People in Orson Beans class don’t
get blacklisted unless it’s the popular thing to do. Bean, r(Born Dallas
Frederick Burrows) was part of the old line-New England Burrows family. His
third cousin twice removed, was Calvin Coolidge. His father was a founding member
of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), a fund-raiser for the Scottsboro
Boys' defense, and a 20-year member of the campus police of Harvard College. Bean
graduated from the Cambridge Rindge and The Latin School in Boston.
Bean claimed he was placed on the
Hollywood blacklist for attending Communist Party meetings while dating a
member. “Basically I was blacklisted because I had a cute communist
girlfriend,” he said. However he was never actually out of work at all.
1952 Goodyear Television Playhouse
1952 Broadway Television Theatre
1952-1956 Westinghouse Studio One
1953-1954 John Murray Anderson's
Almanac (Dec 10, 1953 - Jun 26, 1954)
"Chinese Monologue"
written by Orson Bean(1953)
Men of Distinction (1953)
1954 Robert Montgomery Presents
1954–1963 The United States Steel
Hour
1955 How to Be Very, Very Popular (Film)
1955 The Best of Broadway
1955 The Elgin Hour
1955-1956 Will Success Spoil Rock
Hunter? (Broadway)
1956 Omnibus
1957 Nature's Way (Broadway)
1957 Kraft Television Theatre
1957 Playhouse 90
1958 The Phil Silvers Show
1958 The Millionaire
1958 The Phil Silvers Show
1959 Miracle on 34th Street
1959 Anatomy of a Murder (Film)
1959 The Newman Johnson Story