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Betty Garrett, actress in film, TV, Broadway, dies
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| 02/13/11
| Andrew Dalton
Posted on 02/13/2011 9:38:09 AM PST by Borges
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To: Richard Kimball; Borges
To: Borges
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posted on
02/13/2011 1:56:51 PM PST
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
To: Borges
From the article:
Garrett had also had a brief dalliance with the party...
To: buccaneer81
That isn’t something that marks her as a life long communist.
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posted on
02/13/2011 3:24:02 PM PST
by
Borges
To: Borges
It doesn't look like her husband was a lifelong Communist, either, but they both tried it out.
Not cool.
To: buccaneer81
Unfortunately, it was highly popular in the 1930s and early 40s. Socailist candidates got more votes than they ever would again.
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posted on
02/13/2011 3:36:00 PM PST
by
Borges
To: Borges
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posted on
02/13/2011 3:39:02 PM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Borges
According to Wikipedia, both were members of the Communist Party but only her husband was called on to testify.
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posted on
02/13/2011 3:43:09 PM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Borges
FDR and his crew were responsible for most of it.
If I had to name a single American who did the most long term damage to this nation in its history, FDR is it.
To: buccaneer81
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posted on
02/13/2011 3:47:53 PM PST
by
Borges
To: Borges
Both Betty Garrett and her husband, Larry Parks, were members of the Communist Party.
She joined the Party during her early career days in New York City. After joining she avidly volunteered her song-and-dance talents at many fundraisers for communist and progressive causes.
Parks was born in Joliet, Illinois, about 50 miles from where I was born.
Leni
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posted on
02/13/2011 3:57:39 PM PST
by
MinuteGal
(OK, BOR...NAME the "far-rightists" you always morally compare to the far-leftists. Name names, NOW!)
To: MinuteGal
If I got judged by stuff I did as a teen and early 20-something I’d hate it.
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posted on
02/13/2011 4:02:19 PM PST
by
Borges
To: Borges
I never would have joined the Communist party, though, when I was in my 20's.....and then remained in it, and then raised funds for it, and then married a commie......
No way, no how, no dice.
Leni
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posted on
02/13/2011 4:27:46 PM PST
by
MinuteGal
(OK, BOR...NAME the "far-rightists" you always morally compare to the far-leftists. Name names, NOW!)
To: MinuteGal
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posted on
02/13/2011 4:31:50 PM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Borges
Garrett had been in good health and taught her usual musical comedy class at Theater West, the non-profit organization she helped found, on Wednesday night, but Friday checked into the hospital with heart trouble, and died with her family at her side the following morning. It's wonderful that she was teaching a class and accomplishing so much at her age.
RIP...
To: Perdogg
Betty in 1974...
To: MinuteGal
You weren't living during the Depression. They probably joined together as naive youth. Larry Parks apparently left the party after WW2.
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posted on
02/13/2011 7:34:26 PM PST
by
Borges
To: Borges
You’re sure making a lot of excuses for communist traitors.
To: ozzymandus
LOL Do you know how many people got involved somehow with various socialist movements back then (pre WW2). Was Lucille Ball a traitor too? She registered as a communist twice.
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posted on
02/14/2011 11:31:21 AM PST
by
Borges
To: Borges
So communism is a “social movement”? Was Nazism a “social movement”? I already knew Lucy was a commie, and yes, she was just as stupid as Betty Garrett.
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