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The Blacklist | The Strange Love of Barbara Stanwyck: Robert Taylor
Mar 08, 2016Barbara Stanwyck’s first marriage helped to inspire A Star is Born. Her second marriage, to heartthrob Robert Taylor, didn’t make sense in a lot of ways, but the pair were united by their conservative...
The Blacklist | He Ran All The Way: John Garfield
Mar 15, 2016John Garfield was Brando before Brando -- a Method-style actor who repped the New York working class while becoming a major sex symbol in film noir and World War II films. Garfield was not a Communist...
The Blacklist | Monsieur Verdoux: Charlie Chaplin's Road to Hollywood Exile
Mar 29, 2016Picking up where last week’s episode left off, we’ll catch up with Chaplin’s post-The Great Dictator activism, talk about Chaplin’s savage satirical follow-up, Monsieur Verdoux, and explain the witch ...
The Blacklist | Storm Warning: Ronald Reagan, the FBI and HUAC
Apr 05, 2016The post-war Communist witch hunt had a big impact on Ronald Reagan’s evolution from movie actor to politician, and from Democrat to Republican. And Ronald Reagan had a major personal impact on the wi...
The Blacklist | She: Richard Nixon + Helen Gahagan Douglas
Apr 12, 2016The wife of actor Melvyn Douglas (Ninotchka, Being There), Helen Gahagan Douglas transformed herself from a Broadway and opera star into an exciting new politician in the days of FDR. A persistent, na...
The Blacklist | Salt of the Earth: Howard Hughes + Paul Jarrico
Apr 26, 2016Today we explore one of the more troubling aspects of Howard Hughes’ legacy: the firm hand he played in enforcing the blacklisting of Hollywood workers, both as the head and owner of RKO Pictures, and...
The Blacklist | Born Yesterday: Judy Holliday
May 03, 2016Judy Holliday won an Oscar for her first starring film role, and of her eight major film roles between 1950 and 1960, four were in films now considered classics. She was one star who was subpoenaed to...
The Blacklist | Stormy Weather: Lena Horne + Paul Robeson
May 17, 2016Horne's last years at MGM overlapped with the first HUAC hearings. Horne, an outspoken proponent of equal rights, who from the beginning of her career had associated with leftists and “agitators,” got...
The Blacklist | On the Waterfront: Elia Kazan
May 24, 2016Elia Kazan introduced audiences to Warren Beatty, James Dean and Marlon Brando. His films of the 1950s -- including A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, and East of Eden -- comprise perhaps th...
The Blacklist | After the Fall: Arthur Miller
May 31, 2016Arthur Miller considered Elia Kazan a close friend and collaborator, but when Kazan named names to HUAC, Miller broke with him and wrote The Crucible, a parable about anti-communist hysteria set amids...