Edward g. Robinson: Weasel extraordinaire

Edward G. Robinson: (Born Emanuel Goldenberg) In June of 1949, the FBI presented a report for the HUAC that named Robinson as a suspected Communist sympathizer. The Tenney Committee also had Robinson listed as a Communist.   Robinson denied that he was ever a communist but when called before the HUAC on April 30, 1952, the actor couldn’t name names fast enough. He gave the committee Albert Maltz, Dalton Trumbo, John Howard Lawson, Frank Tuttle and Sidney Buchman)

It is written, continuously, that after being a named a Communist that Robinson was “threatened” with Blacklisting, but those who supposedly threatened him, if anyone did,  are never named.    

Robinson wasn’t “Grey listed” after he was identified but denied being a Communist.  He worked steadily through the 1950s, a tumultuous time in the film industry, which was fighting to keep one step ahead of television. The studios were frantically selling young and sexy. Robinson was 57 years old in 1950.he actually appeared in several hit films in that decade as well.

Rose Hobart: Another case of injured ego blaming her failure on the HUAC

Rose Hobart: This appears to be another case of “My career is over, so I’ll say I was blacklisted” and in fact by 1945, Hobart was nearing fifty, ancient for an actor in 1940s Hollywood and had been reduced to playing small supporting roles.

Hobart had a total of 50 acting credits that started in 1930, 42 of them before 1950. She was inactive between 1950 and 1960 (She was pregnant through the latter half of 1948 and early 1949.) She appeared in the stage play  “The Winslow Boy”  in 1950, “The Cocktail Party” in 1951-1953, “Theater” in 1953  

She was a very active member of the Actors' Laboratory Theatre, a communist front. In 1950, three years after appearing before the HUAC, Hobart was listed in Red Channels as a Communist. Hobart,  a board member of the Screen Actors Guild, was committed to improving working conditions for Hollywood actors. The studios considered her a malcontent and wanted her gone. Her career probably would have ended without the HUAC or Red Channels.  

Lee J. Cobb named her before the HUAC investigators as a member of the Communist Party. It is not true that she denied being a communist before the HUAC, instead, she gave a seemingly endless and aimless dialogue in response to a simple question; Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?

Paul Draper

Paul Draper was an actor singer/dancer who was accused of being a communist in 1949

Draper had three acting credits for film in 1936, 1948 and 1949. He did some Broadway work but not much and most of his career consisted of touring city to city.

Draper had served as a spokesman for a committee of actors, producers and writers to oppose an inquiry by the HUAC. He publicly supported Henry Wallace, the Progressive Party nominee for President in 1948, and performed in benefits to raise money for groups and causes labeled as subversive by the committee.

In 1949, he sued a Connecticut woman, Mrs. Hester Mac McCullough of Greenwich,  for $200,000 for libel after she protested their performing at a local concert, describing them as having been denounced as pro-Communist. The suit became a cause celebre, prompting Westbrook Pegler, the columnist, to call for contributions to help pay for the woman's defense. Ed Sullivan canceled  Draper on his television show and wrote a letter of apology to his advertisers. The Draper’s mother stupidly went to Moscow, praised the Soviet way of life and down talked the United States.  She also went through the trouble of forming an organization called the Congress of American Women. The report of the Committee on un-American Activities states that this is an affiliate of the Women'(s International Democratic Federation (WIDF) a Soviet front. "The purpose of these organizations is . . . to serve as a specialized arm of , Soviet political warfare and demobilize the United States and democratic nations generally in order to' render them helpless In the face of the Communist drive for world conquest," this report of the committee begins. '

The trial ended in a hung jury in May 1950.

A routine of his was to appear on CBS's Toast of the Town in 1950 but was cut out of the segment due to protests the station received. He was eventually forced to give up touring due to no sales largely brought on by bad press.

Draper left the country in 1951 and settled in Switzerland for three years. He exiled himself. No one forced him to go. His act failed because theaters goers disapproved of his politics.