Joshua Shelley
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Joshua Shelley was one of the actors blacklist
Blacklist
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ed by movie studios as a result of the House Un-American Activities Committee
House Un-American Activities Committee
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's (HUAC) investigation of the Communist Party
Communist party
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 in Hollywood in 1952. He did not begin to again work regularly in Hollywood until 1973 when his career restarted.

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