Art Smith may actually be a genuine
case of being blacklisted from Hollywood as a Communist. Smith was named by
Elia Kazan, his former acting and writing partner (Dimitroff,
which had to do with the imprisonment of the Bulgarian Communist leader by the
Nazis following the Reichstag fire) in the leftist Group Theater, where
Smith was also a primary actor. Kazan named Smith, who was mostly a stage actor because the outing would do the actor little harm in the film business, where
he was mostly an extra. Theater and a tiny bit of television kept him busy after
1952, when he was outed as a Communist in April of 1952.
Anna Christie (Jan 23, 1952 - Feb
02, 1952)
Golden Boy (Mar 12, 1952 - Apr
06, 1952)
1953 Tales of Tomorrow (TV
Series)
Home Is the Hero (Sep 22, 1954 -
Oct 16, 1954)
He kept busy in stage work,
mostly in New York
A Touch of the Poet (Oct 02, 1958
- Jun 13, 1959)
West Side Story (Sep 26, 1957 -
Jun 27, 1959)
He returned to film in the early
1960s and made three television appearances and one uncredited bit part in a
film.