Doubtfully blacklisted: Minerva Pious





Minerva Pious, actress. Pious is said to have been blacklisted in1950 and if she was blacklisted, she was blacklisted from radio because Pious was a radio actor who avoided film.  "Minnie could do a million things," said writer Bob Weiskopf "Nice lady. She had a physical affliction—she had a bad hip, a severe limp. She was very concerned about television; she never worked very much. But radio was fine”
 Regardless, between 1950 and 1951, she appeared on three television shows and a fourth in 1956. She appeared in only four films in her entire career, two in the 1940s and two in the 1950s (1955 and 1957)
But was she blacklisted from radio? I don’t know. By the early 1950s, scripted radio programs were dying off, a death hastened by the rise of popular music which drew millions of young listeners and millions more in advertising dollars. By 1962, virtually all scripted radio programs were gone.

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.