Robert Taylor named names for the HUAC

With the fall of the the Soviet empire in 1991 and the opening of their historic archives and the declassifying of the Venona project in 1995, we actually find the McCarthy "Witch hunts" had much truth to them.(more than even he imagined). Those that thwarted his investigations were the real Anti-Americans! Robert Taylor was a courageous man to go against the stream of Communist apologists! It is now a known fact that the Communist governments of Stalin and Mao killed 10 times more people than the Nazi Hitler ever did!

Just the fact that he's a crappy actor with a voice that undermines everything else happening on screen, disturbing like nails on a chalkboard. That's enough for me to dislike him.

He was a pretty boy, that's why he survived in Hollywood.

Takes two to tumble it takes two to tango
Speak up don't mumble when you're in the combo

The original post isn't accurate in its dates, as has been pointed out. Taylor testified before HUAC in 1947, not in the 50s. Incidentally, Senator McCarthy had nothing whatever to do with the Hollywood hearings and never investigated the motion picture industry - it's a pervasive myth (not saying the original poster him or herself necessarily believes it).

Robert Taylor was subpoenaed to testify before the HUAC public hearings in Washington in October 1947, having already testified at supposedly confidential closed hearings in LA in May (the details of which were leaked, much to Taylor's anger). Taylor was a reluctant witness, but he was legally obliged to testify and he answered the questions put to him as honestly as possible. Committee counsel Robert Stripling asked him to name some of the people who at actor's guild meetings were said by Taylor to be disruptive influences who might have been communists or furthering the communist cause. Taylor named Howard DaSilva and Karen Morley, adding he didn't know if they were communists or not. Later, asked if he knew of any communist screen writers, he named Hollywood 10 member Lester Cole as "reputedly" one, though he said he personally didn't know if he actually was a communist.

Those named by Taylor, under threat of legal action if he had not testified, and hadn't answered questions honestly, were at certain periods, communists. But Taylor himself in his own evidence, did not say they were communists. Of those he referred to, Lester Cole especially was a long standing and very dedicated Hollywood communist, not simply one who just "flirted" with communism when it was briefly popular in the 30s and during the war - or had merely signed petitions got up by communist fronts.

There had been a significant attempt by the Communist Party of the USA (CPUSA) to infiltrate Hollywood, to control craft unions and to influence film content by recruiting screen writers. The Hollywood 10 and CPUSA member John Howard Lawson was the one of the leaders in the party's screen writer group - he was a fanatical Stalinist. At this time the American communist party was directly controlled by the Stalinist USSR, a hostile foreign power.