Doubtfully blacklisted: Howard Bay





Howard Bay, scenic designer: If Bay was blacklisted, it is difficult to determine who blacklisted him and when he was blacklisted or how that supposed blacklisting harmed his career.  Primarily a designer on big budget Broadways plays,  he doesn’t appear to have ever been out of work throughout the 1950s.
 If the claim is that he was banned from TV and film, it’s a thin argument. From 1939 until 1960, he had a total of four television credits in his long career, one of those credits was for an award show where he was honored. He is credited with design work in three films (1939-1954)

BROADWAY

The Fighting Cock
Dec 08, 1959 - Feb 20, 1960

A Desert Incident
Mar 24, 1959 - Mar 28, 1959

Interlock
Feb 06, 1958 - Feb 08, 1958

The Music Man
Dec 19, 1957 - Apr 15, 1961

Romanoff and Juliet
Oct 10, 1957 - Sep 13, 1958

Look Back in Anger
Oct 01, 1957 - Sep 20, 1958

Night of the Auk
Dec 03, 1956 - Dec 08, 1956

A Very Special Baby
Nov 14, 1956 - Nov 17, 1956

Red Roses for Me
Dec 28, 1955 - Jan 21, 1956

Finian's Rainbow
May 18, 1955 - May 29, 1955

The Desperate Hours
Feb 10, 1955 - Aug 13, 1955

Sandhog
Nov 23, 1954 - Jan 02, 1955

Show Boat
May 05, 1954 - May 16, 1954

The Shrike
Nov 25, 1953 - Dec 06, 1953

Mid-Summer
Jan 21, 1953 - Apr 25, 1953

The Children's Hour
Dec 18, 1952 - May 30, 1953

The Shrike
Jan 15, 1952 - May 31, 1952

The Grand Tour
Dec 10, 1951 - Dec 15, 1951

Go Man Go (uncredited) TV (1951)
Costume designer (1 credit)

Two on the Aisle
Jul 19, 1951 - Mar 15, 1952

Flahooley
May 14, 1951 - Jun 16, 1951

The Autumn Garden
Mar 07, 1951 - Jun 02, 1951

Hilda Crane
Nov 01, 1950 - Dec 31, 1950

The Fred Waring Show (TV Series) (1 episode) TV
 Autumn in New York/Minstrel Show (1950)

Borned in Texas
Aug 21, 1950 - Aug 26, 1950

The Lady from the Sea
Aug 07, 1950 - Aug 19, 1950

Parisienne
Jul 24, 1950 - Aug 05, 1950

Michael Todd's Peep Show
Jun 28, 1950 - Feb 25, 1951

Come Back, Little Sheba
Feb 15, 1950 - Jul 29, 1950

Montserrat
Oct 29, 1949 - Dec 24, 1949

The Big Knife
Feb 24, 1949 - May 28, 1949

As the Girls Go
Nov 13, 1948 - Jan 14, 1950


He also taught set designing for 14 years at Brandeis University.

Just because someone’s name appeared in Red Channels, that doesn’t mean they were blacklisted. It just means there name appeared in Red Channels.
Just because a person said they were blacklisted doesn’t mean they were. Many people in Hollywood have lied about being blacklisted over the years.
If  a person was actually blacklisted…and not many were actually blacklisted….it was the studios and TV sponsors who blacklisted them. Not the United States federal government.
If a person claims the blacklist ruined their career, they should be able to prove they had a career before the blacklist.