The Hollywood Blacklist Myth : Marsha Hunt wasn't blacklisted

Marsha Hunt wasn't blacklisted

In 1945, Marsha Hunt was on the board of the Screen Actors Guild. Two years later she joined the Committee for the First Amendment, a group, which was generally composed of non-Communist New Deal liberal Democrats, was hurt when it was subsequently revealed that Sterling Hayden had been a Communist Party member. Humphrey Bogart, who had been assured that the Committee membership had been vetted, and there were no Communists among its membership, was incensed by the revelation that Hayden was a Communist. There was a great deal of naïveté among Committee members such as Bogart, who did not know that Hollywood 10 members such as Alvah Bessie, John Howard Lawson, and Dalton Trumbo were known to be Communist Party members. Lauren Bacall later said that she, Bogart, and other Committee members had been duped by the Communists. "We didn't realize until much later that we were being used to some degree by the Unfriendly 10", she said.

On October 26, Hunt took part in Hollywood Fights Back, a star-studded radio program co-written by her husband protesting the activities of HUAC. Hunt recalled: We made our speeches and did a radio program called Hollywood Fights Back and came home thinking we'd been patriots and had defended our profession. If there were some communists among us that was their business and not ours.

The next day, Hunt flew with a group of about 30 actors, directors, writers, and filmmakers (including John Huston, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, and Danny Kaye) to Washington to protest the actions of HUAC.

In 1950, Hunt was named as a potential Communist or Communist sympathizer by Red Channels. According to popular opinion, her career fell apart because she was blacklisted. But the facts show that the 1950s were the busiest decade of her career.

1959

Grand Jury (TV Series)

Laramie (TV Series)

She played in a total of 14 episodes

1958

Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series)

1957-1958

Climax! (TV Series)

Matinee Theatre (TV Series)

Panic! (TV Series)

1957

Bombers B-52 Film

The O. Henry Playhouse (TV Series)

The 20th Century-Fox Hour (TV Series)

1955

A Word to the Wives... (Short)

1954With This Ring (Short)

1954

Diplomatic Passport

1953

The Ford Television Theatre (TV Series)

1952

The Happy Time film

1951

Cosmopolitan Theatre (TV Series)

1950-1951

Sure As Fate (TV Series)

Danger (TV Series)

Stage work

The Tunnel of Love (Feb 13, 1957 - Feb 22, 1958)

Isolde Poole - Replacement (Jan 10, 1958 - ?)

Legend of Sarah (Oct 11, 1950 - Nov 04, 1950)

Borned in Texas (Aug 21, 1950 - Aug 26, 1950)

The Devil's Disciple (Feb 21, 1950 - May 27, 1950)

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