Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Less than a week after a committee had set up shop in Manhattan to purge the nation's airwaves of suspected Communists and their fellow travelers, committee members began explaining that it was all a terrible misunderstanding. Mrs. Hestor McCullough, who had helped put Actress Jean Muir out of a job by protesting to her studio (TIME, Sept. 4), announced that she would continue protesting whenever she saw fit as an individual but not as member of any purge committee. The editors of Counterattack, who had assembled the charges of Communist leanings against Actress Muir in the first place...
...took was a handful of telegrams and 20 telephone calls to kick Actress Jean Muir off the air as a "controversial personality" (TIME, Sept. 4). Networks, ad agencies and advertisers feared to have themselves identified with anyone accused, however justly or unjustly, of Communist sympathy. Last week, crowing over their victory against Actress Muir, a little group organized themselves as a special committee to keep the air waves pure...
...went on to explain just what it would take to get right with the committee again. He had once been forced to apologize publicly after Actor Fredric March and his wife Florence Eldridge had convincingly denied his charges that they were Communists. But he was not prepared to accept Actress Muir's denials so easily. "Times have changed since then," he said...
...postponed the fall premiere of the TV version of The Aldrich Family, because it had received a lot of protests against one member of the cast, Actress Jean Muir. She was identified as a leftie in a directory published by Counterattack. Rejoined Actress Muir: "It's strange . . . especially since I consider Communism one of the most vicious things in the country today." The sponsor, General Foods, said it was making no judgment on the charges, but fired her as "a controversial personality...
...support of Actor Cummings' expert clowning and Actress Caulfield's good looks, the film puts Elsa Lanchester and Melville Cooper on their best comic behavior, and adds a living calendar of twelve Petty girls to help make the time pass quickly...