Norma Barzman, an undistinguished, virtually unknown screenwriter and actress, who had sought to slaughter over 100 million Americans and enslave the rest, is dead at 103

By N.S.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0059555/bio/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm

The further we get from the 1950s, the more desperate that crypto-communists get to portray obscure communist usa party members with some connection to hollywood as “victims” of great accomplishment.

"When, in his old age, Elia Kazan was awarded an honorary Oscar, she was one of the most vociferous and eloquent critics of the award, and was interviewed on British television about it."

Norma Barzman said absolutely nothing "eloquent" against Kazan getting the honorary Oscar. I know this because, had she waxed eloquent, the imdb.com Gauleiter would have quoted her verbatim.

Whoever controls imdb.com, desperately sought to make Norma Barzman sound important. I suspect this was done by Jon Hopwood, who signed off on the bio page of her late husband, Ben, who had major accomplishments as a screenwriter, for which he made a fortune, although several of his scripts were for epics by independent producer Samuel Bronston (The Fall of the Roman Empire, 1964), as well as The Blue Max (1966), which flopped at the box office. Hopwood claims that Ben Barzman left the french communist party after the 1968 Paris student riots, because he found it insufficiently communist. In recent years, Hopwood has made his racial socialism ever more blatant.

Norma Barzman’s entire “Mini Bio”:

“Norma Barzman was born on September 15, 1920 in New York City, New York, USA. She was a writer and actress, known for Fanciulle di lusso (1952), Never Say Goodbye (1946) and Theatre 70 (1960). She was married to Ben Barzman and Claude Shannon. She died on December 17, 2023 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.”

That’s three movies I’d never heard of. She wasn’t known for any of them, or anything else.

The former Norma Levor’s marriage to Claude Shannon was so brief that their divorce was finalized after only one year. What had Shannon done, criticize comrade Stalin on their wedding night? And yet, imdb seeks to give credit to Norma Levor Barzman for her first momentary husband’s legend as “the father of information theory.”


“Family

• “Spouses

“Ben Barzman(1942 - December 15, 1989) (his death, 7 children)

“Claude Shannon(1940 - 1941?) (divorced)


“Trivia

• “Cousin of screenwriter Henry Myers.
• “When, in his old age, Elia Kazan was awarded an honorary Oscar, she was one of the most vociferous and eloquent critics of the award, and was interviewed on British television about it. [She had nothing eloquent to say on the matter. If she had, imdb would have quoted her verbatim.]

• “She was active in the film industry in the Golden Age of Hollywood. [The hell, she was. She was hardly “active,” and was as obscure a “Hollywood” figure as existed.]

• “She met and married screenwriter Ben Barzman. Between the years 1949 and 1976 they lived in London, Paris, and Mougins (France), having been blacklisted from Hollywood. They had seven children.

• “Barzman was married from 1940 till 1941 to the mathematician Claude Shannon, known as the ‘father of information theory,’ and lived with him in Princeton, New Jersey. When they divorced, Barzman moved to Los Angeles with her mother and took classes at the School for Writers, the members of which were leftist [sic].

• “It was Dmytryk who testified about the Barzmans to HUAC in early 1951. the director had returned to the U.S. and was in prison on the Hollywood 10 contempt charge. ‘in order to get out of prison he named us and a lot of other people,’ said Barzman.

• “she became pals with Sophia Loren while her husband Ben was writing the screenplay for El Cid, and the photographer Robert Capa stroked her pregnant belly for good luck on his way to a night of gambling.

• “she and her husband Ben first became aware that the police were on their case when they were tipped off by a young actress, also called Norma, who was on her way to a party the Minellis were throwing to celebrate the arrival of their new daughter, Liza. spotting the Barzmans having an alfresco [drinking outside, made to sound fancy] gin and tonic, the actress told them that she had been stopped by cops at the bottom of their street and asked if she was going to visit them. Two years later, in exile, Ben spotted a photo of the actress in a newspaper. She had changed her name to Marilyn Monroe.

• “She wrote the screenplay to the 1953 Italian production finishing school and episodes of the adventures of Robin Hood while raising seven children.

• “It was the Depression-era drama Christ in Concrere [sic] based on the Pietro Di Donato novel that brought the Barzmans and their two small children to England in early 1949. Christ in Concrete won acclaim and prizes in Europe. Released as Give Us This Day in England and the U.S., ‘it was only shown for two weeks in an all-night movie theater in New York,’ said Barzman. The movie was the first blacklist exile film.

• “it was during the communist witch hunts [sic] that many progressive [sic] writers, actors, directors and producers under scrutiny [sic] decided to go into exile in hopes of continuing their careers. some moved to europe, including directors Jules Dassin and Joseph Losey, and screenwriters Ben and Norma Barzman. others such as screenwriter Dalton Trumbo went to mexico.

• “after obtaining her FBI files, Norma Barzman ‘discovered they followed us in Paris. we moved around a lot, and they knew every telephone number and every address. they knew everything we did from 1949 to 1954 until we bought our house in Paris.’ [Why would they have stopped then?] and to complicate matters, the U.S. Embassy took away her passport in 1951 for seven years. [They were all communists. “Progressive” is just euphemism, which exposes the writer’s dishonesty and communism.]

• “her husband wrote also screenplays, but he was depressed and bitter in exile. [“Also”? In addition to her?! Besides, he was very successful, writing scripts in exile.]

• “Barzman appeared during the UCLA Film and Television Archive’s ‘Hollywood Exiles in Europe" series in July-Aug. 2014.

• “Barzman wrote the 2003 autobiography The Red and the Blacklist: The Intimate Memoir of a Hollywood Expatriate and has been a leader in getting blacklisted writers’ credits restored to films that were released with a ‘front’ name.” [I am unaware of Norma Levor Barzman having been such a ‘leader,’ and will not accept said claim, until getting independent corroboration.]

“Quotes

• “I was more excited meeting Picasso than I was in Princeton in 1940 when my then husband, Claude Shannon, introduced me to Einstein.”