It's the slap that still reverberates through cinematic history. Fifty-five years ago — only three years after the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act was signed into law — millions of moviegoers watched ...

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 lost... Undeterred By The Blacklist, Lee Grant 'Said Yes To ...

At 100 years old, Lee Grant knows the cost of McCarthyism better than almost anyone else on the planet. One of the last ...

When two-time Oscar winner Lee Grant returned to making movies after spending 12 years on the blacklist, it was two Normans — Jewison and Lear — who helped her back. With the House Un-American ...

Lee Grant always has stood up for the disenfranchised, whether sitting before the House Un-American Activities Committee during the McCarthy era or in the director’s chair in more recent years. “I’m ...

Two-time Oscar winner Lee Grant lost 12 years of her career to the Hollywood Blacklist, shut out of the industry just after her film debut in 1951’s Detective Story, which garnered her first Academy ...

Lee Grant received an Oscar nomination for her 1951 film debut in Detective Story and was later blacklisted in Hollywood for 12 years She won the best supporting actress Oscar for her performance ...

Lee Grant (born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal; October 31, during the mid-1920s) is an American actress and director. She made her film debut in 1951 as a young shoplifter in William Wyler's Detective Story ...