[Marxism] Jane Wyatt, 96; 'Father Knows Best' mom

[Walter Lippmann]

(In the very long obituary to Jane Wyatt which appears
in today's Los Angeles TIMES, no mention is made of 
her having once been married to Ronald Reagan.)
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http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-me-wyatt23oct23,1,4887898.story
OBITUARIES
Jane Wyatt, 96; 'Father Knows Best' mom
By Dennis McLellan
Times Staff Writer

October 23, 2006

Jane Wyatt, a three-time Emmy Award-winner for her
portrayal of the patient, understanding housewife and
mother on the classic 1950s family situation comedy "Father
Knows Best," has died. She was 96.

Wyatt, whose acting career spanned stage, screen and
television over seven decades, died Friday in her sleep at
her Bel-Air home, grandson Nicholas Ward said.

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Wyatt had a brush with the Hollywood blacklist for several
years in the early 1950s, when her film work dried up.

Wyatt, who had joined Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall and
other Hollywood stars on a flight to Washington in 1947 to
protest the House Un-American Activities Committee
hearings, told the Chicago Tribune in 1989 that she would
get a job offer on a film, "then all of a sudden it would
be rescinded."

"I was never a member of the Communist Party, but they
brought up all sorts of charges that I had been to the Lab
Theater, which was considered subversive," she said. "All
we did there were the classics, 'Volpone,' 'The Cherry
Orchard.' I still don't know how they managed to find a
Marxist subtext in [Georges] Feydeau" — a
turn-of-the-century French playwright known for his sex
farces.

Wyatt also was labeled as having been "prematurely
anti-fascist" because she opposed Hitler before the United
States entered the war.

"I attended a concert by the L.A. Philharmonic calling for
a second front against the Nazis," she said. "I don't know
why that was held against me, because [Franklin] Roosevelt
was calling for a second front at the same time."