- Earned $50 a week as a reader at Metro-Goldwyn Mayer
- Member of League American Writers, the Screen Writers Guild, and National Institute of Arts and Letters
- One of the 88 public figures to sign "An Open Letter to American Liberals" protesting Leon Trotsky's defense against the Soviet Union
- Testified in front of the House Un-American Activities and consistently claimed the Fifth ammendment
- Was "a most casual member" of the Communist Party
- Actively Supported the International Brigades who joined the anti-Franco side of the Spanish Civil War
- Refused a contract from Columbia because she found the loyalty clause an infringement on her rights of free speech and to sign a statement that Hellman was never involved with the Communist Party which would hurt her romantic relationship with active Communist with Dashiell Hammet
- With Earnest Hemingway hosted a dinner to raise money for anti-Nazi French prisoners
- Returned to Hollywood in 1934 to become a screenwriter for Goldwyn Pictures at $2,500 a week
- Wrote an editorial in Screen Writer mocking the House Un-American Activities for denying employment to anyone who refused to answer questions by the house and allowing producers to be intimidated
- Helped form and fund Contemporary Historians, Inc. with Dorothy Parker and Archibald MacLeish to demonstrate support for the anti-Franco forces in the Spanish Civil Wars
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