Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals

The Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals (MPA or MPAPAI ), German as " film - alliance for the preservation of American ideals," was on February 4, 1944 launched the called merger American filmmakers, the fight against which had put spread " communist, fascist and other totalitarian groups " in the American film industry to the destination. Early on, the MPA focused on the fight against communism. 1947 declared Robert Montgomery, president of the Screen Actors Guild Screen Actors Guild, and members of the Motion Picture Alliance before committees of the House Committee on Un - American Activities ( HUAC ) that Hollywood would infiltrated by Communists. As a consequence, left sympathies suspected filmmakers were charged before the HUAC and given the choice to work with this or risk imprisonment and vocational education. The first ten well-known pre- summoned and later convicted, including Dalton Trumbo and Edward Dmytryk were known as Hollywood Ten.

The members of the MPA included Robert Arthur, Ward Bond, Clarence Brown, Borden Chase, Charles Coburn, Gary Cooper, Laraine Day, Cecil B. DeMille, Walt Disney, Irene Dunne, Victor Fleming, Clark Gable, Howard Hawks, Hedda Hopper, Leo McCarey, Adolphe Menjou, George Murphy, Fred Niblo, Jr., Ayn Rand, Ronald Reagan, Ginger Rogers, Barbara Stanwyck, Norman Taurog, Robert Taylor, King Vidor, John Wayne and Sam Wood. Sam Wood was elected the first president, Walt Disney, Cedric Gibbons and Norman Taurog as Vice-Presidents.

An MPA member who soon critically commented against the subpoenas of the HUAC and the resulting prohibition that Gary Cooper was. 1975, the MPA dissolved in the same year as the successor organization to the HUAC, the Internal Security Committee.