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Top 20 Famous People Who Were Blacklisted by Hollywood
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Top 20 Famous People Who Were Blacklisted by Hollywood
- #1: Bill Cosby.
- #2: Charlie Chaplin.
- #3: Harvey Weinstein.
- #4: Dalton Trumbo. ...
- #5: O. J. ...
- #6: Mel Gibson. ...
- #7: James Woods. ...
- #8: Tippi Hedren. ...
Hollywood blacklist, list of media workers ineligible for employment because of alleged communist or subversive ties, generated by Hollywood studios in the late 1940s and '50s.
Black Figures Who Were Blacklisted. Black actors, actresses, and singers were also silenced. Harry Belafonte, Lena Horne, Paul Robeson, and Hazel Scott were some of the entertainers whose lives took a drastic turn after being blacklisted.
Hollywood then started a blacklist policy, banning the work of about 325 screenwriters, directors and actors who the committee had not yet cleared. Some people were able to keep working, whether it was through pseudonyms or crediting their friends.
The Hollywood blacklist was an entertainment industry blacklist put in effect in the mid-20th century in the United States during the early years of the Cold War, in Hollywood and elsewhere.