founder, American Civil Liberties Union John Ballato, early socialist Harry Carlisle, writer, teacher Kenneth Chamberlain, political cartoonist for The Masses Andrew Dasburg, painter Tess Davis, cousin of Louise Bryant's first husband Will Durant, historian Blanche Hays Fagen, member of the Provincetown Players Hamilton Fish, congressman, Harvard classmate of John Reed Dorothy Frooks, recruiting girl, World War I Hugo Gellert, artist for The Masses Emmanuel Herbert, student in Petrograd, 1917–18 George Jessel, entertainer Oleg Kerensky, son of Alexander Kerensky Isaac Don Levine, journalist, translator for Reed Arthur Mayer, film historian, Harvard classmate of Reed, also film distributor Henry Miller, novelist Adele Nathan, member of the Provincetown Players Scott Nearing, sociologist, pacifist Dora Russell, delegate to Comintern Adela Rogers St. Johns, journalist George Seldes, U.S. journalist in Moscow Art Shields, political activist Jessica Smith, political activist Arne Swabeck, member, Communist Labor Party Bernadine Szold-Fritz, journalist Galina von Meck, witness to Russian Revolution Heaton Vorse, son of a Provincetown playwright Will Weinstone, organizer, U.S. Communist Party Rebecca West, writer, novelist Lucita Squier, screenwriter and widow of Albert Rhys Williams, who was an American participant in the Russian Revolution, pro-Soviet author, friend and biographer of Lenin Filming When principal photography began in August 1979 the original intention was for a 15- to 16-week shoot, but it ultimately took one year. Filming took place in five different countries and at various points the crew had to wait for snow to fall in Helsinki (and other parts of Finland), which stood in for the Soviet Union, and for rain to stop in Spain. Beatty asked the Soviet government for a permit to film in Moscow but was denied. A cottage in Kent was used to depict exteriors of the Reeds' home in Croton-on-Hudson, which in reality was a small early American saltbox house. The interior sets built at Twickenham Studios and EMI-Elstree Studios were also enlarged to evoke the "flavor" of the real home without reproducing it exactly. Other English locations included Frensham Ponds in Surrey, which stood in for Provincetown, the Smeaton Room of the Institution of Civil Engineers at One Great George Street for the Liberal Club meeting room in Portland, and the interior of Lancaster House for that of the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg. Another round of filming began in 1980 in New York City, Washington D.C., and Los Angeles, including Paramount Studios. The Italian cinematographer Vittorio Storaro was banned from shooting