Editing Red Channels (section)

==Impact==

[[Jean Muir (actress)|Jean Muir]] was the first performer to lose employment because of a listing in ''Red Channels''. In 1950 Muir was named as a [[Communist]] sympathizer in the pamphlet, and was immediately removed from the cast of the television sitcom ''[[The Aldrich Family]]'', in which she had been cast as Mrs. Aldrich. NBC had received between 20 and 30 phone calls protesting her being in the show. [[General Foods]], the sponsor, said that it would not sponsor programs in which "controversial persons" were featured. Though the company later received thousands of calls protesting the decision, it was not reversed.<ref>{{cite book|last=Brown|first=Jared|title=Zero Mostel|year=1989|publisher=Atheneum|location=New York|isbn=978-0689119552|pages=[https://archive.org/details/zeromostelbiogra00brow/page/89 89–90]|url=https://archive.org/details/zeromostelbiogra00brow/page/89}}</ref>

Many other well-known artists were named, including Hollywood stars such as [[Edward G. Robinson]] and [[Orson Welles]] (who by then, due to tax problems, was in Europe),<ref>Mark W. Estwin (ed.) ''Orson Welles Interviews'', Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2002, pp. vi–vii</ref> literary figures such as [[Dorothy Parker]] and [[Lillian Hellman]], and musicians such as [[Hazel Scott]], [[Pete Seeger]] and [[Leonard Bernstein]]. Ex-leftist and HUAC informant [[J. B. Matthews]] claimed responsibility for providing the listings; he would also work for United States Senator [[Joseph McCarthy]] (R-WI).<ref>Schrecker (2002), p. 90; Strout (1999), p. 27</ref> By 1951, those identified in ''Red Channels'' were blacklisted across much or all of the movie and broadcast industries unless and until they cleared their names, the customary requirement being that they testify before the [[House Un-American Activities Committee]] (HUAC) and name names, which the vast majority refused to do.