Dramatis Personae

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Stella Adler: Actress, director

Edith Atwater: Actress

Vera Caspary: Writer, novelist

Mady Christians: Actress; council member, Actors’ Equity Association

Louise Fitch: Actress

Ruth Gordon: Actress, writer

Shirley Graham: Musician; writer; civil rights activist

Uta Hagen: Actress, teacher

Lillian Hellman: Playwright, author

Rose Hobart: Actress; board member, Screen Actors Guild

Judy Holliday: Actress

Lena Horne: Singer, actress

Marsha Hunt: Actress

Donna Keath: Actress

Pert Kelton: Actress

Adelaide Klein: Actress

Gypsy Rose Lee: Burlesque artist; quiz show host; recording secretary, American Guild of Variety Artists

Madeline Lee (Gilford): Actress, activist

Ray Lev: Concert pianist

Ella Logan: Singer

Aline MacMahon: Actress

Margo (María Marguerita Guadalupe Teresa Estela Bolado Castilla y O’Donnell Albert): Actress, dancer

Jean Muir: Actress

Meg Mundy: Actress

Dorothy Parker: Writer; co-founder Hollywood Anti-Nazi League

Minerva Pious: Actress

Anne Revere: Actress; secretary, member of the board, Screen Actors Guild

Selena Royle: Actress; writer; co-sponsor, Actors’ Dinner Club

Hazel Scott: Musician; actress

Lisa Sergio: Radio commentator; writer

Ann Shepherd: Actress

Gale Sondergaard: Actress

Hester Sondergaard: Actress

Helen Tamiris: Choreographer

Betty Todd: Director; secretary, Radio and Television Directors Guild

Hilda Vaughn: Actress

Fredi Washington: Actress; writer, The People’s Voice; secretary, Negro Actors Guild of America

Margaret Webster: Writer, director, producer

Ireene Wicker: Radio show host

Betty Winkler: Actress

Lesley Woods: Actress

Additional Black- or Gray-listed Women

Gertrude Berg: Actress, director, producer, writer

Lee Grant: Actress

Joan LaCour Scott: Writer

Hannah Weinstein: Producer, director

Anti-Communists

Kenneth M. Bierly: Lawyer, former FBI agent, co-founder, American Business Consultants; founder Kenby Associates

Elizabeth Dilling: Journalist and founder Patriotic Research Bureau; writer

Vincent J. Hartnett: Writer, author of the introduction to Red Channels and co-founder of AWARE, Inc., an offshoot of the American Business Consultants

J. Edgar Hoover: Director, FBI

Laurence Johnson: Syracuse-based grocery chain owner, co-founder, AWARE, Inc.

Theodore C. Kirkpatrick: Former FBI agent, co-founder, American Business Consultants

John G. Keenan: Lawyer, former FBI agent, co-founder, American Business Consultants

Colleen McCullough: Wife of Time magazine picture editor, defendant in Paul Draper and Larry Adler v. Hester McCullough, one of the first libel lawsuits filed against anti-communists

Louis B. Nichols: FBI assistant director, in charge of the Bureau’s records and communications