themselves on the board of directors of the Screen Directors' Guild. Dmytryk explained that, at the time, the Communist Party wanted to get as many people as it could on the board of directors of the Screen Directors' Guild, the Screen Writers' Guild and the Screen Actors' Guild, so that they could eventually control the policy of those guilds, particularly in relation to an eventual coalition for the backing of the various unions. On May 24, 1951, film director Frank Tuttle gave a testimony to the House Un-American Activities Committee. He testified that, during the 1930s and 1940s, a group of seven Communists existed within the Screen Directors' Guild. Dassin was again named as one of the seven Communist directors, along with Herbert Bieberman, Edward Dmytryk, Bernard Vorhaus, John Berry, Michael Gordon and Tuttle himself. Tuttle explained that the purpose of the Communist members in the Screen Directors' Guild was to elect its members to the board of directors, but that only he, Dmytryk and Bieberman had succeeded in being appointed to executive positions, with the help of votes from the seven Communist members. Dassin's name was further mentioned during the Un-American Activities Committee hearings involving actor José Ferrer on May 25, 1951, and film director Michael Gordon on September 17, 1951. Dassin was from that point on, officially listed as an identified past or present member of the Communist Party. In 1952, after Dassin had been out of work for two years, actress Bette Davis hired him to direct her in the Broadway revue Two's Company. The show ran for 90 performances, closing on March 8, 1953, due to Davis' poor health, and Dassin returned to Europe to avoid the issuing of a subpoena to testify before the Un-American Activities Committee. Working in Europe France In March 1953, Dassin was hired by French producer Jacques Bar to direct the comedy-crime film The Most Wanted Man, starring Fernandel and Zsa Zsa Gabor in a spoof of American gangster films. Dassin maintains that two days before the film was to begin shooting, Bar relented to pressure from a noted Hollywood politician not to work with him, receiving threats that the film, and any future Bar productions, would not be granted American distribution. In a hearing before the United States House of Representatives, Committee on Un-American Activities on July 12, 1956, Allied Artists Pictures Corporation manager of branch operations Roy M. Brewer