- Blacklisted in 1950s as one of the "Hollywood Ten".
- His opposition to Lend Lease was so extreme that he was suspected of being a Nazi, although he was Jewish. He favored the United States' entering World War II only after the invasion of the Soviet Union.
- His membership in the Directors Guild of America was posthumously restored in 1997; he had been expelled in 1950.
- He married actress Gale Sondergaard in 1930; the marriage lasted for the rest of Biberman's life.
- One of the Hollywood Ten, a 2000 film chronicling his blacklisting and the making of Salt of the Earth from Biberman's point of view, starred Jeff Goldblum as Biberman and Greta Scacchi as his wife, the actress Gale Sondergaard. The film's closing credits noted Biberman had never been removed from the old blacklist formally, and that Sondergaard had not found work in Hollywood until shortly before her husband's death.
- Biberman was an American screenwriter and film director.
- The result of working independently was the movie Salt of the Earth (1954), a fictionalized account of the Grant County miners' strike. The screenplay was by Michael Wilson and it was produced by Paul Jarrico, neither members of the Ten but they were both also blacklisted. Salt of the Earth has been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
- Biberman based his re fusal on the First Amendment, contending that his polit ical affiliations, if any, were protected by the amend ment's guarantees of free speech and assembly. Appeals courts, however, rejected his argument, and the Supreme Court declined to hear the case.
- Biberman directed "Salt of the Earth" in 1954. A drama about striking New Mexico miners, It was funded for $300,000 in part by the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers. When Biberman tried to book the movie, union projectionists declined to show it because he was on their black list. The one exception was the 86th Street Grande Theater here, which played the film for nine weeks to appreciative notices. In Europe, it was voted the best picture of the year by the Motion Picture Academy of France and carried off a top prize of the Karlovy Vary, Film Festival in Czechoslovakia. The movie received mostly excellent reviews, especially for Biberman's sensitve use of actual miners and their families in leading roles.
- He was one of the Hollywood Ten and directed Salt of the Earth (1954), a film barely released in the United States, about a zinc miners' strike in Grant County, New Mexico.
- Biberman and the others were imprisoned for their contempt convictions, Biberman for six months. Edward Dmytryk ultimately cooperated with the House committee, but Biberman and the others were blacklisted by the Hollywood studios.
- In 1947, the Congressional House Committee on Un-American Activities began its investigation into the film industry, and Biberman became one of ten Hollywood writers and directors cited for contempt of Congress when they refused to answer questions about their American Communist Party affiliation. Evidence presented in the hearing showed that Biberman had been a member of the communist party since at least 1944.
- Biberman's pre-blacklist career included writing such films as King of Chinatown (1939), When Tomorrow Comes (1939), Action in Arabia (1944), The Master Race (1944), which he also directed, and New Orleans (1947), as well as directing such films as One Way Ticket (1935) and Meet Nero Wolfe (1936).
- Biberman worked independently after his release from jail.
- Biberman was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Joseph and Eva Biberman and was the brother of American artist, Edward Biberman.
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