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5. Will Geer was also a Communist

The Grandpa Walton actor became a member of the Communist Party of the United States in 1934, and often campaigned on behalf of striking workers. At first Geer wasn’t concerned with the studios discomfort of his sexuality, but when he found out that the Communist party was homophobic, that’s when he actually agreed to marry a woman as a guise. Geer was blacklisted in the 1950s for refusing to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, which hurt his acting career for years.

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