(1952) Tags: RKO
RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. v. Jarrico
In 1951 RKO entered into a written contract with Paul Jarrico, a motion picture screen writer, whereby it hired appellant to prepare a screenplay for a motion picture property which it owned entitled The Las Vegas Story. Thereafter, appellant was subpoenaed to appear before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. While he was in attendance at a hearing of the Committee, a longtime associate of his named appellant as a Communist and an active member of the Communist Party.
After Jarrico was accused of being a communist, he was denied screen credit for his work on The Las Vegas Story.