A “studio brat” who grew up in the heart of the Hollywood moviemaking community, Maurice Rapf was an experienced screenwriter by the time he joined the Disney staff in the mid-1940s. He worked at the Disney Studio for a period just under three years, contributing substantially to several Disney films, perhaps most notably Song of the South and its followup, So Dear to My Heart. After leaving the Studio, Rapf, an avowed Communist, ran afoul of the movie industry’s Communist purge and was blacklisted in Hollywood. […]
