For Lucille Ball "The Red Scare" was not about her hair. What was this event and how did it effect Lucy?

MrsAce

One night in September 1953, Walter Winchell got on the air and declared that Lucille Ball was a communist. The “Red Scare” was going on in Hollywood at the time. For many creative people in the motion picture industry accused of being a communist it meant the end of their career. For Lucy the charges came about when a voter’s registration card of hers from 1936 showed that she intended to vote for the Communist Party. She testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee explaining that she had no intention of ever voting communist – She didn’t even know a thing about politics. She had only registered as a communist to please her “Daddy”, Grandpa Hunt, who wanted his grandchildren to do so. In 1936 it wasn’t such a terrible thing, so they did it without giving it a second thought. Lucy was cleared of all charges and the public loved her more than ever after the ordeal. Oct 15 04, 10:13 PM

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