Morris Carnovsky

Morris Carnovsky was a stage and film actor. He was one of the founders of the  Communist front, the Group Theatre (1931-1940) Named as a communist, he left Hollywood in 1952. He left on his own accord. No matter what Wikipedia says, he wasn’t blacklisted largely because as a stage actor he didn’t really have a career in films.  From 1937 through 1949, he had small parts in 15 films and one television program. He made four films in 1950. In April of 1951, he appeared before the HUAC and refused to say whether he is or ever has been a Communist, even after HUAC investigator confronted him with his party ID card,  No. 43975.

1959

The World of Sholom Aleichem (TV Movie)

Play of the Week (TV Series)

1958

The Cold Wind and the Warm (Dec 08, 1958 - Mar 21, 1959)

1957

Nude With Violin (Nov 14, 1957 - Feb 08, 1958)

The Taming of the Shrew (Feb 20, 1957 - Mar 10, 1957)

Measure for Measure (Jan 22, 1957 - Feb 17, 1957)

1956

The Lovers (May 10, 1956 - May 12, 1956)

1955

Tiger at the Gates (Oct 03, 1955 - Apr 07, 1956)

1951

An Enemy of the People (Dec 28, 1950 - Jan 27, 1951)

1950

Cyrano de Bergerac (film)

The Second Woman(film)

Western Pacific Agent(film)

Gun Crazy(film)

Producer Mark Goodson

“In 1952, our panel show "I've Got a Secret" Henry Morgan was named in Red Channels, but for such a frivolous reason that no one -- not even CBS -- took it seriously. Morgan was essentially an apolitical curmudgeon who shot darts at any pompous balloon he saw floating by. Certainly he was no "Communist dupe." The closest he came to being duped was by his wife, who, Morgan told me, was a leftist sympathizer, and it was understood that one reason Morgan was getting a divorce was his aversion to Mrs. Morgan's politics. Thus he was listed in Red Channels as a result of a marital connection he was trying to terminate.

But R. J. Reynolds took the listing seriously. At least the William Esty agency did, and I was informed that Morgan would have to go. I'd done previous business with the two men in charge of the account -- reasonable, decent guys -- and paid them a visit. They agreed completely that the charge in Red Channels was nonsensical. But as they put it: "Camel cigarettes don't want to know from reasons. They're in the business of selling tobacco, and hostile mail will make Winston-Salem edgy." The account could be at risk. And for what? For one man? I left that meeting with an ultimatum: dump Morgan pronto or Reynolds would cancel.”

 At roughly the same time, over at ABC, I had another show called "The Name's the Same." For whatever reason, no doubt budgetary, ABC did not maintain an elaborate monitoring department, and it soon became clear that here was a venue where I could use otherwise blacklisted performers. I remember booking Judy Holliday, Jack Gilford and others who were not permitted appearances elsewhere. And I put Abe Burrows on as a regular.

Burrows was a brilliant comedy writer known for "Duffy's Tavern" on radio, and he was a co-author of "Guys and Dolls," the 1950 Broadway hit. But he still couldn't be used in television. During the war years Burrows had apparently taken part in cultural activities sponsored by Communists in California. To clear his name, he appeared twice before the House Un-American Activities Committee. The committee, after extensive hearings, released Burrows, apparently cleared, from further questioning. But the mere story of his appearance before the committee made headlines in the tabloid press, and Aware Inc., a group formed "to combat the Communist conspiracy in entertainment-communication," and the American Legion were not so forgiving. So when we booked Burrows on "The Name's the Same," it wasn't long before organized mail began to roll in. A sponsor of that program was a privately held Midwestern company, C. A. Swanson & Sons, makers of Swanson frozen TV dinners.

The mail demanding Burrows's expulsion continued to escalate. We were receiving upward of a thousand letters a week. I quietly dropped them in wastebaskets hoping that protest groups would tire of the battle. No such luck. The mail increased. In addition, the Catholic War Veterans began to picket the theater in New York where the show was broadcast. I kept waiting for a call from the sponsor, and it finally came from Omaha.

"Are you getting mail about Abe Burrows?" he asked. I conceded that we were. "We're getting a lot of it back here," he said, worried. "Is Burrows a Communist?" I replied that to my best knowledge he was not. "In that case, what's the shooting about?" he asked. I filled him in on Abe's story. "If that's what it's all about," he said, "forget it. If you feel like it, keep on using him."

In 1951 the Authors' League of America

In 1951 the Authors' League of America indicated that it had "positive proof" of blacklisting. Yet the majority of writers who "knew for sure" that blacklisting was rife declined to testify before the Federal Communications Commission. As Cogley said: "The dangers of reprisal are too great."

OR MAYBE IT JUST DIDN’T EXIST

Ossie Davis was never blacklisted

Stage actor Ossie Davis was named as a communist in Red Channels in 1953. In 1958  he subpoenaed to testify at a New York HUAC hearing. At no time in the decades of 1950s was he out of work.

1959

A Raisin in the Sun (Belasco Theatre, 1959) – Walter Lee Younger (replaced Sidney Poitier)

1957

Jamaica (Imperial Theatre, 1957) – Cicero

Montgomery Footprints (Local 1199, 1957)

writer

The Union Democracy Built (Local 1199, 1957)

writer

1956

*No Time for Sergeants (Alvin Theatre, 1956) – A Lieutenant (also Asst. Stage Manager, replaced Earle Hyman)

What Can You Say to Mississippi (Local 1199, 1956)

Writer

1955

Kraft Theatre (TV Series)

The Emperor Jones

The Emperor Jones (TV Movie)

The People of Clarendon County, Chicago: Third World Press, 2007 (Local 1199, 1955)

writer

1953

The Joe Louis Story

(uncredited)

Touchstone (The Music Box, 1953) – Dr. Joseph Clay

The Big Deal (New Playwrights Company, Yugoslav Hall, 1953)

writer

1952

Jezebel’s Husband (Westport, CT, pre-Broadway tryout tour, 1952)

Alice in Wonder (Elks Theatre, 1952)

Writer

1951

Fourteen Hours (uncredited)

 Showtime, U.S.A. (TV Series)

The Royal Family (City Center)

The Green Pastures (Broadway Theatre)

Remains to Be Seen (Morosco Theatre )

1950

No Way Out- uncredited

*The Wisteria Trees (Martin Beck Theatre)

Irwin Corey was never blacklisted.

Irwin Corey was never blacklisted. Cory was primarily a stand-up comic who worked the club circuit. He was a loud supporter of  Communist/Socialist left-wing politics. He was a dedicated supported of Cuban children and the American Communist Part. 

He said that when not performing, he panhandled for change from motorists exiting the Queens–Midtown Tunnel. Every few months, he told the interviewer, he donated the money to a group that purchased medical supplies for Cuban children. 

He said of the drivers who supplied the cash, “I don’t tell them where the money’s going, and I’m sure they don’t care.”

Cory liked to play the victim and complained that he blacklisted, in fact he never returned to Late Night with David Letterman after his first appearance in 1982, which he claimed was a result of the blacklist still being in effect.

He lived in an 1840 carriage house on East 36th Street estimated to cost in or about $4,000,000.00

He was drafted during World War II, but was discharged after six months, after he claimed he convinced an Army psychiatrist that he was a homosexual. he thought that was funny.

1959

The Phil Silvers Show (TV Series, two appearances )

The Jack Paar Tonight Show (TV Series)

One Night Stand (TV Series, two appearences)

1958

Omnibus (TV Series, two appearances)

The Jack Paar Tonight Show (TV Series, two appearances)

1957

The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (TV Series)

1956

The Edge of Night (TV Series)

The Jack Paar Tonight Show (TV Series)

The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (TV Series)

  

1954

Your Chevrolet Showroom (TV Series, appearances)

1953

Mrs. McThing (Feb 20, 1952 - Jan 10, 1953)

Broadway Play

1952

Mrs. McThing (Feb 20, 1952 - Jan 10, 1953)

Broadway Play

1951

Showtime, U.S.A. (TV Series)

General Electric Guest House (TV Series)

Cavalcade of Bands (TV Series)

Flahooley (May 14, 1951 - Jun 16, 1951)

Broadway play

1950

Cavalcade of Stars (TV Series, 2 appearances)

Happy as Larry (Jan 06, 1950 - Jan 07, 1950)

Broadway play

Bromberg had been “blacklisted” for a total of five month before he died.

Joseph Edward Bromberg wasborn Josef Bromberger, December 25, to a Jewish family in Temeschburg (Temesvár), Austria-Hungary (now Timișoara, Romania)

Bromberg made his screen debut in 1936 under contract to Twentieth Century-Fox who dropped him in 1941. After that he bounced around Hollywood picking work where he could. His last film, a walk on part, was in 1949.

In September 1950, Red Channels wrote, correctly, that Bromberg was a member of the American Communist Party. Elia Kazan later named him as a fellow traveler in the party. He was subpoenaed to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in June 1951 but refused to answer any questions. Later that year, he went to England, but died shortly after his arrival of a heart attack. He was working in theater on the day he died.

Communism was a virus that changed the course of the world forever

The Communist Party of Japan being shut down by order of General Douglas MacArthur for 30 days in Tokyo, Japan on June 26, 1950

Communist aggressive in Europe 1945-1991

And the col war was started

In 1946, George Kennan, then the American Deputy head of mission in Moscow, sent an 8000 word “Long Telegram”, which became the basis of US approach towards USSR is the Cold War. He warned US of Kremlin’s expansionist dreams, which, if unchecked, would shatter the principals on which US stands.

Harry Belafonte

Harry Belafonte’s Wikipedia page says he was “blacklisted during the McCarthy era” …Yeah, that’s a lie. Bear in mind, he was primarily a singer and stage performer who started his career in 1949.

1950

Signed with Jubilee Records.

1953

Debut at the jazz club the Village Vanguard

(Stage) John Murray Anderson's Almanac (Entire year)

(Film) Bright Road.(his first film)

Signed with RCA records

1954

(Musical album) "Mark Twain" And Other Folk Favorites 1954 which reached the number three slot on the Billboard charts

Wins a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Featured Role - Musical for "John Murray Anderson's Almanac."

(Film) Carmen Jones

1955

(Stage) 3 for Tonight (Entire year)

Empire Room of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel

(TV) General Electric Theater

(TV) Front Row Center

1956

 (Musical album) Calypso  

(Single) Calypso (Sold over 2 million copies in three month)

(Musical album) Belafonte

The 28th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special)

1957

(Musical album) Belafonte Sings Of The Caribbean

(Musical album) An Evening With Belafonte

(Musical album) The Versatile Mr. Belafonte    

(Recording single hit) Mary's Boy Child

(Film) Island in the Sun.

1958

(Musical album) Harry Belafonte à Paris

(Musical album) To Wish You A Merry Christmas                    

(Musical album) Belafonte Sings The Blues       

The Steve Allen Show

1959

(Film) Odds Against Tomorrow (co-producer)

 (Film) The World, The Flesh and The Devil (producer)

(Musical album) Belafonte At Carnegie Hall (Best seller for three years)  

(Musical album) Love Is A Gentle Thing

(Musical album) Lena Horne / Harry Belafonte - Porgy And Bess   

(Musical album) Belafonte At Carnegie Hall: The Complete Concert         

(Musical album) Excerpts From The Belafonte Carnegie Hall Concert         

(TV Special) Tonight With Belafonte

(Stage) Moonbirds (Star and producer)

(Stage) Belafonte at the Palace

(Broadway) Belafonte at the Palace (Dec 15, 1959 - Mar 1960)

Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes’ name was first submitted to HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) in 1944. The 2,000-page report accused Hughes of being involved in some way with 49 allegedly left-wing organizations.

On 26 March 1953, Hughes was called before HUAC to testify about his alleged involvement with the Communist Party.

Hughes was considered by many to be a “friendly” witness, and while he talked openly about his own political ideas (he had never joined the Communist Party, he explained, because the Party was “based on strict discipline and the acceptance of directives that I, as a writer, did not wish to accept”), but was careful not to name names.

Hughes effectively distanced himself from his previous involvement with leftist organizations, and his writing moved away from overtly political poems. He also omitted his more political poems from his Selected Poems (1959).

Dashiell Hammett

On 26 March 1953, Dashiell Hammett testified before HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee), where he was considered a hostile witness for refusing to answer questions for refusing to provide names of people he had associated with in organizations Senator Joseph McCarthy and HUAC considered dangerous to democracy.

Hammett had served in both WWI and WWII (he had volunteered for service in WWII, despite being 47 and still suffering from the tuberculosis he had contracted during WWI). After the War, Hammett had served as a chairman and President of the Civil Rights Congress (CRC), which tried to call attention to racial injustice in the US. The CRC was named a Communist organization in 1947.

The CRC posted bail for 11 men who were appealing convictions on conspiracy charges for “to advocate, abet, or teach the desirability of overthrowing the government.”

In 1951 Hammett was called to testify before Congress about the CRC’s involvement. Specifically, he refused to provide names of those who had contributed to the bail fund. Hammett invoked the Fifth Amendment but was cited for contempt and served 5 months in a Federal Prison.

Orson Bean wasn;t blacklisted

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           

No Reds

Atomic

I'm guessing its the guy in the purple

The Bomb

Artie Shaw was the main witness before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) on 4 May 1953 and was grilled by the committee on his membership in a number of organizations, including the Peace Congress.

“I see nothing wrong with having a bunch of people from different countries coming together and talking about peace,” Shaw, who had served 18 months in the US Navy during World War II, responded.

“Don’t you know that was a Communist fronted party?” the committee member asked.

“If you tell me about a Republican fronted one, I’ll join that,” Shaw replied.

Shaw believed he was brought before the committee due to his outspokenness, especially regarding capitalism. “Capitalism deserves to be debunked,” Shaw said. “You go to war with a country for a few dollars, but you won’t go to war to protect a citizen’s life. We’re out there to protect capital. That’s why I was hauled before HUAC, because I made the major mistake of thinking. Don’t ever do that, at least not in a public way.”

Shaw exiled himself to Spain shortly after his HUAC hearing. “Spain was one of the few countries in the world where nobody knew where you were or who you were,” Shaw said. “I did a lot of fishing, a lot of thinking, and some writing.” But after a few years, Shaw returned to America. “I’m not cut out to be an expatriate. I don’t like wine that much.”

Harry Moran wasn't blacklisted

Harry Morgan, and only Harry Moran, said he was “briefly” blacklisted after his name appeared in Red Channels. According to Morgan he was never a communist and was listed because his ex-wife Isobel Gibb was a leftist.

Morgan wrote “All her information came from friends whose conversation leaned sharply away from their relatively high incomes, which, apparently, they found to be embarrassing in a world that harbored poor people. Their chosen method of being helpful was to attend meetings at one another's homes and discuss the problems of the hungry hordes after dinner. I am not trying to be amusing; it's what they really did. A Party member was usually invited to lead the discussions. I was apolitical. To some, that meant that I was either stupid or "inner-directed"—which meant according to them that I didn't care about my fellow man. What I really didn't care about was the four or five of her friends who later became known as the Hollywood Ten.”

Morgan and Gibb were married in 1946 and separated in 1948.

 Morgan’s problem was that he poked the cage one to many times. He had appeared on the radio special Hollywood Fights Back on October 26th, 1947 with a bunch of other stars to speak-out against what they said was creeping style fascism in the US that was ending careers in Hollywood.  Most of the celebrities who were on the show later admitted to being members of the Communist party.  

Morgan then spoke at the 1947 Radio Correspondents' Association Dinner in front of an audience that included J. Edgar Hoover and President Truman. He made the two uncomfortable several times over the course of his speech. The biggest blow came with his remark, "Whenever it is quiet in Washington, you can count on the Un-American committee to issue a report. Maybe sometime later, when it has a chance, it will start gathering the facts."

The fact was Morgan wasn’t popular with the public and others in the business didn’t much like him either. The fact that he once punch his wife in the face didn’t help or his comments on women (Women should be very attractive and never taught to read. The trouble with the average woman is that she's a little below average. Since 90% of the women one meets seem to be constantly auditioning to become morons, and since half these people are women, it figures that 90% of them aren't too bright either.)

A different sort of black list

Have you ever heard a news story that was so phenomenally stupid, so tilted to the ridiculous left, so politically correct that you shake your head and think, “Who are these morons that come up with this stuff?” 

Well, here you go.

Mood Media provides the music selection heard in thousands of retail stores nationwide. As large as they are, Mood Media doesn’t understand the concept of undue censorship nor does it understand the principle of business staying the hell out of the political fray. I say that because some nitwit at the politically correct Mood Media decided to pull the song “It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" from their playlists.

Mood Media refused to say which part of that classic offended them. They are apparently that arrogant.  It was either the word “Pistol” in the song's third verse ("A pair of hop-a-long boots and a pistol that shoots/Is the wish of Barney and Ben.") or possibly that they feel the song enforces gender-specific gifts because Janice and Jen are getting boots while Barney and Ben, those bastards, are getting cap pistols.    

Mood Media assumes, I guess, that a song, any song, which is offensive…. to THEM….will hurt YOU.  They aren’t just intolerant anti-gun censors who can’t see a difference between boys and girls…..they’re CONCERNED intolerant censors who can’t see a difference between boys and girls. In other words, the intolerant dumb people at politically correct Mood Media are protecting you from thinking the wrong thoughts taken from a Christmas song.  Yep, politically correct Mood Media actually thinks your that stupid.

Mood Media is such an enormous company that they can pretty much change the popular culture at will.

Trust me, people, this is just the tip of the PC iceberg. The number of songs that will be censored in the next few years will be staggering. Watch and see.

Mood Media's clients include

Target

Claire's

Pandora

Hilton

Marriott

Hyatt

Kendra Scott Jewelry  

Aloft Hotels

Aria Sky and Terrace Lounge

Atlanta South Gastroenterology

Ben Sherman

Berripop Frozen Yogurt

Bikas Drive in

Clear Choice

Club Fitness

Crimson Cup Coffee and tea

Dominic’s Casual Italian

Ellwood Thompson’s

Enterprise Fitness and Personal Training Center

Foundry Park Inn and Spa

Franciscan Health Alliance

Fresh Dental

Great Lakes Ace Hardware

Growler USA

IKEA

J’s Red Hots

Jersey Mike’s Subs

Karl Lagerfeld

LA Famous Fried Chicken

Mama Fu's Asian House

Marshall’s Jewelers

Ninth Street Coffeehouse & Juice Bar

Pandora

Piscataqua Savings Bank

Primark

Qdoba Mexican Grill

Renewal by Andersen

Seaboard ACE Hardware

Stash’s Pizza

T-BONES Great American Eatery

The Body Shop

The North Face

The UPS Store

The Verve Hotel

The Y in Central Maryland

Vault Brewing Company

Enterprise Fitness and Personal Training Center

Foundry Park Inn and Spa

Franciscan Health Alliance

Fresh Dental

Great Lakes Ace Hardware

Growler USA

IKEA

J’s Red Hots

Jersey Mike’s Subs

Karl Lagerfeld

LA Famous Fried Chicken

Mama Fu's Asian House

Marshall’s Jewelers

McDonald’s of Yarmouth

Ninth Street Coffeehouse & Juice Bar

Pandora

Piscataqua Savings Bank

Primark

Qdoba Mexican Grill

Renewal by Andersen

Seaboard ACE Hardware

Stash’s Pizza

T-BONES Great American Eatery

The Body Shop

The North Face

The UPS Store

The Verve Hotel

The Y in Central Maryland

Vault Brewing Company