Hollywood was always red: a rant

1:03 - "I wouldn't characterize my beliefs as Communist beliefs [anymore]..."

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.

@nonenoneonenonenone

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@sue5158

Жыл бұрын

They stopped her momentum. And that of sooo many others. We are the ones who lost out on what they may have created. Shameful

@brit888

8 ай бұрын

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.

@markelijio6012

2 ай бұрын

@@sue5158 Touche, you got me there.

Now in 2020 the actors and journalists participate gleefully in cancel culture black listing.

@thegoodguywins1

2 жыл бұрын

Doesn’t compare to the Red Scares 👍

@sburgos9621

2 жыл бұрын

@@thegoodguywins1 It is far worse, but soon it will be over and those responsible will wish for those days.

@markelijio6012

Жыл бұрын

Such as Cliff Carpenter, Norma Barzman, Walter Bernstein, Lee Grant and Marsha Hunt in their separate interviews about culture black listing.

The frightening thing is it can happen again. Americans tend to panic & freak out.

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.

@standupphilosopher7059

Жыл бұрын

This is truth. I believe Trumbo wrote in secret until Spartacus.

@markelijio6012

Жыл бұрын

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.

Amazing %!

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.

@marioarguello6989

7 ай бұрын

So Taylor did his duty, and you think he was wrong. Says a lot about you.

The choice to use Bartok 7 in the background was excellent. Well done!

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.

@seanramsdell4172

7 жыл бұрын

In other words, a mixed legacy?

@markelijio6012

2 ай бұрын

@@seanramsdell4172Yes, lots of mixed legacies and feelings here. Everyday in my life.

Analyzing

What do these people think of Jonathan Pollard?

@MarkEliasGrant

3 ай бұрын

What of him? He was a spy for Israel.

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.

@nonenoneonenonenone

2 жыл бұрын

I haven't for a long-time. Loudmouth feminist crap pot.

They weren't victims. There were villains.

The National team????....

Can someone please list the names of these people, in the order in which they appear?...thanks...

Say what you want.... but they didn't snitch.

They need to blacklist all media now .

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!

@anti-ethniccleansing465

3 жыл бұрын

You have no business living in the USA with such views. I surely hope you live in a commun.ist country if you believe the BS you just said!

WTH happened to Lee Grant's mug?

@soapbxprod

6 жыл бұрын

she's OLD... very old.

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 🤨🤨🤨

Word of advice: always!!ALWAYS RESPECT YOUR ELDERS

Greate garbo,, could she be lost in EU Copenhagen

CONGRESS is to blame! All!!! That money! Patten office! Post office! Im not calling: the FBI again?

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: kzread.info/dash/bejne/nZWAwapxcbq2iZc.html

@SomeHarbourBastard

2 жыл бұрын

McCarthy had nothing to do with Hollywood. The charge was led by lifelong Democrat, Union man, Roy Brewer.

@jokerz7936

2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

😘Marsha Hunt

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.

Why are all these actors from the 40s

@limesandlemons1367

2 жыл бұрын

Because that's when the Red Scare happened????

@caseyjones831

2 жыл бұрын

Why is your brain made of pudding

@briancannon3987

2 жыл бұрын

@@caseyjones831 I could tell u but I doubt u actually care. Troll

@caseyjones831

2 жыл бұрын

@@briancannon3987 pudding head

@briancannon3987

2 жыл бұрын

@@caseyjones831 I know ur are but what am I Fcking child

This reminds me of the Salem Witch Trials

@sarahmoviereviewer4109

6 жыл бұрын

Chris Wilson it's a witch Hunt kinda

@soapbxprod

6 жыл бұрын

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.

@SomeHarbourBastard

2 жыл бұрын

As Kazan put it. Those witches didn’t exist, Communists do.

@LoudaroundLincoln

2 жыл бұрын

@@SomeHarbourBastard no need to go about ruining folks careers over it though. Seems petty and vindictive and alot of effort for no returns.

what a sorry time for Hollywood..and even worse...innocent people.

@soapbxprod

6 жыл бұрын

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.

And of course it had to be called “blacklisted” why not redlisted?

@markelijio6012

4 ай бұрын

"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.

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

2 жыл бұрын

It was no joke. But their complaining was a bad joke. So they used pseudonyms, they fell off the top of the pyramid, but they were still on it.

@markelijio6012

Жыл бұрын

It's no joke to us, okay?

OMG....rich people.....sniveling about their own conduct and how it effected them.

@thelessimportantajmichel287

5 жыл бұрын

sir So you clearly didn’t watch the video then.

@keithchun3973

4 жыл бұрын

Right wing propaganda response - page 1. Nice.

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.

@robertpolanco1973

5 жыл бұрын

@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!

Could someone please think about the rich, white, privileged people? 😢

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.

@nonenoneonenonenone

2 жыл бұрын

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.

Why live in a capitalism country

@MexicanBandit

3 жыл бұрын

I don’t know, ask the North Koreans or the Cubans 🤷🏻‍♂️

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.

@soapbxprod

6 жыл бұрын

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.

@anti-ethniccleansing465

3 жыл бұрын

@Mazxj Stripes I agree 100%!!

It’s happening again only now it’s trump supporters.

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

Another victim of the subject: Paul Robeson

@nonenoneonenonenone

2 жыл бұрын

And very well-deserved.

@alexanderscott2456

Жыл бұрын

He was an unrepentant Communist and a supporter of a totalitarian ideology that consumed 1/3 of the globe.

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.

@mrjones29

4 жыл бұрын

@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.

@mrjones29

4 жыл бұрын

@themailman43 You have your opinion. That's fine.

@mrjones29

4 жыл бұрын

@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.

what's so good about socialism?

@NclinedMuzaclly

4 жыл бұрын

Joshua Jones not one thing it's disgusting

@Maverick.D.

2 жыл бұрын

Literally everything.

@LoudaroundLincoln

2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

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@shirleygregg.smallwood2489

3 жыл бұрын

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@shirleygregg.smallwood2489

3 жыл бұрын

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Nowadays is weinstein Blacklist, tolegy,,

The irony of all this is they felt as though their right to believe in such an anti freedom of expression regime was infringed upon.

@nataliemontgomery1967

3 жыл бұрын

what's more anti-freedom of expression than blacklisting people who expressed opinions that went against capitalism?

@fabianmosquera5844

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@nonenoneonenonenone

2 жыл бұрын

@@nataliemontgomery1967 The blacklisted were blacklisting people like Kazan, so there.

@nonenoneonenonenone

2 жыл бұрын

@@fabianmosquera5844 Many sympathizers utterly believed in Stalin and refused to give up their hero worship of him.

These people are not victims, they belong to the worst criminals of mankind.

@victorseastrom

8 жыл бұрын

+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?

@martinmoller5591

8 жыл бұрын

+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.

@hyzercreek

7 жыл бұрын

Communists have killed 100,000,000 people in the past century.

@hyzercreek

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, because they would have killed 100,000,000 Americans to get power. You idiot. Fuck you pinko devil.

@martinmoller5591

7 жыл бұрын

@Kenneth sloan: You are pinko devil

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.

@Dhumm81

5 жыл бұрын

Communism was/is a threat to CAPITALISM, *not* democracy.

@robertpolanco1973

5 жыл бұрын

@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!