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Front (identity)
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A front in the 1950s was the term for someone who agreed to lend his own identity in covering for a blacklisted artist in the American film industry during the McCarthy era.
Many actors, screenwriters and others in film work were blacklisted (banned) because of their supposed "subversive" activities after investigations by the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
Covert use of another identity was a creative solution to the problem, making it possible for the barred artist to continue creating and producing work under a pseudonym or by using a "front".
The Front, 1976, stars Woody Allen and Zero Mostel, director Martin Ritt, is a dramatized account of Hollywood blacklisting during the 1950s.