The Hollywood Blacklist Myth : Doubtfully blacklisted: Howard Duff

Doubtfully blacklisted: Howard Duff

If you have to be blacklisted, be blacklisted like Howard Duff. Basically, during his blacklisting, he was never out of work. In 1950, Red Channel’s accused Duff of being an active member of the Hollywood Communist party. From 1950 through 1959, he made 18 films and one television film and 18 television shows. Between 1946 and 1949, he made eight films and was uncredited in one of them. In the entire decade of the 1960s, he made three films, had voice-over work in a fourth and made two TV movies. The 1950s, when he was supposed to have been blacklisted, were actually the highlight of his career.

1950

Woman in Hiding

Panther's Moon

Shakedown

Spy Hunt

The adventures of Sam Spade (Radio program)

Screen Guile Theater (Radio program)

The Ed Wynn Show (TV Series)

1951

The Lady from Texas

Charlie Wild, Private Detective (TV Series)

1952

Steel Town

Models Inc.

1953

Roar of the Crowd

Spaceways

Jennifer

The Ford Television Theatre (TV Series)

The Whistler (TV Series)

1954

Tanganyika

Private Hell 36

The Yellow Mountain

Schlitz Playhouse (TV Series)

The Ed Sullivan Show (TV)

Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Stars on Parade (Documentary short)

1955

Women's Prison

Climax! (TV Series)

Celebrity Playhouse (TV Series)

Lux Video Theatre (TV Series)

The Star and the Story (TV Series)

1956

Flame of the Islands

Blackjack Ketchum, Desperado

While the City Sleeps

The Broken Star

Studio 57 (TV Series)

Chevron Hall of Stars (TV Series)

Crossroads (TV Series)

Science Fiction Theatre (TV Series)

I love mystery. Unsold TV plot

Climax! (TV Series)

1957

Sierra Stranger

1957-1958 Mr. Adams and Eve (TV Series)

Target (TV Series)

The Ed Sullivan Show (TV Series)

I've Got a Secret (TV Series)

1958

Teenage Idol (TV movie)

Teenage Idol (Producer credit)

Mr. Adams and Eve (TV series, producer credit)

The Linkletter Show (TV Series)

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (TV Series)

1959

The Twilight Zone (TV Series)

Alcoa Theatre (TV Series)

Bonanza (TV Series)

The George Burns Show (TV Series)

The Juke Box Jury (TV Series)

The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour (TV Series)

Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (TV Series)

The problems we have with the Hollywood left

The problem we have with the Hollywood left is it's the notion that accepting differences is no longer good enough, you have to be complicit in them. The problem we have with the Hollywood left it's the notion that any differing opinion is a threat to your very way of existence but never the opposite. The problem we have with the Hollywood left is the blatant hypocrisy of claiming to care about democracy well on abashedly striving to take control of every step of the political process. The problem we have with the Hollywood left is the notion that any idea or opinion outside of your own ideology is morally repugnant and therefore needs to be silenced. The problem we have with the Hollywood left is the notion that your goals must be achieved using everyone resources regardless on whether they agree. The problem we have with the Hollywood left is their supporting of rights situationally when convenient and the outright rejection of those rights when it's in it's the inconvenient for you. The problem we have with the Hollywood left isthat somehow you know what's best for me enough to allow the government to make that choice for me The problem we have with the Hollywood left it's their failure to see the irony in labeling anyone different than yourself as an extremist or a fundamentalist. Originally written by Jason Blood. Edited for this page.

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.

For the most part, front organizations assumed the character of either a mass or membership organization or a paper organization. Both solicited and used names of prominent persons. Literally hundreds of groups and organizations have either been infiltrated or organized primarily to accomplish the purposes of promoting the interests of the Soviet Union in the United States, the promotion of Soviet war and peace aims, the exploitation of Negroes in the United States, work among foreign-language groups, and to secure a favorable viewpoint toward the Communists in domestic, political, social, and economic issues. The first requisite for front organizations is an idealistic sounding title. Hundreds of such organizations have come into being and have gone out of existence when their true purposes have become known or exposed while others with high-sounding names are continually springing up. J. Edgar Hoover on the subject of Communist front organizations. March 26, 1947