Paula Strasberg was 49 at the
height of the blacklist era, ancient for a female actress in Hollywood
standards of the day. Strasberg has no film or television credits prior to the
late 1960s and had last appeared on Broadway in 1948. If anything, her film and TV credit resume was
developed during the 1950s. She worked in 1957, as a dialogue coach for Marilyn
Monroe in The Prince and the Showgirl and again in 1959 on Some Like It Hot.
She appeared on The Arlene Francis Show in 1957.
Doubtfully blacklisted: Lesley Woods.
Lesley Woods. Wood had no prior
film/TV credits prior to 1951. Prior to that, she was a radio actress with a
brief stint in theater. She was not called before the HUAC and there is no
mention of her being blacklisted in the 1950s except the same sources that
allege she was blacklisted but share no evidence.
1959
Young Doctor Malone TV
1958
True Story TV
2 episodes
1956
Robert Montgomery Presents TV
2 episodes
The Edge of Night TV
1951
The Guiding Light TV
1950
The Search for Tomorrow TV
Burgess Meredith: Very very doubtfully blacklisted
If Burgess Meredith was blacklisted, he was the busiest
blacklisted actor in the history of Hollywood. Not listed here are his
extensive credits on radio and as a TV commercial pitchman (Mostly voice-over)
He claimed that in 1947 when the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
subpoenaed a group of film writers because of alleged Communist affiliations,
that he took to the streets and protested and had to flee to England to find
work.
I could find no
mention of him speaking out against the HUAC, in newspapers or magazine, from
1946-1950
1947
Mine Own Executioner (Film)
The Playboy of the Western World (1946-1947)
1948
On Our Merry Way (Film)
1949
Jigsaw (Film uncredited)
A Yank Comes Back
Golden Arrow
The Man on the Eiffel Tower
The Gay Adventure
he Man on the Eiffel Tower
The Silver Theatre (TV Series)
The Ford Theatre Hour (TV Series)
1950
Works of Calder as Narrator
Your Show of Shows – 2 episodes – Himself
Robert Montgomery Presents – episode – Ride the Pink Horse –
Himself/Frank Hugo
Happy as Larry [Broadway]
Lights Out (TV Series)
Repertory Theatre (TV Series)
The Billy Rose Show (TV Series)
Studio One in Hollywood (TV Series)
Robert Montgomery Presents (TV Series)
Robert Montgomery Presents (TV Series)
Your Show of Shows (TV Series)
The Ken Murray Show (TV Series)
Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (TV Series)
The Milton Berle Show (TV Series)
1951
Lights Out (TV Series)
The Fourposter [Broadway]
The Little Blue Light [Broadway]
1952
Omnibus (TV Series)
The Name's the Same –Himself
Theatre Guild on the Air
Lux Video Theatre (TV Series)
Celanese Theatre (TV Series)
1953
Excursion (TV Series documentary)
Omnibus (TV Series)
Tales of Tomorrow 3 episodes (TV Series)
Theatre Guild on the Air
The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker [Broadway]
The Teahouse of the August Moon [Broadway]
1954
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood's Invisible Man
General Electric Theater (TV Series)
Omnibus (TV Series)
The Arthur Murray Party (TV Series)
1955
Omnibus (TV Series)
The Big Story – 38 episodes – Narrator (1955–1958)
General Electric Theater (TV Series)
What's My Line
1956
What's My Line? (TV Series)
Major Barbara [Broadway, ran the entire year]
Speaking of Murder (Broadway, producer)
1957
Albert Schweitzer (Documentary)
Suspicion (TV Series)
The United States Steel Hour (TV Series)
Joe Butterfly(Film)
Director Playhouse 90
The Big Story
1958
Film The Kidnappers
Sorcerer's Village as Narrator
The Ben Hecht Show
The Kidnappers
General Electric Theater (TV Series)
The Big Story (TV Series)
1959
America Pauses for Springtime as Himself
The Jack Paar Tonight Show Himself
The Twilight Zone
Our American Heritage (TV Series)
Sunday Showcase (TV Series)
Ah, Wilderness! (TV Movie)
he DuPont Show of the Month (TV Series)
The Human Comedy ... Narrator
The Jack Paar Tonight Show (TV Series)
America Pauses for the Merry Month of May (TV Movie)
America Pauses for Springtime (TV Special)
The Arthur Murray Party (TV Series)
The Big Story (TV Series)
Rosaura Revueltas was never blacklisted.
Rosaura Revueltas was never blacklisted. The Mexican actress made two films in the US in the 1950s, the last being Salt of the Earth. She was arrested in Silver City New Mexico (Where the film “Salt of the Earth” was being filmed) on February 26, 1953 by INS officers for illegally entering the United States on January 4, 1953 without a passport.
She was given a hearing, with a
jury but left the US before the case was over in order to avoid formal deportation.
She tripped herself
up by requesting a stay in the United States, assuming the INS wouldn’t check
her entry status. The Screen Actors Guild refused to intervene in
her case and many mover and shakers in Hollywood suspected the guild may have
been behind the deportation in the first place since Revueltas was deeply
involved with another guild that competed with the Actors Guild. It was convenient to blame her deportation on the supposed Blacklist, however, Revueltas was never accused of being a communist prior to 1954.
Doubtfully Blacklisted: Leon Janney.
If actor Leon Janney was blacklisted (actually the internet
said he was “Denounced”) as legend says, there is mention of his alleged
blacklisting or communist, or even left-leaning politics or union activities,
in any newspaper from 1940 through 1959.
Between 1940 and 1940, he made one film so, by comparison, the
ten film credit he had between 1950 and 1959 was a boom to his sagging on-camera career. He appeared in one Broadway play in the 1940s and five Broadway
plays from 1950 through 1959. He was also regularly employed on the radio as an
actor and pitchman in the 1950s. he suffered an on-stage gall bladder actor in
1958 which placed him on the sidelines for 8 months.
Janney was a vocal member of AFRA (later AFTRA, as well as in
Actor's Equity, that may have gotten him listed in Red Channels, but the listing didn’t affect his career.
1959
The Philadelphia Story (TV Movie)
The Last Mile
1958
Play The Gazebo (Dec 12, 1958 - Jun 27, 1959)
1957
The Edge of Night (TV Series) Appeared in 5 episodes
Play A Shadow of My Enemy (Dec 11, 1957 - Dec 14, 1957)
Play Measure for Measure (Jan 22, 1957 - Feb 17, 1957)
1955
Tom Corbett, Space Cadet (TV Series)
Play Threepenny Opera (Sep 20, 1955 - Dec 17, 1961)
1954
Play Madam, Will You Walk (Dec 01, 1953 - Jan 10, 1954)
Play The Flowering Peach (Dec 28, 1954 - Apr 23, 1955)
1950
That Wonderful Guy (TV Series)
No, Bill Scott was not blacklisted
Bill Scott was named in Cross
Channels as a suspected communist sympathizer, but he was never blacklisted.
Scott, who reported to Lt. Ronald Reagan
during World War II when he served in the U.S. Army's First Motion Picture Unit
was one of the writers who adapted Dr. Seuss's original story for the 1950
Academy Award-winning short Gerald McBoing-Boing as well as adapting the 1953
Academy Award-nominated short film of Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart. He
also wrote many commercials for General Mills and eventually worked for the
Alt-Right Disney Studios under Walt Disney. Scott was a member of the Screen
Cartoonist's Guild of which he was President in 1952. He was also a member of
the Screen Actors Guild and was elected to the Board of Governors of the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
1959 The Dudley Do-Right Show (TV
Series)
1959The Watts Gnu Show (TV Short)
1959 The Watts Gnu Show (TV
Short) (producer)
1959Fractured Fairy Tales (TV
Series) (producer - 1 episode)
1959 1001 Arabian Nights
(dialogue director)
1959Terror Faces Magoo (Short)
(story)
1959Magoo's Homecoming (Short) (story)
1958Scoutmaster Magoo (Short) (story)
1957Magoo's Moose Hunt (Short) (story)
1956Destination Earth (Short) (story)
1956The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show (TV Series)
(adaptation - 1 episode)
1956 The Gerald McBoing-Boing
Show (TV Series)
1956Working Dollars (Documentary short)
(story)
1953-1955 The Ford Television Theatre (TV
Series) (original story - 2 episodes)
1954 It's Everybody's Business (Short) (story developer - as William
Scott)
1954 The Man on the Flying Trapeze (Short)
(story adaptation)
1954 Magoo Goes Skiing (Short) (story)
1953 Tom Schuler: Cobbler Statesman (Short)
(uncredited)
1953 The Tell-Tale Heart (Short) (story
adaptation)
1952 Captains Outrageous (Short) (screenplay)
/ (story)
1952 Pete Hothead (Short) (story)
1952 Pink and Blue Blues (Short) (story)
1952 Pete Hothead (Short
1952 The Dog Snatcher (Short)
1952 Sloppy Jalopy (Short) (story)
1952 Man Alive! (Documentary short) (story)
1952 Man Alive! (Documentary
short) (voice)
1951Rooty Toot Toot (Short) (story)
1951 Grizzly Golfer (Short) (story)
1951 Fuddy Duddy Buddy (Short) (story)
1951 Georgie and the Dragon (Short) (story)
1951 Barefaced Flatfoot (Short) (story)
1951The Family Circus (Short) (story)
1951 Bungled Bungalow (Short) (story)
1950 The Popcorn Story (Short) (story)
1950 Gerald McBoing-Boing (Short) (story
adaptation)
1950 Trouble Indemnity (Short) (story)
1950Giddyap (Short) (story)
1950 The Miner's Daughter (Short) (story)
Doubtfully blacklisted: Joshua Shelley
Joshua Shelley: To be very clear, if Shelley was blacklisted,
it was the studios who blacklisted him because of his union activities within
the Actor Guild. However, if in fact Shelley was ever blacklisted (He was named
as a communist union activist by Counter Attack Magazine in 1953) he was a very
busy blacklisted actor. Unlike most
actors, he was seldom unemployed in the 1950s.
It should also be made clear that Shelley was, for the first
25 years of his career, a stage actor. He had been in five broadways plays prior
to 1950 and was steadily employed on stage in Broadway from 1944 through 1949. He
had 4 TV credits prior to 1950 and 2 flim credits. Of his 71 screen credits
over the length of his career, only 4 were film.
In August of 1955 Shelley was called before the HUAC. He was
arrogant and combative, lying to the committee that he had been in “Thousands
of radio shows and hundreds of TV and stage shows.” He refused to say if he was a Communist
working in the Hollywood studio unions and chastised the Committee for “trying
to bring fear into the ranks of the Actors Equity”
1950
Repertory Theatre (TV Series)
Starlight Theatre (TV Series)
Don Ameche's Musical
Playhouse (TV Series)
The Liar (May 18, 1950 - May 27, 1950)
1949-1951
Studio One in Hollywood (TV Series)
1951-1952
Danger (TV Series)
Four Twelves Are 48 (Jan 17, 1951 - Jan 18, 1951)
1952
Police Story (TV Series)
Schlitz Playhouse (TV Series)
The Plot to Kidnap General Washington (TV Movie)
Treasury Men in Action (TV Series)
Mister Peepers (TV Series)
The Doctor (TV Series)
Omnibus (TV Series)
Video Theatre (TV Series)
1954
On Your Toes (Oct 11, 1954 - Dec 04, 1954)Stage play
The Girl in Pink Tights (Mar 05, 1954 - Jun 12, 1954)Stage play
1955
Play Phoenix '55 (May 23, 1955 - Jul 17, 1955) Stage play
1957
Play Simply Heavenly (Aug 20, 1957 - Oct 12, 1957) Stage play
Directed
1958
Decoy (TV Series)
The Plymouth Playhouse (TV Series)
1959
Play of the Week (TV Series) Director
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