Shortly after their marriage the pair were denounced in Red Channels and blacklisted by the industry. That same year she married left-wing screenwriter Arnold Manoff. Sidney Kingsley’s Detective Story was Grant’s initial path to success, in both the original 1949 Broadway production and the 1951 William Wyler movie with Kirk Douglas, which won her many critical plaudits. Lee Grant studied ballet with Balanchine the late 1930s! She also took acting with Sanford Meisner, and this proved to be where her heart truly lay. By less fanciful measures she seems to have been born in the mid 1920s, and that’s old enough, she’s coasting toward the century mark. But we do know that the day is Halloween, October 31, so I’m going to run with the theory that she’s 150 years old, because she clearly made some kind of a deal with the devil. Whether by design or lost records, the year of Lee Grant’s birth is an enigma. Today happens to be Lee Grant’s birthday, and the wild thing is, nobody knows which one it is. I overhear my wife’s audiobooks, and then she talks to me about what she’s read, and ultimately it’s as though I read the book myself, at least the Reader’s Digest version. By that I don’t mean used books, I mean it more like in the sense of second-hand smoke. I get lots of second-hand books in my house. Grant is top-of-mind at the moment because my wife recently read her 2014 autobiography I Said Yes to Everything. As promised a couple of days ago, a thing on Fay, the very short lived 1975 sit-com starring Lee Grant (Lyova Haskell Rosenthal).
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