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Mar 7, 2023 · Now in her 90s (though not looking or sounding a bit of it) she remains defiant. “I wasn’t scared during the blacklist,” she insists. “I wasn’t. I had a community. And it was a real fighting community.”. While Manoff and his friends (the “communist literati”, as she refers to them) talked of Marxist theory and economics, Grant ...
Jan 28, 2020 · On top of being an Oscar-winning actor and a trailblazing documentarian, Lee Grant is a lovely host—quick-witted, warm, and fiercely candid about the obstacles that life and Hollywood continue ...
Sep 27, 2023 · Lee Grant, a two-time Oscar winner, as an actor and a filmmaker, is screening two of her films at the New York Film Festival. ... “My whole background was from a blacklisted point of view ...
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Lee Grant (born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal; October 31, during the mid-1920s) [a] is an American actress, documentarian, and director. For her film debut in 1951 as a young shoplifter in William Wyler's Detective Story , Grant earned an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress and won the Best Actress Award at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival .
Aug 3, 2014 · Lee Grant, an Oscar-winning actress and director, was blacklisted for 12 years for her association with Communism. She talks about her career, her marriages, and her memoir in this interview.
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Jul 7, 2014 · How Lee Grant Recovered From the Blacklist. “Some working actors lost the best years of their lives and don’t know why.”. Those words were written by actress/director Lee Grant in her new ...
Jul 6, 2014 · Interview: Lee Grant, Author Of 'I Said Yes To Everything' After losing 12 years of her career to the communist blacklist, the actress and director spent decades lying about her age to make up for ...
