Carol Burnett's 50 Years Inside Hollywood Exposed the 5 Worst Racist Stars She Worked Alongside
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Carol Burnett's 50 years inside the American entertainment industry placed her in unavoidable professional proximity to five Old Hollywood figures whose documented racism is preserved in congressional records, peer-reviewed academic biographies, white supremacist organizational membership rolls, and the films themselves.
The video traces Burnett from her 1959 arrival on The Garry Moore Show through her landmark 1967 to 1978 run on The Carol Burnett Show, anchored by her documented friendships with Sammy Davis Jr., Pearl Bailey, and Lena Horne and her 2016 memoir In Such Good Company. The five named figures are Robert Taylor, Charles Coburn, John Ford, Lela Rogers, and D.W. Griffith, each examined through the documented public record of their institutional power, congressional testimony, organizational memberships, and creative output. Sources include the House Un-American Activities Committee congressional archives, Joseph McBride's 2001 biography Searching for John Ford, Thomas Doherty's academic study Show Trial: Hollywood, HUAC, and the Birth of the Blacklist, and Melvyn Stokes's 2007 Oxford University Press study of The Birth of a Nation.
What's covered in this video:
Carol Burnett's 50-year career from her 1959 arrival on The Garry Moore Show through The Carol Burnett Show from 1967 to 1978, her four published memoirs including In Such Good Company from 2016, and her documented professional friendships with Sammy Davis Jr., Pearl Bailey, and Lena Horne.
Robert Taylor as the MGM leading man under contract for 24 unbroken years, his films Magnificent Obsession, Camille opposite Greta Garbo, and Quo Vadis, his 1939 to 1951 marriage to Barbara Stanwyck, his October 1947 friendly witness testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee where he named screenwriter Howard Da Silva and actress Karen Morley, and his 1944 co-founding of the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals alongside John Wayne, Walt Disney, Cecil B. DeMille, Hedda Hopper, Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Adolphe Menjou, Ward Bond, and Ayn Rand.
John Ford as the four-time Oscar winning director whose 140 films spanned American cinema from the silent era through the 1960s, his Academy Award wins for The Informer, The Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, and The Quiet Man, his 1915 on-screen appearance as a Klansman in D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation as documented in Joseph McBride's 2001 biography Searching for John Ford, his use of Stepin Fetchit in Judge Priest from 1934 and Steamboat Round the Bend from 1935, and his direction of Black actor Woody Strode being called boy in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance in 1962.
D.W. Griffith as the foundational figure of American cinematic racism whose 1915 The Birth of a Nation was the first film ever screened at the White House by President Woodrow Wilson in February 1915, the NAACP protest campaign that emerged in response, the film's role in the 1915 revival of the Ku Klux Klan as a mass organization that grew to over 4 million members by the mid-1920s, Griffith's 1916 pamphlet The Rise and Fall of Free Speech in America defending his work, and Melvyn Stokes's 2007 Oxford University Press academic study D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation: A History of the Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time.
Mentioned in this video: Carol Burnett, Sammy Davis Jr., Pearl Bailey, Lena Horne, Robert Taylor, Greta Garbo, Barbara Stanwyck, Howard Da Silva, Karen Morley, John Wayne, Walt Disney, Cecil B. DeMille, Hedda Hopper, Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Adolphe Menjou, Ward Bond, Ayn Rand, Paul Robeson, Charles Coburn, John Ford, Joseph McBride, Stepin Fetchit, Woody Strode, Lela Rogers, Charles Koerner, Dalton Trumbo, Kirk Douglas, Otto Preminger, Thomas Doherty, D.W. Griffith, Woodrow Wilson, Melvyn Stokes, The Garry Moore Show, The Carol Burnett Show, In Such Good Company, Magnificent Obsession, Camille, Quo Vadis, The More the Merrier, The Devil and Miss Jones, The Informer, The Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, The Quiet Man, The Searchers, Stagecoach, Fort Apache, Judge Priest, Steamboat Round the Bend, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Tender Comrade, The Birth of a Nation, The Rise and Fall of Free Speech in America, Searching for John Ford, Show Trial: Hollywood HUAC and the Birth of the Blacklist, Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, House Un-American Activities Committee, White Citizens' Council, Ku Klux Klan, NAACP, RKO Pictures, MGM, Screen Writers Guild, America's Town Meeting of the Air, Los Angeles Philharmonic Auditorium, Macon Georgia, Savannah, Hollywood, Brown v. Board of Education, Old Hollywood Golden Age.
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Can’t really blame them, of this 100 years ago, because even the current generation is just about getting to grips with it?!😢
Carol Burnett's 50 Years Inside Hollywood Exposed the 5 Worst Racist Stars She Worked Alongside
Hollywood Timecapsule
10,016 views
Carol Burnett's 50 years inside the American entertainment industry placed her in unavoidable professional proximity to five Old Hollywood figures whose documented racism is preserved in congressional records, peer-reviewed academic biographies, white supremacist organizational membership rolls, and the films themselves.
The video traces Burnett from her 1959 arrival on The Garry Moore Show through her landmark 1967 to 1978 run on The Carol Burnett Show, anchored by her documented friendships with Sammy Davis Jr., Pearl Bailey, and Lena Horne and her 2016 memoir In Such Good Company. The five named figures are Robert Taylor, Charles Coburn, John Ford, Lela Rogers, and D.W. Griffith, each examined through the documented public record of their institutional power, congressional testimony, organizational memberships, and creative output. Sources include the House Un-American Activities Committee congressional archives, Joseph McBride's 2001 biography Searching for John Ford, Thomas Doherty's academic study Show Trial: Hollywood, HUAC, and the Birth of the Blacklist, and Melvyn Stokes's 2007 Oxford University Press study of The Birth of a Nation.
What's covered in this video:
Carol Burnett's 50-year career from her 1959 arrival on The Garry Moore Show through The Carol Burnett Show from 1967 to 1978, her four published memoirs including In Such Good Company from 2016, and her documented professional friendships with Sammy Davis Jr., Pearl Bailey, and Lena Horne.
Robert Taylor as the MGM leading man under contract for 24 unbroken years, his films Magnificent Obsession, Camille opposite Greta Garbo, and Quo Vadis, his 1939 to 1951 marriage to Barbara Stanwyck, his October 1947 friendly witness testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee where he named screenwriter Howard Da Silva and actress Karen Morley, and his 1944 co-founding of the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals alongside John Wayne, Walt Disney, Cecil B. DeMille, Hedda Hopper, Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Adolphe Menjou, Ward Bond, and Ayn Rand.
John Ford as the four-time Oscar winning director whose 140 films spanned American cinema from the silent era through the 1960s, his Academy Award wins for The Informer, The Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, and The Quiet Man, his 1915 on-screen appearance as a Klansman in D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation as documented in Joseph McBride's 2001 biography Searching for John Ford, his use of Stepin Fetchit in Judge Priest from 1934 and Steamboat Round the Bend from 1935, and his direction of Black actor Woody Strode being called boy in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance in 1962.
D.W. Griffith as the foundational figure of American cinematic racism whose 1915 The Birth of a Nation was the first film ever screened at the White House by President Woodrow Wilson in February 1915, the NAACP protest campaign that emerged in response, the film's role in the 1915 revival of the Ku Klux Klan as a mass organization that grew to over 4 million members by the mid-1920s, Griffith's 1916 pamphlet The Rise and Fall of Free Speech in America defending his work, and Melvyn Stokes's 2007 Oxford University Press academic study D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation: A History of the Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time.
Mentioned in this video: Carol Burnett, Sammy Davis Jr., Pearl Bailey, Lena Horne, Robert Taylor, Greta Garbo, Barbara Stanwyck, Howard Da Silva, Karen Morley, John Wayne, Walt Disney, Cecil B. DeMille, Hedda Hopper, Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Adolphe Menjou, Ward Bond, Ayn Rand, Paul Robeson, Charles Coburn, John Ford, Joseph McBride, Stepin Fetchit, Woody Strode, Lela Rogers, Charles Koerner, Dalton Trumbo, Kirk Douglas, Otto Preminger, Thomas Doherty, D.W. Griffith, Woodrow Wilson, Melvyn Stokes, The Garry Moore Show, The Carol Burnett Show, In Such Good Company, Magnificent Obsession, Camille, Quo Vadis, The More the Merrier, The Devil and Miss Jones, The Informer, The Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, The Quiet Man, The Searchers, Stagecoach, Fort Apache, Judge Priest, Steamboat Round the Bend, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Tender Comrade, The Birth of a Nation, The Rise and Fall of Free Speech in America, Searching for John Ford, Show Trial: Hollywood HUAC and the Birth of the Blacklist, Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, House Un-American Activities Committee, White Citizens' Council, Ku Klux Klan, NAACP, RKO Pictures, MGM, Screen Writers Guild, America's Town Meeting of the Air, Los Angeles Philharmonic Auditorium, Macon Georgia, Savannah, Hollywood, Brown v. Board of Education, Old Hollywood Golden Age.
#CarolBurnett #OldHollywood #HollywoodSecrets