re: #213 Justanotherhuman

I started watching a movie on TCM last night and it wasn’t mentioned in the description that he was in it.

It was made in 1945 when he was fairly young and good-looking in a bland sort of way, and probably pretty liberal at the time. Don’t forget that he was President of the Screen Actors Guild (elected in 1947). He was a supporter of FDR, a union activist, and a liberal for 30 years of his life—before 20 Mule Team Borax and GE came into the picture.

I had read somewhere that he was turned down as a possible Congressional candidate because he was considered too liberal heh. I think he was a bit of an opportunist honestly. I think he took his disillusionment with liberalism and the New Deal to the extreme knowing that it would help him more electorally than if he had just become a moderate.