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

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

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 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'

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 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

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