If you look at her filmography, Lee Grant was able to keep working throughout the 50s through early 60s when it fell out of effect. Not many notable roles but she was able to keep working.
She was until she ruined her face. She is the biggest whiner. Many of them kept working, not always in movies, but elsewhere or in European movies. Big deal. Lousy jerks.
The New York Television blacklist wasn't enforced in the strict way that the Hollywood blacklist was in the first few years. But over the course of 12 years, and right after a huge breakout and Oscar nomination for Detective Story, Lee Grant only did a few independent films (therefore they were exempt from the blacklist) a short-lived stint on a recurring series, and a handful of live television plays, all filmed in New York. With the recurring series, she was fired in 1953 because an owner of a company that advertised their product on the tv channel it played on complained that a blacklisted actor was on the show and got her removed. With regards to the live television plays, those were put together by brave independent producers, and the few channels that aired those live plays were just brave enough to air television content that had people from the blacklist involved.
Lee Grant said she was the only woman have a career again at the se level as before after being blacklisted. Barbara Bel Geddes, Kim Hunter, and Ruby Dee were all Blacklisted Lee Grant needed to get over herself.
She's telling like it is. As a matter of fact, Lee Grant said she was the only woman have a career again at the se level as before after being blacklisted. Barbara Bel Geddes, Kim Hunter and Ruby Dee were blacklisted. In addition, other artists such as Disney's Pat Benatar, Neil Giraldo, Elaine and Donna Wilkes, Judy Kuhn, Patti Cohenour, Joanna Barnes, Richard Masur, Lucy Liu, Lisa Nicole Carson, Daryl Hannah, Hilary Swank, Madeleine Stowe, Monique, Katherine and Josh Kelley, Brenda Strong, Anna and Curt Behlmer, Debbie Shapiro Gravitte, Beau Gravitte, Miss Pat Carroll among others were also blacklisted. From Fall 1985-present, many of Disney's newest players were finding lots of great assignments to work for the studio.
I saw Robert Taylor stand up as a friendly witness and tell the committee that he saw and heard certain Hollywood personalities act or say things that seemed unpatriotic ( I think those were his words). It seemed as though he wasn't adversely affected by that professionally; but I myself think I would have shunned him for the remainder of his life in film.
Larry Parks, an Academy Award nominee for Best Actor for The Jolson Story, was destroyed in terms of his Hollywood career, and John Garfield, a highly regarded star of numerous films, was negatively impacted and died before the age of 40. Lee Grant ultimately returned to Hollywood in the TV series Peyton Place and won an Oscar for Shampoo. Some actors returned to prominence, including Zero Mostel and Jack Gilford. Elia Kazan, the Oscar winning director, continued his career after naming names.
I can see this so familiar to nowadays be Republican and being on the Blacklist. No one wants to say they are Republican, especially in Hollywood or New York.
@JA G - Yeah, sure! Conservatives are just being pathetic about being "victims" of so-called "liberal bias or conspiracy" these days! What a load of crock on that!
I am a Primetime Emmy nominee, grand nephew of Herbert Biberman (salt of the earth) and Edward Biberman (Abbot Kinney mural in the Venice CA Post Office)- grandson of Abner Biberman and Harry Sacher. I can tell you from personal familial experience that Herbert Biberman and Harry Sacher were both COMMUNIST TRAITORS in league with the Comintern. Luke Sacher (google my name)- born 1960.
@@soapbxprod I didn't have to Google your name to discover that you're crazy. All it took was a quick read-through of your comment above. Nevertheless, supporting evidence came to light when I took your advice and found that you're a member of a bizarre cult called the Free State Project whose avowed goal is or was to import 20,000 dedicated right-wing fanatics to New Hampshire with the goal of dismantling the state and subjecting the populace to a reign of lawlessness and possible secession. Anything you have to say about Herbert Biberman has to be weighed against these facts.
Lee Grant, has written her memoirs. They are supposed to be released in the fall of next year. Anxiously await to read them. I have always found her fascinating.
IDIOT. I am a Primetime Emmy nominee, grand nephew of Herbert Biberman (salt of the earth) and Edward Biberman (Abbot Kinney mural in the Venice CA Post Office)- grandson of Abner Biberman and Harry Sacher. I can tell you from personal familial experience that Herbert Biberman and Harry Sacher were both COMMUNIST TRAITORS in league with the Comintern. Luke Sacher (google my name)- born 1960.
Exactly as I describe it in my book Jesse James Soul Liberty, Behind the Family Wall of Stigma & Silence in my chapter on Jesse's cousin Daniel Lewis James who was blacklisted as a Communist with Norma Barzman in this film short and her husband Ben. Dan's daughter Barbara James gives a riveting firsthand account in my book of Hollywood under government siege when two men in dark suits and snap-brim hats showed up unexpectedly at the James home in Hollywood on a sunny morning. Dan's screenwriting career and success as co-screenwriter of The Great Dictator expired in slow motion. He went underground writing B-movies like Gorgo. It should not be forgotten that serving among HUAC persecutors was Richard M. Nixon.
This whole issue of kazan and the blacklisted people in Hollywood is so interesting and such a crazy situation. These people made the mistake of association with communist ideals....at least thats how it sounds from these people. Kazan probably felt he was doing the right pro American stance against the idea of communism and stating the names. But in the end there it is...no one wins.
They were most likely very much misled about the Party, and its control from Moscow, but the leaders certainly knew, and one only had to ask around to find out it was basically a cult you could not escape from, just like Scientology.
What a disgraceful time; one of many in the US. This is not to say, other countries are innocent; it's abhorrent to me that there's so many injustices in this world. If only they all stuck together and boycotted the studios etc, that would have put some fear into them and they would have relented, I'm sure about that. Question is, could it happen again in this era? I suppose anything is possible, but I doubt it very much. Let's hope so anyway.
I am a Primetime Emmy nominee, grand nephew of Herbert Biberman (salt of the earth) and Edward Biberman (Abbot Kinney mural in the Venice CA Post Office)- grandson of Abner Biberman and Harry Sacher. I can tell you from personal familial experience that Herbert Biberman and Harry Sacher were both COMMUNIST TRAITORS in league with the Comintern. Luke Sacher (google my name)- born 1960.
I would have been sent to Jail😤🤬😢12 years of not working like Lee Grant or opportunities that never came again. They who refused to name names kept their code of conduct. Eli Kazan I cannot say the same 🤨🤨🤨
+Martin Möller Your evidence, please? You just accused them of being criminals. What crime was committed? Do you have evidence or are you just throwing around accusations like the other crypto-fascists on the HUAC?
+victorseastrom The evidence is shown in 1.000s of books, documentations, sentences, declarations of authorities and so and and so on and so on. It is very stupid to ask.
Personally, I am in sympathy with the victims of Hollywood blacklist by courtesy of the House Un-American Activities committee, and the biggest bastard of all, Joseph McCarthy! It was an unfortunate time for people whose political beliefs were questioned by the powers that were in Washington for 30 years! I will never forgive the right-wing numbnuts for having too much power in bringing an inquisition of the innocent!
"Red list" means a list of both people and things that are not permitted. They had been informed that everyone was on a list that barred them from entering the country. But victims of Hollywood's blacklist including Emmy winner Katherine Kelley, Oscar winners Mel Gibson, Brendan Fraser, Mira Sorvino and Monique along with both Judith Aronson and Elaine Armstrong of Paramount/Viacom and Camille Fielding, Miss Elaine Wilkes and Philip Charles & Alison MacKenzie of the Walt Disney Company.
Marsha Hunt and Lee Grant were absolutely drop dead gorgeous looking women in their heyday. A terrible time in US history blacklisting anyone without proof.
@themailman43 It is not the same thing. McCartyism was an ideology of practicing treason with proof. Today's supposed blacklisting of talent is from the majority of accusations and proof of the METOO movement. I don't follow when you say conservative? Any artist can get swept up into this.
@themailman43 It is a movement of extreme leftist ideology I don't subscribe to. But you can come across as judgmental and accusatory being a right winger. What about the years of Right wing Hollywood under Ronald Reagan, Clint Eastwood, George W Bush, Arnie and DW Griffith? Economic inequality, no gun control and social injustice portrayed thru various films. Look back what John Wayne said about native Americans! It's all a political movement that eventually passes over.
You're confusing an heterogeneous array of political thought (leftist or socialist views) with plain Stalinism. I have always wondered if the standard American citizen (like yourself) does this out of ignorance or ill faith. In any case, this form of reductionist approach was instrumental, during Macarthism, to the destruction of people's lives due to their beliefs.
To make matters either better or worse the former Academy Award nominated screenwriting/producing team of Bruce A. Evans and Raymond Gideon, best known for their only Oscar nominated writing/producing efforts on Stand by Me for Sony Pictures Entertainment but what happens afterward that the team whose credits were Starman and Made in Heaven (which Alan Rudolph has clashed with the writing/producing team as well as the cast and crew). So does Assassins (which Richard Donner has the same problem of all of his pictures since 1978’s Superman).
Looking into everyone here and in the Hollywood Ten, the blacklisting did basically nothing. Some people were never able to work in Hollywood but most of the time they just took up a pseudonym or continued business as usual. HUAC was a joke
@@nonenoneonenonenone That's what happened to both Steve Kampmann & Will Porter, the former writing duo who have great success in adapting "The Couch Trip" (1988) with Sean Stein and Walter Bernstein at Orion Pictures, M-G-M's parent company. But in later years, both of them didn't enjoy writing screenplays such as "Clifford," an unreleased film for Orion was a box office bomb in 1991 which finally coming to an end for both accomplished artists. But anyway, my comment simply works great!
It's not fair, even media Einterteinmemt had power unlimited, but art is not politic EU nazis socialism, is in USA seen as same regimes as commonism, socialist nationalism But dear, artist, ..... The wall fall, was political, masses broke, out from a nation camp I think, USA was frighten in a way, not logic
This was one of the first movies in which Hollywood started to make a fist against the Roy Cohn's and the Sen. McCarthy's: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kaL_H8AWPY4.html
@@SomeHarbourBastard Yeah it was the HOUSE on Unamerican Activities not a Senate Committee. It's amazing how so many people think McCarthy was involved when he was a Senator not a Congressman.
@@NclinedMuzaclly neither capitalism or socialism are worth any intelligent persons time. Either one your just shackled to some master. Both are unworthy of real men.
Up till the end of the coldwar communism was a huge threat to democracy so i have no problem with these Actors getting black balled...Anyway it is happening with actors today only it's conservatives who get blacklisted.
@St. Apollonius - I am sick and tired of people like you defending the HUAC for blacklisting those who don't really deserve it! FUCK CONSERVATISM and it's flunkies in the Republican Party!
