under contract and out of work when I refused I MARRIED A COMMUNIST. He sent me a message that I had a seven-year contract and he said, "You'll stay here for seven years and you'll never work." But I eventually got out. (Michel Ciment, Conversations with Losey [London: Methuen, 1985].)