Lucille Ball, a Beautiful Genius, Major Talent and Communist Party Member

Crime File News ^ | 10/9/10

[nuconvert]

I thought this was common knowledge

[utahagen]

I don't think Lucille Ball had more than a passing interest in Communism. Ball was a kick-ass businesswoman. I think she simply, dopily attended a few meetings when she was young and it was fashionable.

[Tanniker Smith]

Ball’s politics were as red as her hair.

Her politics came out of a bottle?

[hampdenkid]

Yeah, unfortunately, Lucy was a commie. As I recall, she said she became one just as a favor to her father, uncle, or some other family member. Whatever the case, at least she wasn’t a proselytizing commie like Chaplin, Fonda, Clooney, Robbins, or some of the others.

[buccaneer81]

Lucy's excuse was that she joined the Communist Party at the behest of her grandfather on his deathbed.

I don't think she did any harm. In fact, without her, "Star Trek" never would have aired.

I'm inclined to give Lucy a break.

[babble-on]

The Communists recruited in Hollywood then for the same reason the Scientologists do now: the people are dumb, rootless and rich.

[Caipirabob]

Lucille Ball, a Beautiful Genius, Major Talent and Communist Party Member

Well, at least now she's a "good" commie.

[Doogle]

..also early in her career was in a Three Stooges short “Three Little Pigskins”

[HerrBlucher]

Henry Fonda was a commie too?

[Mr Rogers]

Read here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucille_Ball#Testimony_Before_the_House_Committee_on_Un-American_Activities

She was far too much a businesswoman to be a real communist.

[Frantzie]

Lloyd Bridges too and his idiot son.

[hampdenkid]

Ahem, I was referring to Hanoi Jane ... but now that you’ve brought it up, I’ve always felt Henry was, too. Watch “The Oxbow Incident” (a message movie he made to debunk Westerns) and “Twelve Angry Men” (with it’s ghastly portrayal of decent Americans), and you’ll start to understand why both of his kids were commies.

[nickcarraway]

I call foul! As far as can be proved, and Ball said herself, she never registered as Party member, she just registered to vote for the Communist Party candidate in 1936, at her socialist Grandfather's insistence. That was about the end of it. Even J. Edgar Hoover completely cleared her. As Desi Arnaz said before the taping of an episode of I Love Lucy, "The only thing red about Lucy is her hair, and even that's not legitimate."

[dalebert]

Lucy’s grandfather was communist? didn’t know that. hmmm

[HerrBlucher]

Oh, I forgot, Jane. Sure am glad that when I see the name Fonda Henry comes to mind first and not Jane.

[dead]

Last century, a significant portion of Hollywood talent backed an ideology that killed over one hundred million people.

And yet, they still feel we should value their opinions in this century.

[nickcarraway]

I agree with you about Dark Corner, though. It's an underrated picture, and Ball does a great job in a role people wouldn't associate with her.

[Borges]

Those are some far out takes on The Ox-Bow Incident and ‘Twelve Angry Men’.

[Frantzie]

Oh like Star Trek does not spew leftist UN like sh*t including the prime directive and how no one in Star Trek ever seems to have money. They all work for the state.