Marsha Hunt, '40s star and blacklist victim, dies at 104

People should read, watch and remember the damage McCarthyism did.

We are now looking at similar behavior by anyone that dares say " wait what about due process" in the case of and accusations, or if they say anything not approved by the agenda of certain groups.

We are now living in the age of the new McCarthyism instead of the "House Un-American Activities Committee" it is twitter and other social media platforms with no chance to respond equally.

Seems no lessons were learned from that period.

RIP it is sad your final days was watching a modern version of what happened to you now unfolding.

Millions of Americans worry about the commies under the bed. Part of their DNA.

The reason, she learned from her agent, was that the communist-hunting Red Channels publication had revealed that she attended a peace conference in Stockholm and other supposedly suspicious gatherings.

Better safe than sorry.

There was a huge number of Communist spies the UK in the 1950s; the Red Scare was a reality.

Lots of paranoid conservatives here on JT who would've blacklisted Hunt as well for visiting a peace conference in Sweden.

In “Marsha Hunt’s Sweet Adversity,” she remembered almost getting the part of Melanie Wilkes in “Gone with the Wind,” even being assured by producer David O. Selznick.

"assured"? Mmmmm, I wonder.