![]() ![]() he would tell that Crest toothpaste was supporting communists if they kept employing me. And then this grocer from Syracuse threatened the show. I was hired by mistake on Search for Tomorrow. She tells McEvers about directing documentaries and lying about her age - until Social Security ratted her out. Grant's early career, the trying years on the blacklist and her success in Hollywood are all recounted in her new memoir, I Said Yes To Everything. It was like, one day you were an actress who could do anything, and the very next day, you could not work in film or television again. "He handed me this copy of Red Channels, which had all the blacklisted people in it, and there I was. "And two days later, I was at an actors' equity meeting, and the actor in front of me turned to me and said, 'Well, I see you made the list,' " Grant says. Grant spoke out against HUAC at the memorial service. In 1951 - the same year Grant was first nominated for an Academy Award - a friend with a bad heart was called to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee. ![]()
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