Who were the "Hollywood Ten"?
A) They were a group of prominent film directors and screenwriters who refused to testify about past political associations on the basis of their free speech rights.
B) They were the ten most popular film stars of the early 1950s.
C) They were the ten most powerful movie producers in Hollywood, who signed on to make anticommunist movies for the federal government.
D) They were Harry Truman's favorite movie comedians.
E) They were a group of prominent film directors and screenwriters who exposed communist infiltration in the major Hollywood studios.
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