The Hollywood Blacklist Myth : Doubtfully Blacklisted: Leon Janney.

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)

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