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Frances Chaney, blacklisted star OBITUARY

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From: International Herald Tribune
Date: 20041207
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International Herald Tribune
12-07-2004
Frances Chaney, a radio star whose budding film career was stifled after she and her husband, Ring Lardner Jr., were placed on a Hollywood blacklist, died on Nov. 23 in New York. She was 89. Chaney, who had Alzheimer's disease, died in her sleep, said her son James. Lardner was one of the Hollywood 10, jailed in 1950 for contempt of Congress for refusing to answer whether they were Communists. Chaney was blacklisted because she was correctly assumed to be, as Lardner's wife, a Communist. Chaney found herself unemployed after years appearing on popular ...

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