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American screenwriter (1904–1985)

Alvah Cecil Bessie (June 4, 1904 – July 21, 1985) was an American novelist, screenwriter and journalist.

He was one of nearly 3,000 American volunteers who joined the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and fought in the Spanish Civil War. He is perhaps best known as a member of the "Hollywood Ten", the group of film artists blacklisted by the entertainment industry for refusing to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Alvah Bessie was born on 4 June in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Objective, Burma!

Alvah Bessie spent the first twenty-four years of his life in New York City.

Alvah Cecil Bessie (June 4, – July 21, ) was an American novelist, screenwriter and journalist.

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Alvah Bessie, a writer whose politics took him to Spain to fight in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade during the Spanish Civil War and years later.

Early life

Alvah Bessie was the younger of two sons of Daniel Nathan Cohen Bessie and Adeline Schlesinger Bessie. They were a middle-class Jewish family living in the prosperous section of Harlem in New York City.

In a 1983 interview, Bessie remembered his stern father as a successful businessman, inventor, and "hard-ribbed Republican, completely sold on the free-enterprise system."^[1] Alvah attended public schools, including DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx where he had the reputation