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 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
Kim Hunter wasn't blacklister either
Hunter took a
supporting role in the Ginger Rogers film ''Tender Comrade,'' about young women
living communally during World War II, a film that was, beyond a doubt, pro-Soviet.
It was cited, years later, as a reason that her name appeared in ''Red Channels,''
a 1950's pamphlet naming suspected Communist sympathizers.
Hunter said
she traced her problems with the blacklist to a world peace symposium that she
helped sponsor in 1949.
''Gradually
it became sort of clear,'' she said. ''I think CBS was first. I was on the
blacklist at CBS. No more CBS television. Then I think ABC dropped out and
then, finally, it was NBC. And then by that time, I won my Oscar for the movie
of 'Streetcar,' but I could not work in films. The last film I made was in
1951.''
She said her hiatus from the screen lasted until 1956, however
the record says otherwise.
1959
Adventures in Paradise (TV Series)
The Lineup (TV Series)
Rawhide (TV Series)
The Arthur Murray Party (TV Series)
1958
Rendezvous (TV Series)
Alcoa Theatre (TV Series)
Money, Women and Guns (Film)
Lamp Unto My Feet (TV Series)
Make Me Laugh (TV Series)
Studio One in Hollywood (TV Series)
1957
Art Ford's Greenwich Village Party
(TV Series)
Person to Person (TV Series
documentary)
The Kaiser Aluminum Hour (TV Series)
The Young Stranger (Film)
1956
The Joseph Cotten Show: On Trial (TV
Series)
Studio 57 (TV Series)
Bermuda Affair (Film)
Storm Center (Film)
1955
1955-1958 Climax! (TV Series)
Lux Video Theatre (TV Series)
Screen Directors Playhouse (TV Series)
Star Tonight (TV Series)
Appointment with Adventure (TV
Series)
Justice (TV Series)
Omnibus (TV Series)
Hollywood Preview (TV Series)
Igor Cassini's Million Dollar
Showcase (TV Series)
1954
Janet Dean, Registered Nurse (TV
Series)
The Tender Trap (Broadway)
She was pregnant in
1954 and gave birth to a son later that year.
1953
The Gulf Playhouse (TV Series)
The 25th Annual Academy Awards (TV
Special)
1952
The Chase (Stage)
The Children’s Hour (Stage)
Darkness at Noon [Broadway]
Anything Can Happen (Film)
Deadline - U.S.A. (Film)
Celanese Theatre (TV Series)
The Petrified Forest (Film)
Robert Montgomery Presents (TV
Series)
A Streetcar Named Desire (Film)
1951
Your Show of Shows (TV Series)
The Tender Trap (Stage)
Darkness at Noon (Stage)
Luba (Stage original)
1950
1948-1950 Actor's Studio (TV Series)
The Little Wife
(1950)
Charles Irving wasn't blacklisted either
If actor Charles Irving
(Zipperman) was blacklisted, its difficult to tell what he was blacklisted
from. At best, his early career is lackluster and his later career after 959
didn’t improve much.
He entered show business in 1942.
From 1942 through 1949, he made seven credits.
He was an uncredited voice in five of them. Six were film short and one
was a television show. Not much changed
in his career during the time he was supposed to have been blacklisted and not
working. From 1950 through 1958, he had 9 screen credits. He was an uncredited
voice in 7 of them which were all shorts. In 1958 he did a walk-on on the
Milton Berle Show and had a role in one film, A Face in the Crowd, in 1957
1958
The Milton Berle Show (TV Series)
Record Company Executive
- Episode dated 19 November 1958
(1958) ... Record Company Executive
1957
1957A Face in the Crowd
Mr. Luffler
1953
1953Invention Convention (Short)
Narrator (voice, uncredited)
1952
1952Off We Glow (Short)
Narrator (voice, uncredited)
1951
1951Miners Forty-Niners (Short)
Narrator (voice, uncredited)
1951Drippy Mississippi (Short)
Narrator (voice, uncredited)
1951Tweet Music (Short)
1950
Narrator (voice, uncredited)
1950Helter Swelter (Short)
Narrator (voice, uncredited)
1950Blue Hawaii (Short)
Charles Korvin wasn't blacklisted
Charles Korvin was a Hungarian
born actor who moved to the US in 1940. According to the New York Times Korvin was
blacklisted around 1951 for refusing to cooperate with the House Committee on
Un-American Activities and did not work in Hollywood for 10 years, until the
director Stanley Kramer invited him to be in his 1965 film ''Ship of Fools.''
Well, no.
From 1944, the year of his first
US film, until 1951, he made only five films and five television appearances.
From 1952 until 1959 he made 34 television appearances and four films. Pretty
good for a guy who was blacklisted.
I could find no record of Korvin
being called before the HUAC, ever.
The Loretta Young Show (TV
Series)
Leo Unten / Boleslaw Sublinski
- The Night the Doorbell Rang
(1960) ... Leo Unten
- Friends at a Distance (1957)
... Boleslaw Sublinski
1959-1960Interpol Calling (TV Series)
Inspector Duval / Inspector Paul
Duval
- The Absent Assassin (1960) ...
Inspector Duval
- Pipeline (1960) ... Inspector
Duval
- Desert Hi-Jack (1960) ...
Inspector Duval
- Cargo of Death (1960) ...
Inspector Duval
- Dressed to Kill (1960) ...
Inspector Duval
Show all 39 episodes
1958Zorro (TV Series)
Jose Sebastian Varga 'The Eagle'
- The Eagle's Flight (1958) ...
Jose Sebastian Varga 'The Eagle'
- Bernardo Faces Death (1958) ...
Jose Sebastian Varga 'The Eagle'
- The Eagle Leaves the Nest
(1958) ... Jose Sebastian Varga 'The Eagle'
- The Sergeant Regrets (1958) ...
Jose Sebastian Varga 'The Eagle'
- The Tightening Noose (1958) ...
Jose Sebastian Varga 'The Eagle'
Show all 6 episodes
1957-1958Playhouse 90 (TV Series)
Marquis / Dr. Von Neff
- The Violent Heart (1958) ...
Marquis
- The Blackwell Story (1957) ...
Dr. Von Neff
1957The Alcoa Hour (TV Series)
Von Zimmer
- Hostages to Fortune (1957) ...
Von Zimmer
1957The Ford Television Theatre (TV Series)
Bruce Van Cleve
- Singapore (1957) ... Bruce Van
Cleve
1957Studio 57 (TV Series)
- Explosion (1957)
1957Robert Montgomery Presents (TV Series)
Rupert Farrand
- The Last Train to Kildevil
(1957) ... Rupert Farrand
1957The Millionaire (TV Series)
Anton Bohrman / Anton Kosleck
- The Anton Bohrman Story (1957)
... Anton Bohrman / Anton Kosleck
1956Omnibus (TV Series)
Narrator (segment "The
Spirit of Freedom")
- The Christmas Tie (1956) ...
Narrator (segment "The Spirit of Freedom")
1956Thunderstorm
Pablo Gardea
1956The Honeymooners (TV Series)
Carlos Sanchez
- Mama Loves Mambo (1956) ...
Carlos Sanchez (uncredited)
1955-1957Climax! (TV Series)
Dr. Andre Demerre / General Steck
- The Stranger Within (1957) ...
Dr. Andre Demerre
- The Passport (1955) ... General
Steck
1955The United States Steel Hour (TV Series)
Heinrich Bauer
- Scandal at Peppernut (1955) ...
Heinrich Bauer
1954Crown Theatre with Gloria Swanson (TV
Series)
- If Speech Be Silvern (1954)
1953The Philip Morris Playhouse (TV Series)
- The Sacrifice (1953)
1953Sangaree
Felix Pagnol
1952Lydia Bailey
Col. Gabriel D'autremont
1952Tarzan's Savage Fury
Rokov, Russian Agent
1950-1957Studio One in Hollywood (TV Series)
Philip Hausman / El Cameron /
Gastman / ...
- The Dark Intruder (1957) ...
Philip Hausman
- Johnny August (1956) ... El
Cameron
- The Judge and the Hangman
(1955) ... Gastman
- Fatal in My Fashion (1954)
- A Man and Two Gods (1954) ...
Julian Wilder
Show all 7 episodes
Mickey Knox seems to have blackisted himself.
Mickey Knox (Born Abraham
Bullistein) Claimed he was blacklisted during the McCarthy era and was forced
to move to Paris and Rome to work. But there is something not right about his
story.
Knox, who at best was a bit part
player and extra, claimed that he was blacklisted because he signed a petition called
“The Thomas Rankin Committee Must Go” and that he had attended the Actor’s Lab,
a Communist front. He said that his signature on a friends of the court document
to the US Supreme Court to hear the case against John Howard Lawson and Dalton
Trumbo, who were writers with the Hollywood Ten, is the true reason his career
was blacklisted. But more than a thousand actors signed the Rankin petition and
several hundred actors signed the Supreme
Court petition and they weren’t blacklisted.
Knox said that he learned he was
blacklisted in 1956. He made his last appearance in the US in the fall of 1957,
so it’s safe to assume he left the US
later that year. He returned to the US
from Europe on January 23, 1959, meaning he was “exiled” as he put it,
for two years.
It seems that Knox couldn’t cut
it as an actor, producer or writer in Hollywood (He would do all of those
things later in his career) and he “fled”
to Europe claiming to be a blacklisted actor.
Knox made six film in 1949 and
was uncredited in one of them and fewer than 3 lines in the others. He made one
film in 1948, a bit part and two in 1947
1950
Destination Big House
Western Pacific Agent
Outside the Wall
1951
1Saturday's Hero
Criminal Lawyer
Danger (TV Series)
Up Front
No credits for 1952
1953
Campbell Summer Soundstage (TV
Series)
Vice Squad (uncredited)
1954
Garden of Eden
1955
The Naked Street (Actor)
Man in Crowd (uncredited)
Treasury Men in Action (TV
Series)
TV Reader's Digest (TV Series)
The Lone Ranger (TV Series)
Dan Reid's Sacrifice
The Naked Street (dialogue
director)
1956
Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal (TV
Series)
Adventures of Superman (TV
Series)
Singing in the Dark (Actor)
Singing in the Dark (dialogue
director)
1957
The Sea Wall (dialogue coach)
1957
Norman Lloyd wasn't blacklisted or gray listed or any other kind of listed that would harm his career
Norman
Lloyd (born Norman Perlmutter; November 8, 1914) called
“A marginal victim of the Hollywood blacklist” but even that isn’t true. There
isn’t one year in the entire 1950s when Lloyd wasn’t gainfully employed in
Hollywood.
1950
King Lear (Stage)
December 25, 1950 – February 3, 1951
Buccaneer's Girl (Director)
The Flame and the Arrow (Director)
Apollo (Film-actor)
Buccaneer's Girl (Film actor)
1951
The Cocktail Party (director)
The Adventures of Kit Carson (TV Series)
The Light Touch
He Ran All the Way
M
Flame of Stamboul
1952
The Lady's Not for Burning (director)
1952-1955
Omnibus (TV Series) (6 episodes)
Chevron Theatre (TV Series) (8 episodes)
Gruen Guild Theater (TV Series) (3 episodes)
Limelight (Film-actor)
1953
I Am a Camera (director)
1954
Madame Will You Walk (Stage)
Madame Will You Walk (director)
The Winslow Boy (Director)
The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (TV Series) (3 episodes)
The Caine Mutiny (Broadway-1954-1955)
1955
Don Juan in Hell (Stage)
The Rainmaker (Director)
Word to the Wives... (Short)
The Caine Mutiny (Broadway-1954-1955)
1956
Measure for Measure (Stage)
The Taming of the Shrew (Director)
The United States Steel Hour (TV Series)
Kraft Theatre (TV Series)
1957
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV series) Producer 1957-1962 184
episodes
The Joseph Cotten Show: On Trial (TV series)
General Electric Theater (TV series)
Suspicion (TV Series) (assistant to the producer - 6 episodes,
1957 - 1958) (assistant to producer - 1 episode, 1957)
1958
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV
series)
1959
Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond (TV series)
Doubtfully Blacklisted : Paula Miller (Strasberg)
Paula Strasberg was 49 at the
height of the blacklist era, ancient for a female actress in Hollywood
standards of the day. Strasberg has no film or television credits prior to the
late 1960s and had last appeared on Broadway in 1948. If anything, her film and TV credit resume was
developed during the 1950s. She worked in 1957, as a dialogue coach for Marilyn
Monroe in The Prince and the Showgirl and again in 1959 on Some Like It Hot.
She appeared on The Arlene Francis Show in 1957.
Doubtfully blacklisted: Lesley Woods.
Lesley Woods. Wood had no prior
film/TV credits prior to 1951. Prior to that, she was a radio actress with a
brief stint in theater. She was not called before the HUAC and there is no
mention of her being blacklisted in the 1950s except the same sources that
allege she was blacklisted but share no evidence.
1959
Young Doctor Malone TV
1958
True Story TV
2 episodes
1956
Robert Montgomery Presents TV
2 episodes
The Edge of Night TV
1951
The Guiding Light TV
1950
The Search for Tomorrow TV
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