[stanne]

Stop. No she was not a communist

This sums up what I just skimmed at Google

And I know a lot about Lucy. That I had to skim Google for this shows that whatever is missing in Google, Lucy’s political or non politics did not spill over into her work. There is no subtle communism, antiamericanism, pro birth control message in her work.

So stop
“Ball was a card-carrying communist in the 30s, a Democrat in the 40s, and a Republican in the 50s. Her confrontation with anti-Communists in Congress in the 50s turned her off to politics for the remaining 37 years of her life.”

[Vigilanteman]

In the 1930s and well into the 1940s, some of the big movers and shakers in Hollywood were in love with Josef Stalin. If you wanted regular work, being a card-carrying Communist was a big help. This quasi-requirement didn't sit well with a lot of people in Hollywood, but most were afraid to voice it for fear of not getting work.

This is how Ronald Reagan was elected President of the Screen Actors Guild in 1947 even though, by then, he wasn't getting much work in Hollywood.

Several avowed Communists worked to take him down from the get-go. The first actor to step forward and support him in public (not just in a secret ballot election) was the legendary John Wayne. After that, more slowly came forward so that, by 1950, congress was actually holding hearing on the Communist intimidation in Hollywood which, much later, evolved into the McCarthy hearings.

The next time some liberal dirtbag denounces Joe McCarthy, just remind them what their thugs were doing in Hollywood long before McCarthy was elected to the U.S. Senate.

[bigdaddy45]

“pro birth control” is akin to communism and antiamericanism?

[trisham]

Thank you, stanne.