Racist Actors and Actresses of the 1960's

On what earth was Brando, who used to make black and white alike burst out into fits of laughter when he attempted to publicly lecture about the plight of black Americans, "racist?"

They should have banded together and protested such a thing. They were the ones who had clout.

I don't believe this, not even a little bit. Anyone can say anything after someone is dead.

r3, seriously - watch the video. Each case is backed by actor's studio contracts, voting and campaign finance records, memberships in certain organizations, and personal correspondences. It's very disappointing.

R4. You're very "disappointing," OP.

Charlton Heston's "Planet of the Apes" co-star Maurice Evans was [bold]not[/bold] black, as the video claims.

Didn't he play the uncle on "Good Times"?

[quote]clauses in their contracts that excluded people of color from their films.

I Googled OP and it seems there is no evidence of this. I'm glad because I would find it unacceptable if any of the old Hollywood stars had insisted on Black people being excluded from their films.

One good thing I did find was this > "Clark Gable almost quit Gone With the Wind early in production after discovering the set was segregated. He told the director that unless the “white” and “colored” signs were removed, there would be no Rhett Butler". Gone with the Wind was filmed in 1939 so even then people knew segregation was wrong.

Brando came out later to strongly admonish the racist thing going on in Hollywood.

Good Lord. Mo Evans was a gay, white Shakespearian actor...

I don’t believe it either. There are PLENTY of real racist actors you can pick on.

Maurice Evans played Samantha's father on Bewitched

This is all BS clickbait

OP, people like you who consume AI-generated listicles and mass-produced AI YouTube videos are a serious social ill.

I'd estimate your BMI as somewhere in the 33-34 range.

The language used to describe each successive actor was exactly the same, which is suspicious in itself. I remain skeptical. I wouldn't doubt that most of these people had the common prejudices of their generation. And it wouldn't shock me in the slightest if some uttered the n word privately. But I'd like to see the FBI records and tax records myself before I accept the accusations of this clip. I do think it was probably standard in most theatrical and film contracts before the era of civil rights to segregate sets or scenes. Plus, it was absolutely forbidden to show any films in the south where a black man or woman was in a romantic relationship with a white person, or even shown as a social or financial equal, so Hollywood producers would acquiesce to the financial harm of potentially losing viewership in thousands of theaters across the south.

Strange that the video accused Brando hostility to miscegenation, when he himself was involved in one. As for Wayne, Marvin, Widmark, and Heston--they were probably more racist than portrayed. As r15 stated, many actors merely reflected the values of their time and video itself seemed to be AI-written.

Audrey and black girl for UNICEF

Brando was not racist. I refuse to believe it. No one is perfect.

Come on, people.

In 1963 Judy organized a press conference with June Allyson, their daughters Liza and Pam, and Carolyn Jones, to express her horror over the racist bombing of the church in Birmingham, Alabama, that killed four black girls and injured about 20 other people.

Don't watch this clickbait shit.

At the March on Washington.

Richard Widmark was a well-known liberal. He *played* a racist character in No Way Out (1950), which introduced Sidney Poitier and had a very progressive storyline. Poitier and Widmark were good friends, and later co-starred in The Long Ships (1964), and Bedford Incident (1965).

I have NEVER heard most of the crap spouted by this narrator in this video. It's extremely doubtful anyone could have found all these obscure "facts" about all these stars from 50 years ago. What a busboy at some restaurant overheard, or whatever. It's ridiculous.

Widmark paying tribute to Poiter at the AFI Life Achievement Award:

Not to focus exclusively on Widmark but he was such a prominently non-racist Hollywood figure that I feel like I should defend him. He was interviewed for the PBS American Masters doc on Lena. She co-starred with him in a 1969 western called Death of a Gunfighter. He first says in the interview he had a little crush on her in MGM musicals, before he came to Hollywood. Then he was asked in anyone had any objection to her being cast in the film because she was black, he says a couple of people did, but he and the producer said, "It's Lena" and that was it. (This is the raw footage of the interview.)

Judy garland and Joan Crawford were right. Queen Bette Davis was right about her.Lee Marvin donating money to the Nazi person takes the cake.

Some of these outright lies. Tony Curtis and Frank sinitra were not racist

I meant shocking not right @R24

R26 Still confusing. Waht were you trying to say?

What would you say about Maga Clint Eastwood? Racist to not?

Andy Griffith commonly referred to black people as niggers.

Another hateful bigot in real life was Allen Melvin who played Sam the butcher on The Brady Bunch and also played Archie Bunker's loser pal on All In The Family.

Clint Eastwood was not racist either. He just was a mafuckin Republican. Back in the 50s the average Republican was more likely to be pro civil rights than the average Dem. Democrats were the populists back then and most white people where shameless racists.

This is ridiculous. The narration sounds like it was written by an Antioch College student with all that critical race studies jargon: "deeply embedded," "performative," etc. The narration actually blames Judy gar,land for MGM paying black dancers less than white dancers--as if she could have had anything to do with that.

I cannot take this seriously. Fail, OP.

R28, I highly recommend you watch 'Grand Torino'. Clint isn't afraid to portray an unabashed racist in this film.

Helen Lawson owned slaves.

The MGM lot in Culver City was never segregated into white and colored sections. LOL.

The theater in Atlanta where it premiered was—colored in the balcony only.

The drunk history you folks drink up here is hilarious.

That's a flattering shot of Liza, r18.

Richard Widmark was well known to be a grapefruit grower.

A little media literacy goes a long way. This is AI slop. Check the channel; they mass produce this stuff. If you engage with it, you are part of the fucking problem.

R36, and a bear killer!

Judy Garland sang The Battle Hymn of the Republic after JFK's assassination.