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But he was much more than that:<\/strong> Bold spirit, world traveler, street-smart Chicago kid, precinct worker, union organizer, auto worker. Soldier, leftist, Hollywood agent, target of the McCarthy Red Scare. Journalist, novelist, winner of the National Book Award for his memoir, Going Away<\/strong><\/a><\/em>. Screenwriter of “Frida,”<\/a><\/strong> about the painter Frida Kahlo. Lover of Nobel laureate Doris Lessing who depicted him in her most significant novel,\u00a0The Golden Notebook<\/strong><\/em><\/a>. And now the subject of a documentary, “Clancy Sigal: Hollywood Blacklist to A List,” to be screened at the Facets Chicago Film Frenzy<\/strong><\/a> on March 30.<\/h6>\n\n\n\n

Click to watch the teaser trailer.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Produced and directed by Kurt Jacobsen and Warren Leming, filmmakers of the documentaries “American Road,” “The Milagro Man: The Literary Life and Times of John Nichols,” and “Ed Asner: On Stage and Off.”<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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