Examples of use of Hollywood Blacklist
1. She mentions Leo in her book Treason.‘ Leo Penn, Sean‘s father, was a movie actor, whose career was blighted in the early Fifties by the Hollywood blacklist. (He died, of lung cancer, in 1''8.) According to Penn, Leo was ‘the king of comfort in his own skin‘. Although Leo was not named in the House Un–American Activities Committee investigations, he was labelled as a fellow–traveller and, by 1'52, couldn‘t work on the West Coast.