And after twelve years of fighting the blacklist, she was finally exonerated. She met a man ten years her junior and began a wild, liberating fling that she never expected would last a lifetime. She threw herself into work, accepting every theater or teaching job that came her way. Her name landed on the Hollywood blacklist, her offers for film and television roles ground to a halt, and her marriage fell apart.įinding reserves of strength she didn’t know she had, Grant took action against anti-Communist witch hunts in the arts. Born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal in New York City, actress Lee Grant spent her youth accumulating more experiences than most people have in a from student at the famed Neighborhood Playhouse to member of the legendary Actors Studio from celebrated Broadway star to Vogue “It Girl.” At age twenty-four, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Detective Story, and a year later found herself married and a mother for the first time, her career on the rise.
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