The Hollywood Blacklist Myth : October 2021

Being named as a Communist caused John Garfield to have a heart attack.

Well, no, not really. Despite long-term heart problems, Garfield was a smoker and drink. When he died he was in the midst of a divorce. On the morning of May 20, Garfield, against his doctor's strict orders, played several strenuous sets of tennis with a friend, mentioning the fact that he had not been to bed the night before. He met actress Iris Whitney for dinner and afterward became suddenly ill complaining that he felt chilled. She took him to her apartment, where he refused to let her call a doctor and instead went to bed. The next morning, she found him dead.

Adelaide Klein

Adelaide Klein (July 8, 1900–March 18, 1983) was an actress who performed on radio, television, films, and the stage. She was best known for her dialects as a radio performer. Klein began her radio as a singer in the late 1920s. However, demand for her talents with dialect and as a character actress led her to acting full-time by 1933.

Klein performed in a variety of radio programs, including portraying Hilda, the maid in We, The Abbotts, Dragon Lady in Terry and the Pirates Agatha Meek in Meet Mr. Meek, and a Russian countess in The House on Q Street. She also was heard in Sometime Before Morning. Klein mastered use of 12 dialects in radio performances.

According to Wikipedia;

In the mid-1940s, Klein was active in the American Federation of Radio Artists (AFRA) and served as a delegate for New York at national conferences in 1943 and 1944.. Klein was one of 56 delegates for New York at national conferences in 1943 and 1944, where she worked with others, including Donna Keath, Minerva Pious, Ann Shepherd, Selena Royle, and Hester Sondergaard.

Klein was listed in the blacklisting publication, Red Channels: The Report of Communist Influence in Radio and Television in 1950. She continued to perform in theatre, but television roles dried up as a consequence of Klein being labelled a communist.”

Well, no. That’s not true at all. Klein, a radio vice over actor since the 1920s, had a small career in TV and film, a career never really too off at all. By 1952, when her career essentially ended, she was 49 years old, ancient by Hollywood standards, and played mostly bit part, going unaccredited in several of her prime time appearances.

1964 The Troublemaker (Film)

1963 Marathon '33 (Theater)

1958 Decoy (TV Series)

1958 Jane Eyre (Theater)

1955. Once Upon A Tailor (Theater)

1954 The Immoralist (Theater)

1952 Collector's Item Theater

1951 Two Girls Named Smith (TV Series)

1951-1952 Lights Out (TV Series) She made three appearances in three different episodes

1951 Somerset Maugham TV Theatre (TV Series) She made three appearances in three different episodes.

1949-1951 The Clock (TV Series) She appeared in two episodes

1951 The Enforcer (Film)

1951 Two Girls Named Smith (TV Series)

1950 The Web (TV Series)

1950 Hands of Mystery (TV Series)

1950 The Philco Television Playhouse (TV Series)

1950 The Ford Theatre Hour (TV Series)

1949 Studio One (TV Series) Uncredited in two episodes that she appeared in.

1949 The Boris Karloff Mystery Playhouse (TV Series)

1949 The Big Story (TV Series)

1949 Suspense (TV Series)

1949 C'-Man (TV Series)

1949 The Guiding Light (Radio)

1948 The Naked City (Film)

1946 Lights Out (Film)

1942 Uncle Harry (Theater)

1941 Brooklyn USA (Theater)

1936 Double Dummy. (Theater)

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