You remember the Hollywood ‘blacklist’? McCarthyism has always been blamed for that.
“You remember the Hollywood ‘blacklist’? McCarthyism has always been blamed for that.”
McCarthy never got involved in that or in investigating Hollywood in any fashion. For one thing he was in the Senate and it was HUAC led by Edward Hart in the House that looked into Hollywood. Others did as well including Ronald Reagan as the head of the Screen Actors Guild. There’s several books on all of this including Billingsley’s Hollywood Party.
It’s always been lies to smear a guy who got a little too close to the target (communists in government). The blacklist was actually done by the Hollywood studios, *not* Congress. The public in the ‘50s were not too happy about Communists in Hollywood, so the studios were forced to blacklist the most visible in order to keep ticket sales going.