I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theatre, I didn't even know there was a show business!
There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era.
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Pierre Cardin, Designer (1922) |
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David Eddings, Author (1931) |
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Jessica Hahn, Celebrity (1959) |
Syd Barrett, Musician (2006) |
Virginia Gildersleeve, Celebrity (1965) |
Herman Kahn, Scientist (1983) |
Veronica Lake, Actress (1973) |