BANNED: 11 Classic Hollywood Stars Blacklisted and ERASED

Seventy-nine years ago this week, Hollywood began erasing its own — and one erased man went on to win two Academy Awards under names that were not his. Another man wept before the committee, named names, did everything they demanded — and they erased him anyway. These are the eleven stars who faced the same choice: sign, grovel, name names, or vanish. Which choice would YOU have made? Tell us in the comments. CHAPTERS: 0:00 Hook — Banned 0:27 The Machine 1:37 Subscribe 1:46 #11 — Kim Hunter 2:59 #10 — Gale Sondergaard 4:23 #9 — Howard Da Silva 5:40 #8 — Canada Lee 6:52 #7 — Marsha Hunt 8:26 #6 — Zero Mostel 9:55 #5 — Lena Horne 11:30 #4 — Larry Parks 13:13 #3 — John Garfield 14:46 #2 — Paul Robeson 16:36 #1 — Dalton Trumbo 18:43 The Verdict 19:53 Outro SOURCES (stories drawn from): Encyclopaedia Britannica (Canada Lee, Zero Mostel, Lena Horne, Larry Parks, John Garfield, Paul Robeson, Dalton Trumbo); New York Times obituaries (Kim Hunter, Gale Sondergaard, Larry Parks); TCM (Kim Hunter); encyclopedia.com — Hollywood Ten / HUAC entries (Gale Sondergaard, Howard Da Silva, John Garfield); The Guardian (Howard Da Silva obituary); Hollywood Reporter (Marsha Hunt obituary, 2022); Smithsonian Magazine (Lena Horne, Paul Robeson); National Archives (Robeson passport revocation); Playbill (Zero Mostel). PHOTO CREDITS: all 33 photos public domain except trumbo_3.jpg (CC BY 4.0) — full per-photo attribution in video-31-work/images/MANIFEST.md (Wikimedia Commons). Golden Age Untold brings you the stories Hollywood tried to bury — one untold story, every single day. Subscribe so you don't miss tomorrow's. #ClassicHollywood #HollywoodBlacklist #GoldenAgeHollywood #OldHollywood #DaltonTrumbo