Alvah Bessie: novelist of Men in Battle, screenwriter of Northern Pursuit, Hotel Berlin.
Herbert Biberman: writer and director of The Master Race, writer and producer of New Orleans.

Lester Cole: author of some 40 screenplays including None Shall Escape, Blood on the Sun, The Romance of Rosy Ridge.
Edward Dmytryk: director of some 25 films including Crossfire, Cornered, Murder My Sweet, Hitler's Children.

Ring Lardner, Jr: screenwriter of Woman of the Year (Academy Award Winner), The Cross of Larraine, Tomorrow the World.
John Howard Lawson: author of Blockade, Sahara, Action in the North Atlantic.

Albert Maltz: novelist of The Cross and the Arrow, screenwriter of Destination Tokyo, Naked City.
Samuel Ornitz: novelist of Haunch Paunch and Jowl and Yankee Passional, screenwriter of China's Little Devils.

Adrian Scott: producer of Crossfire, Cornered, Deadline at Dawn, Murder My Sweet.
Dalton Trumbo: novelist of Johnny Got His Gun, screenwriter of Kitty Foyle, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, A Guy Named Joe.