- Title Pages
- Title Pages
- Title Pages
- Illustrations
- To Iris Barry (1895–1969)
- Credits
- Previews
- 1 Early Years
- 2 “We Enjoyed the War”
- 3 “Dear Miss Barry”
- 4 The Other Bloomsbury
- 5 Life with Lewis
- 6 Children
- 7 Alan Porter
- 8 The Spectator
- 9 Splashing into Film Society
- 10 Cinema Paragons, Hollywood, and Lady Mary
- 11 Let’s Go to the Pictures
- 12 Victory and Defeat
- 13 America
- 14 The Askew Salon
- 15 Museum Men
- 16 Remarriage
- 17 Settling In
- 18 Cracking Hollywood
- 19 Art High and Low
- 20 On to Europe
- 21 Going Public
- 22 The Slow Martyrdom of Alfred Barr
- 23 Meanwhile, Back at the Library
- 24 New Work, Old Acquaintances
- 25 “The Master” and his Minions
- 26 Temora Farm
- 27 The Museum Enlists
- 28 Mr. Rockefeller’s Office
- 29 L’Affair Buñuel
- 30 The Other Library
- 31 Divorce
- 32 Postwar Blues
- 33 Abbott’s Fall
- 34 Hospital
- 35 Departure
- 36 La Bonne Font
- 37 Things Past
- 38 The Austin House
- 39 Readjustments
- 40 New York and London
- 41 Final Breaks
- 42 The End
- Sequel
- Sources
- Index
Things Past
Things Past
- Chapter:
- (p.369) 37 Things Past
- Source:
- Lady in the Dark
- Author(s):
Robert Sitton
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
This chapter details Iris Barry's efforts to make her farm a source of self-sufficiency as well as her continued involvement with members of the film industry. It also describes her personal relationship with McCarthyism. James Card, curator at George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, and a self-proclaimed cold warrior, viewed the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF), the archivist group Iris had cofounded, as a Communist enclave and “strongly politicized” during the 1950s. In the summer of 1953, Iris applied for a passport in Nice. Perhaps as a routine inquiry following such applications, a security clearance request made its way through the offices of the U.S. Department of State. It resulted in a curious snag. A March 1, 1954, State Department memorandum revealed that “The Department is in receipt of information to the effect that MRS. ABBOTT is suspected of being a Communist or a Communist sympathizer.” The memo went on to instruct the American Embassy in Paris to interview Iris in view of obtaining her views and sympathies toward Communism.
Keywords: McCarthyism, International Federation of Film Archives, James Card, George Eastman House, State Department, Communist
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- Title Pages
- Title Pages
- Title Pages
- Illustrations
- To Iris Barry (1895–1969)
- Credits
- Previews
- 1 Early Years
- 2 “We Enjoyed the War”
- 3 “Dear Miss Barry”
- 4 The Other Bloomsbury
- 5 Life with Lewis
- 6 Children
- 7 Alan Porter
- 8 The Spectator
- 9 Splashing into Film Society
- 10 Cinema Paragons, Hollywood, and Lady Mary
- 11 Let’s Go to the Pictures
- 12 Victory and Defeat
- 13 America
- 14 The Askew Salon
- 15 Museum Men
- 16 Remarriage
- 17 Settling In
- 18 Cracking Hollywood
- 19 Art High and Low
- 20 On to Europe
- 21 Going Public
- 22 The Slow Martyrdom of Alfred Barr
- 23 Meanwhile, Back at the Library
- 24 New Work, Old Acquaintances
- 25 “The Master” and his Minions
- 26 Temora Farm
- 27 The Museum Enlists
- 28 Mr. Rockefeller’s Office
- 29 L’Affair Buñuel
- 30 The Other Library
- 31 Divorce
- 32 Postwar Blues
- 33 Abbott’s Fall
- 34 Hospital
- 35 Departure
- 36 La Bonne Font
- 37 Things Past
- 38 The Austin House
- 39 Readjustments
- 40 New York and London
- 41 Final Breaks
- 42 The End
- Sequel
- Sources
- Index
