@@bobbyhenderson1987 No,don’t do that. Leave the Duke alone. His fans know who he is. God rest his soul, he was a good man,an American , through and through. Need I say I’m a fan. He was a damn good actor. My favorite movie of his was The Quiet Man.🍀
Gable merely reflected attitudes of the times. It is believed Gable had some Negro ancestry and he often went to bat for blacks, including co-workers. When Hattie McDaniel ( whom he adored) was not invited to the Atlanta premiere of GONE WITH THE WIND, he threatened to miss it. She talked him out of it.
@@MCfact1827 Morally? never a time. It shouldn't exist. people are people. Societally? It takes literally half a minute of google searching to realize that yes, there was definitely a time where racism 'was the norm' and accepted in america. There's definitely 'attitude of the times' when back then people were literally raised to see black people as 'bad' to the point of being ushered away or sat in completely different spots even as kids. It becomes 'attitude of the times' when the civil rights act wasn't put in place until 1964. It becomes 'attitude of the times' when prior to that, there was Jim Crow laws that could segregate anything from bathrooms to water fountains. It becomes 'attitude of the times' when we still haven't ended racism in modern day cmon now.
Don't get me wrong Racism through and through is terrible and unexcuable, it makes no damn sense to treat people differently just due to something as minute as skin color or upbringings But unfortunately The general public opinion back then did NOT think that it was terrible to be racist. Now if you're racist, you actually get chastitised in most cases (especially famous people), but back then? lol, no. Maybe a small spark of controversy, or being disliked by some peers.
I started kindergarten in 1963, they were starting to integrate from all white kids to mixed, the adults had the problem, we kids didn't care, they were just more kids we thought we could play with, but we had different recess times. I remember crying when my taxi was there to pick me up, I didn't ride a school bus, my grandparents had a taxi driver for me, when I got home, I told my grandma about it, and she said, remember we all bleed red, the adults are acting worse than 2-year-old babies, I was lucky, I'm Native American but my skin is a medium tan color. All those poor kids wanted was an education and they were called names, spit at, had rotten food thrown at them, it was awful America is full of horrible red stains.
I was thirteen in 1965 when schools here were integrated. Blacks had to sit on the back of the bus. The white kids on my bus sat in the back of the bus, thinking it was cool.
I object to Brando being included. As a younger man he may have had the prejudices of his time, but his activism and also if you hear or read his interviews reflect that he evolved in his thinking.
Well,all one can do is see that they don’t become part of the problem by keeping their house in order. So as not to talk over anyone’s head,let me put it plain by saying check the man in the mirror,asking yourself how do you treat people who look different than you?🪞
It really amuses me when people say, well that's just how it was back then. As if that justifies it, just like some 80 plus year old guy stood in front of a crowd of us when I was a teenager and said the same thing about all of the lynchings that were going on in the 20s, 30s. 40s, 50s and 60s. It just sickens me how some people just think certain things are or were okay becaue of the time period these people lived in.
No one ever thought there was justification or that it was okay. The secret was to survive to teach the children how to be different - without having hatred in your own heart.
I grew up in a multi-racial neighbor hood and town. I heard racial,slurs and sexism comments from every adult around me.I did not understand, was confused and as a 9 year old boy I questioned the behavior. Instinctually I knew it was hateful and mean. Then in my teens I found myself part of that which I deplored. I struggled with those feelings and attitudes and was very confused. How and why was falling into that trap. On graduation day I took stock of myself and looked around. My childhood friends and I were all separating from each other. It was that moment as I recalled all those times with memories and thoughts of my multi racial school mates and friends I took deep regret with the path I was sliding into. The time was 1961, I found myself as an activist marching in civil rights protests and parades. Somehow my own conscience rescued me from falling into line with those who influenced me so negatively in thought and deed.
It's hard not to fall in line. You saw that you were doing so and decided to do the right thing. Too many of these Trump supporters decided that they would just fall in line with the hate that he promotes. It is sad and bad for the country. I wish that they were the only ones that will have to suffer, but that is not how it works.
I too, as a white, Southern, Trump supporting woman am proud of your turning attitude. I hope everyone receives the benefits President Trump is sure to bring OUR country. And you, dear sir or madam, are bigoted in your own right. So sad for you
@ guess we will see. Can’t be worse than what you have now. We are so blessed that we didn’t see war on American soil with YOUR president…. Yet. Hopefully we will get Trump in before he can do more damage
@@Annette-h6b Joe Biden wasn't going to start no war, that is the nonsense that Trump put into all y'alls head. That was classic Trump. Everything he ran on was about fear.
What does that have to do with anything? John Birch was an OSS operative in China to assist in the war against Japan. He was killed by a Communist Chinese who thought he was on the side of the Nationalists.
Ironically Walter Brennan didn't know that the true REAL MCCOY was a Black man inventer named ELIJAH MCCOY je held 57 patterns his others would try and copy his inventions but they were not as good so people would ask is this THE REAL MCCOY hats off to ELIJAH MCCOY walter Brennan may he rest in piss!!
By dead, they died a long time ago. Old Hollywood was a time and a place. Some of my relatives adored John Wayne, not just for his cowboy presence but also for the more wholesome westerns he gave them. They are history, but it's the kind of history one feels intrigued by.
Rather racist people are dead or alive they still have an idea of how their attitude about different people will still be thought of in our society 🤔. We must separate ourselves from hateful and obnoxious people in the world 🌎 today and tomorrow 🤔.
@@goodfoottoo there’s a saying never meet your heroes… for instance once I met Maria Osmond while she was headlining in “The Sound of Music” at that time she was selling her dolls on QVC. And she would sign them after the show. When meeting her it felt awkward. As if she wasn’t expecting to have any black fans Even though the dolls were black, go figure?
This is too complicated a topic to explain so each generation from the 1950’s (when I was born to now, 2024). Too much has changed (progressed) in 68 years. But I’ve seen open racism accepted in my family to gradually turn 180 degrees to within 30-40 years to become as far as I can see a progressive, liberal family , family wide. For example, in 1964 we were a solid GOLDWATER Republican block, to becoming a solid Democratic Clinton block. And have never looked back. And I am DAMN proud of that change. Our country has truly entered the darkest period in its 250+ period history. If MAGA zombies don’t snap out of their brain wash our democracy is gone. I don’t want to even think what shit is going to happen to “liberals “ like me and my family. I’m not an over the top Christian but I pray that - God please help these MAGA fanatics calm the Fuck down and drink the Jim Jones cool-aid.
We need Trump more now than ever at this pivotal point in time! To take a stand for womens’ right! To keep men out of their sports and taking their scholarships away!! You think that is right??? 16 million illegals in the last 4 years as per State Department you think that is riight?????? Open borders??? You want that??? Did you listen to kamalas unscripted inteviews she laughed and laughed and refused to even tell us her ancestry! I still dont know what it is! Did you not hear her speak?
Why is people standing up for human decency labeled as progressive? As far as Clark Gable it seems this video should not have included him. Calling him extremely racist seems a bit undeserving.
So Fred Astaire was the Eric Clapton of his time, if this is true. Chaplin, in his biography, was reading a book I had never heard of that was written by a Black man. Chaplin was of gypsy Romanian heritage and was confused as a Jew several times. I'm keeping Astaire, Chaplin, Gable, and Brando.
It's true that it wasn't uncommon for many Whites to use racist terms to describe Blacks, but Blacks did the same thing too even back then. Did you know, for example, that the C-Word was popularized by an African American Songwriter named Ernest Hogan in the 1890s when he wrote a tune entitled "All C-s look Alike to Me?" In fact some Blacks even use the C-Word in addition to the N-Word to this day, often to demean and shame other Blacks. The Rap industry has made millions off the N-Word, it still does. The N-Word-wrong then, wrong today. Wrong to use by Whites and Blacks alike.
Ok the n word here is a not what you think there's a difference between nigger and nigro one just mean black or kingly the other is not a real world also there is a land in Africa called Nigeria so when we use these words so understanding has to be there there's know such thing as a nigger that's not a word it was used because many Hebrews or african Americans lost who we was and are slave masters new this so it was just a joke to them that knew we were the the people of the book or the tribe of Israel not the people in Israel now they are ashconizis japhets people Hebrews are shem so don't complain about us using these terms because most of the time it's more accurate most of the people like Clark cable was of african decent himself and known as a rapist and a lot of them like John Wayne gary Cooper was gay or went both ways I believe most people that are racist are people that are passing for so called white because a lot a of these actors even now of some kind black ancestry you can't help that so called whites have problems carrying longterm pregnancy foren DNA of animals and diseases that will of the off spring there's not that many of them that's why they like military like groups the kkk are not who we think they are there part of the Vatican these people are part animals and human carry elian DNA fallen angel and mutation I can see why they hate us but yet they got certain oils they use to get melenation there is really know such thing as a white man because only a black man can have a black and so called white child with blue eyes there not even talking about a color of skin but a title and most so called white are dying out and there scared within a short period of time they will be comply extinct because every time they work on something to kill off us twice as many of them die there called dead skin are government really has fooled us they laugh but they don't even call themselves white and Hollywood is part of the political system these people are related you wood surprised how many of these olete people are related politicians and celebrity's its the only way to be a president movie star or royalist it's a bloodline family
Black people's racism is founded in experiences! They cannot deny you jobs, housing, education, judicial injustices, etc! We white people will destroy people for the color of their skin for no damn reasons at all! Sundown towns still exist, lynchings, job discrimination, etc. How many white people were lynched by black people? None!
C'mon dude and get real. You know that song Hogan wrote was done to appeal to white audiences who love minstrelsy. I wouldn't be surprised if Hogan did this song with burnt cork on his face. Minstrel show were nothing but pure racism. It was white people in burnt cork playing on racist stereotypes of black people. It became so popular that black people had to put on burnt cork if they wanted to appeal to these white audiences.
Clark Gable may not have spoken out more because he was afraid the Hollywood movie makers may not use him anymore. People are complicated. William Frawley was a good actor. So was Walter Brennan. William Frawley and Vivian Vance didn't get along. He was quite a few years older than Vance. Not a big fan of Disney. John Wayne also a great actor. James Stewart is another great actor. What you say about Vivian Leigh is not true. Vivian Leigh also gave Sammy Davis Jr. a Star of David and told him to hang onto it while he was being wheeled into the hospital. From what I have read they had to pry that out of Mr. Davis' hand and led to his conversion to the Jewish religion. Vivian Leigh could not have been prejudiced. In fact, what you say about most of these actors just reflected what society in general was like during their time. You are judging people that lived in the early twentieth century by values held in 2024. The two don't mix.
Is that what you say to yourself to relieve yourself of "white guilt"...the quackers have existed in the US almost as long as white supremacists...so there were a few white people of "those tomes" who had a conscious. Your words excuse people from having free will to CHOOSE to be racist, they aren't just born into racist times...they chose to be
@@annien.1727 I know, but to hate people who have not done anything to you or your family member , is sick. But that is okay, I don't put anyone on a pedestal anyways.
Jimmy Stewart was from Indiana, PA, not the state of Indiana. There's tons of mistakes in this video. Also, Sacheen Littlefeather, supposedly the "indigenous activist" sent by Brando to explain why he refused to show up to accept the Academy Award was really some woman of Mexican decent.
Distain for any whole group of people is unthinkable. Do better, truth be told. As youngster I would have been crushed to have known that Jimmy Stewart, “the every man “ would have held my race against me. I’m sure it would have been like finding out there’s no Santa Claus.💔
@ Me too,that was until I grew up, and got the memo that he a closeted racist. I don’t believe in love anyone who love me in return. Love is not a one way street. ↔️
This must be AI generated because that was a REACH regarding Katharine Hepburn. She was angry about the war and Pearl Harbor, which is different from simple prejudice. Your analogy was misleading. You should remove it ...
The fact is we aren't independent beings, we're born into circumstance, and we either learn to better ourselves and lose the prejudices that hold back development in all the different ways, or we fall behind and fall down as a society and as a country, any country. This we know as a result of thousands of years of human history, philosophy and science.
@@BacBac-g5e 😡💢💢STOP CALLING HOLLYWOOD "HOLLYWEIRD"!!! I absolutely HATE it when people call Hollywood that stupid name! Hollywood was always Hollywood, not "Hollyweird"!
Of course not , We outlawed the importation of slaves with the birth of our nation in 1776,We only fought a major War in 1861 to stop the spread of slavery. Abolished slavery and passed the 14th amendment. Ended Segregation and passed the 1964 Civil Rights law. Integrated Major league Baseball . We appointed a Black Supreme Court Justice, elected a Black President and selected a Black Female for Vice President, No changes since 1492? Have you ever read a history book? Or have you been hiding under a rock?
They’re not even from here. We’ve been here since day 1. That part they keep out of the books. Having Americans stuck on stupid. & laugh(ed) @ by the world for being stupid. & they’re proud of it. That Neanderthal blood runs deep.
Jimmy Stewart grew up in Indiana, Pennsylvania not far from Pittsburgh. He is not from the state of Indiana. His racism is disappointing. These attitudes are common today. Nothing has changed. Teach systemic racism in school.
We need to grow up all over again. The “N” word was in common everyday usage. I’ve heard these people actually use the word among themselves casually and amicably although not for many years. As a child and a northerner I was told it was improper and never used it though they used it in front of me. 21st century morality is not the final we need to put things into relevant historical contexts. John Wayne, who I find narrow and in military roles inaccurate and ridiculous and noted in my training as such in the Vietnam military era, still needs to be judged in the context of the world he grew up in
@ of course it isn’t right, all I am saying is we need to understand the historical context and hopefully grow from there not throw out the magnificent babies with the bathwater and be very watchful of our own biases. Many people become far too complaisant about their own beliefs. Freedom and the exercise of it is a big, constant job, if we were perfect there would be no reason to exist
@ I’m sorry. I just don’t see it that way regardless if he was or not. There were others who came up during that period and yet didn’t have the views of JW so that’s BS to me.
the american film industry, hollywood is still very racist, it has become sophisticated in its craft of racism and it isnt about to give up on it anytime soon.
ha! LIFE has already cancelled them. And as far as their legacy is concerned; in this modern internet-no-attention-span world, young people don't know these "stars" .... nor do they care to, for the most part. Their legacies only matter to the generations who are getting older (and perhaps more irrelevant) every day.
@@KahniTennessee I already knew what they were - and I never cared. Practically every human being on this planet is 'racist' as we are little more than talking apes that prefer the company of those that look similar to ourselves. That will never change until these beasts die out.
I'm an African American I'm not excusing such behavior. But these people are dead; wtf. I think there is more hatred in the world 🌎 today. It's in a different form. It's called judgment ! " He who is without sin cast the first stone ." we all have flaws and weaknesses
Many of us would be shocked at the attitudes of our great grandparents, as our great grandchildren may well be shocked by ours. I believe this paradigm has been with man from the dawn of civilization. These artist's views are preserved and discussed only because the general public is fascinated by them, a fate that my "unknown" great grandparents have escaped.
You are trying to make racism appear to be organic or something normal in Humanity it is not and was not Racism is a white man made VIRUS that has infected all of Humanity there were tribal wars and culture wars not RACISM as John Wayne stated survival the "WHITE" MAN is this planet TRUE MINIOITY racism MANIFEST DESTINY WHITE SUPREMACY was used to divide this planets overwhelming non white majority racism is not something that always existsed because " white" people have not always existed knowledge is power OVERSTANDING is GREATER
The ability to point out and expose the racial flaws and character in so many people often require the same content of behavior exiting in the heart and nature of the critic. They are as normal as every human being... imperfect with many faults. EVERY race has individuals who are prejudice no matter what their role in society is. Especially in today's Legacy Media and Progressive Society including Hollywood.
Is this AI generated, the narration as well? The way he pronounced Desi Arnaz's name. Spelling Katherine Hepburn's name with a "C". Taking out of context words spoken during wartime was unfair to Hepburn, the Japanese Army was little better than barbarians out of the Dark Ages. They raided surrounding towns around their bases in occupied areas for women, and after formation, the troops lined up by the scores to rape the women to death, or if almost dead they threw them into cesspools while alive, to laughter, this was repeated over and over in China. They ate captured Allied soldiers in isolated areas, with no refrigeration they instead carved slices of "meat" off them, for days till the victim eventually died. The Aussie soldiers they did that to, they referred to as "Aussie lamb or mutton", they were meat on the hoof. After capturing Major Thomas Smothers - father of the Smothers Brothers - he was put in the Bataan Death March, later a slave laborer in Japan, till they eventually murdered him. Any American alive in WW 2 would disdain Japan and it's people, only the Nazis were more ruthless in waging war. For no reason at all, they purposely starved to death over a million and a half Vietnamese in French Indo-China, because they could. A case could be made the allegations against Hepburn were unfair and skimpy on the details. Anyone reading this now, if they or their family were transported back to 1941 and then engaged in fighting Japan(after the sneak attack at Pearl Harbor) perhaps having a family member captured and murdered like Major Smothers, would not have anything good to say about a ruthless war time enemy either. "Timeless Vintage", please consider removing your unfair allegations against Hepburn.
Desi Arnaz was a Cuban who was highly grateful and humble for what America gave him. Katherine Hepburn was an exceptional performer who delighted millions for her work with Spencer Tracy. Of everything I read about Desi, Katherine, Spencer and countless others, I have not heard one account of them ever being called or considered racist. There were many more of these Old Hollywood people who pushed for others of all types, creeds and so forth to be accepted as people.
@@KratostheThird You are right, I think we are into "click bait" territory, taking down Hollywood icons will garner attention. I do know Walter Brennan being racist is true while the Hepburn allegations are garbage.
Thanks so much for this breakdown. My comments on each: Gable, as others have said, was part black. The "N" word was commonly used and wasn't considered a derogatory term until the late 1960s, early 1970s. The other "stars" OTOH were disgusting. Actions speak louder than words. Ever hear that phrase? Brennan, yes that pill hurt big time to swallow. I was surprised about Frawley. Disney didn't surprise me too much. But I do have Disney+ and still watch their stuff. Wayne. This one also hurt. I was getting into all his old films from when he started. Bad attitude, especially when he wanted to kill that native American woman at the Oscars. Chaplin??? NO! Well, he makes it easy to separate the art from the person. Stewart??? Never knew. One of my all time favorite actors. Hepburn? Never could get into much of her work, aside from ones with Tracey, and "The African Queen". As for prejudice against the Japanese during WW2? That's easy to understand to a degree. Likely the same sentiments against the Italians and Germans. Since she changed her attitude, that's a good thing. I may take up watching her films now. Vivien Leigh? Only saw her in "Gone". Fiddle dee dee. Cooper? Another I hadn't been too keen on. Except in "Mr Deeds goes to Town" and"Pride of the Yankees". Brando? Eh. Not a big fan. Yet again, he changed for the better. So, kudos to him. Artists of all kinds are temperamental. Crosby" Only cared for hm int he Road pictures. Astaire????? That is surprising as well. The "ideologies" have no place ever in the world of humanity. So sad. Separating the art from the artist? Yes, that's tough. I still watch "Support your Local Sheriff" with Brennan. He was hilarious in that. "The Real McCoys", he seemed like such a lovable grump with a big heart. "I Love Lucy", I still watch. Some old films I still enjoy, regardless. I put aside the fact that during those decades the racism was thick. It's still here to a big enough degree, but not as out in the open, except for a few heartless encouraged souls.
I mean it happens, I’m black and I just found out the drummer for My Chemical Romance was a raging racist, me being black now when I listen to their music, I think to myself, “ well if he was racist maybe the other band mates were too” and if I was even allowed to listen to this, or I meant to listen to their music.
I saw a picture of Fred Astaire In black face, So it comes to no surprise, he was a big influence of Michael Jackson, If he only knew Also Judy garlord wore black face too.
I'm sure Michael Jackson was inspired by both performers. But for this video to be argumentative and take on this Liberal/Left ideology is utterly pointless. John Wayne's comments in that magazine in 1971 were very public, but apart from that, I fail to see how much of this video shows any actual evidence that these Old Hollywood people were indeed racist. It's just trying to pick an argument, with no sources to back it up.
I am 86 years old and know that vaudeville performers wore blackface to be seen in the kerosene lamps before electricity. Even Pigmeat Markham, a black performer, wore blackface so as to show the lips and eyes in a darkened theater. Al Jolson became famous, not for the blackface, but for his strong voice which was needed before electricity. But people will find fault for what they want.
Clack gable? Yes. I thought it was common knowledge? He was an activist against discrimination against black people. This has always been well-known. These posts are just out here to stir the pot and divide our country 😒
Not half, but yes, Clark gable was definitely NOT a racist. He stood up for fellow actors & friends of color & was said to be of partial African-American ancestry.
I think it was Jonathan Swift who said the closer you get to a person, the worse they look. The thing is: if you throw out artists because of their personal behavior, we'd have very little art or no art at all.
Not shocking are the racists attitudes in past centuries in America and the world. Every group and nationality in America faced racism. Once a group survived the racism they then turned around and were mean to the next group arriving. What is more shocking is that in 2024 some of those attitudes still exist.
Because they are not here to defend themselves or sue. Except for Frawley and Brennan most of this guys proof is "Someone said." "There were allegations" "It is said" and his ridiculous attack on Hepburn is ridiculous. Imagine, not likening Japanese after they attacked Pearl Harbor and killed 2ooo sleeping sailors. Especially when the government was putting out dehumanizing propaganda? This is far from making her unique. This is nothing but a cheap smear job.
@@josephshields2922 As someone who has books on these people and has looked at better sources, I know that Frawley was an alcoholic who was a very big baseball fan. Lucy herself even said that Frawley was a baseball fan. But most everything said in this video is false and takes it all out of context. This video, many on Old Hollywood, important events like WW2, Vietnam, the 1950's are all now made by trash channels like this one. Not only are the performers gone but so are the people who worked with them off camera, the historians who visited Europe and talked person to person with those who witnessed the tragedies of the 1940's, etc. They're all dead too. So what has replaced them is young people, or in many cases artificial intelligence which feeds off of false information. I suggest people read more books, preferably older books from decades past that are accounts of those who were actually around to see people like John Wayne, and detail the horrors of 1940's era Europe and the consequences.
Exactly! Bring out the truth in the pudding while they're still alive. Why wait? Makes it look far much more shady and in question after these people that are no longer living.
Katherine Hepburn should not be in this list. As was pointed out in the video, during the 1940s, people were very upset at Japan and she shouldn't be singled out for it and she was very supportive of minorities and starred in "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner". Katherine Hepburn was an outspoken progressive. On the other hand Walter Brennan WAS as you described--a true racist and white supremacist--one of, if not the worst, celebrities to have been in Classic Hollywood. He WAS a gifted actor but a terrible human being.
Nothing surprises me no more. I mean there were racist actors and actresses back then and even today in Hollywood. Since all of them are dead, the ones that are in the video it is between them and Jesus Christ now.
Gable was part black and best friends with Hattie McDaniel his co-star in Gone With The Wind.. He was the exact opposite of what you are trying to portray in this hack job. You should be ashamed of yourself; but I know you’re not.
As a proud Hoosier. Most point out Jimmy Stewart was born and raised in Indiana, Pennsylvania. You implied small Indiana towns have racist tendencies. Lacy reporting. Wonder what else you got wrong.
How many times did we need to be asked if we could separate an actor's public image from their private views? It's up to me to decide? Well, thank you, sir. People are complicated? Who knew? You couldn't even spell Katherine Hepburn's name right.
When I was at Princeton, racism and sexism were standard...one can only imagine Stewart's era...they admitted women my first term, 69...women had their own dorm, locked entries. But the bathrooms were becoming coed a few years later...very different now. Oddly, Hepburn poisoned dozens of Japanese officers in "Dragon Seed"... Three or more of these actors were bi...and Hoover was very gay...always cognitively dissonant, to hear of how they failed to understand bigotry. Of course, as with Roy Cohn, many closeted gays, politicians especially, chose to portray bigotry about homosexuality, or, like Hoover, to blackmail and blackball them, blackening their legacies, to darkly underline the centrality of colored lines and color lines. A peculiar form of closetry, this chameleoning. Thank you. But your narration is very repetitive. Get an editor, perhaps.
Sorry, you're wrong about Crosby and probably most of the others. Bing refused to work in clubs that didn't allow African Americans. He paid for his black caddie's son for 4 year college degree and he refused to show up on the set if the set was segregated. Making distasteful jokes don't make someone a racist, rather reflects the biases of the times.
WHAT DO I THINK?? I think I'm tired of being asked what I think by a video that wouldn't hear my reply... "Oooh, let's be THOUGH PROVOKING in the most vacuous + unimaginative way imaginable!"
I have watched these film actors and loved them in their roles. Even though I won't stop looking at these movies, the starshine that I had for the actors and their movies and dulled.
Frankly, I don’t care. I watch the movie as a movie. These actors only played parts. Many talented people made it successful. I don’t specifically see the success of a movie by the main actor. There are other disturbing attributes just as bad as being prejudice. I would be worse than them if I let it affect me. Enjoy the movie, ignore their personal behaviors..it’s just a movie.
Art Babbit was a LIAR! A jealous, stupid liar. Walt Disney was NOT a antisemitic in any way! The Sherman Bros confirmed it many times. Walt Disney and the Sherman Bros were good friends, and they spoke very fondly of him after his passing. He even donated to many Jewish charities.
Yes these people were who they were in plain sight to their people on /in the Hollywood scene . But was kept mum to ua in the public . Because an actors image and how the studios wanted them portrait was a must. Image was everything back then. This type of news on these actors negative personal behavior and racial beliefs didn't come out til later. So no their reputation and legacy in Hollywoid won't change because they are seen as incidents out of time. And not as a real time incident. Shameful but true.
John Wayne was ignorant And definitely wasn't a hero
Ignorant means he didn’t know better; this racist proclaimed his racist ideology!
John Wayne was the man.
@@bobbyhenderson1987 No,don’t do that. Leave the Duke alone. His fans know who he is. God rest his soul, he was a good man,an American , through and through. Need I say I’m a fan. He was a damn good actor. My favorite movie of his was The Quiet Man.🍀
Ulol
Public Enemy made a song describing how r@cist Hollywood was in the past. It's called " burn Hollywood burn"
Gable merely reflected attitudes of the times. It is believed Gable had some Negro ancestry and he often went to bat for blacks, including co-workers. When Hattie McDaniel ( whom he adored) was not invited to the Atlanta premiere of GONE WITH THE WIND, he threatened to miss it. She talked him out of it.
There is never a time when racism is acceptable. No such thing as product of the times or attitude of the times.
@@MCfact1827 Morally? never a time. It shouldn't exist. people are people.
Societally? It takes literally half a minute of google searching to realize that yes, there was definitely a time where racism 'was the norm' and accepted in america.
There's definitely 'attitude of the times' when back then people were literally raised to see black people as 'bad' to the point of being ushered away or sat in completely different spots even as kids.
It becomes 'attitude of the times' when the civil rights act wasn't put in place until 1964.
It becomes 'attitude of the times' when prior to that, there was Jim Crow laws that could segregate anything from bathrooms to water fountains.
It becomes 'attitude of the times' when we still haven't ended racism in modern day
cmon now.
Don't get me wrong
Racism through and through is terrible and unexcuable, it makes no damn sense to treat people differently just due to something as minute as skin color or upbringings
But unfortunately
The general public opinion back then did NOT think that it was terrible to be racist.
Now if you're racist, you actually get chastitised in most cases (especially famous people), but back then? lol, no. Maybe a small spark of controversy, or being disliked by some peers.
Merely reflected the attitude of the times, what time it had to be to be decent.
All these white males suffer from physical low self esteem.
I started kindergarten in 1963, they were starting to integrate from all white kids to mixed, the adults had the problem, we kids didn't care, they were just more kids we thought we could play with, but we had different recess times. I remember crying when my taxi was there to pick me up, I didn't ride a school bus, my grandparents had a taxi driver for me, when I got home, I told my grandma about it, and she said, remember we all bleed red, the adults are acting worse than 2-year-old babies, I was lucky, I'm Native American but my skin is a medium tan color. All those poor kids wanted was an education and they were called names, spit at, had rotten food thrown at them, it was awful America is full of horrible red stains.
The worst thing that ever happened was mixing blacks with whites. 😢
@@terereynolds698 With the passing of time we should be getting better. Please have a tender heart your fellow man, kindness cost nothing.
Fuck it all.
I was thirteen in 1965 when schools here were integrated. Blacks had to sit on the back of the bus. The white kids on my bus sat in the back of the bus, thinking it was cool.
@ right the cool kids always knew to sit far away from the bus driver.🚌
With William Frawley being a two faced racist, i don't blame Vivian Vance for her ''CHAMPAGNE FOR EVERYONE'' comment.
I object to Brando being included. As a younger man he may have had the prejudices of his time, but his activism and also if you hear or read his interviews reflect that he evolved in his thinking.
He was at the March on Washington with Martin Luther King and took part in interviews out about civil rights
Brando and Pryor.
Brando does not belong on this list. He was a fierce champion for racial justice and equality
@@EarlHall-zi4cm
That's the internet for ya.
Well that's mighty white of him.
More racism now than ever.
I cant believe ppl really say dumb shit like this.. as if they've never read an American history book
Well,all one can do is see that they don’t become part of the problem by keeping their house in order. So as not to talk over anyone’s head,let me put it plain by saying check the man in the mirror,asking yourself how do you treat people who look different than you?🪞
Cuz t rump got us dividedand he hates everyone
It really amuses me when people say, well that's just how it was back then. As if that justifies it, just like some 80 plus year old guy stood in front of a crowd of us when I was a teenager and said the same thing about all of the lynchings that were going on in the 20s, 30s. 40s, 50s and 60s. It just sickens me how some people just think certain things are or were okay becaue of the time period these people lived in.
Agree 100% with your comment.
No one ever thought there was justification or that it was okay. The secret was to survive to teach the children how to be different - without having hatred in your own heart.
I grew up in a multi-racial neighbor hood and town. I heard racial,slurs and sexism comments from every adult around me.I did not understand, was confused and as a 9 year old boy I questioned the behavior. Instinctually I knew it was hateful and mean. Then in my teens I found myself part of that which I deplored. I struggled with those feelings and attitudes and was very confused. How and why was falling into that trap. On graduation day I took stock of myself and looked around. My childhood friends and I were all separating from each other. It was that moment as I recalled all those times with memories and thoughts of my multi racial school mates and friends I took deep regret with the path I was sliding into.
The time was 1961, I found myself as an activist marching in civil rights protests and parades. Somehow my own conscience rescued me from falling into line with those who influenced me so negatively in thought and deed.
It's hard not to fall in line. You saw that you were doing so and decided to do the right thing. Too many of these Trump supporters decided that they would just fall in line with the hate that he promotes. It is sad and bad for the country. I wish that they were the only ones that will have to suffer, but that is not how it works.
I too, as a white, Southern, Trump supporting woman am proud of your turning attitude. I hope everyone receives the benefits President Trump is sure to bring OUR country. And you, dear sir or madam, are bigoted in your own right. So sad for you
@@Annette-h6b I'll say this to you. You will come to rue the day that you voted Trump into office. Mark my words.
@ guess we will see. Can’t be worse than what you have now. We are so blessed that we didn’t see war on American soil with YOUR president…. Yet. Hopefully we will get Trump in before he can do more damage
@@Annette-h6b Joe Biden wasn't going to start no war, that is the nonsense that Trump put into all y'alls head. That was classic Trump. Everything he ran on was about fear.
John Wayne was also a member of the John Birtch society
What does that have to do with anything? John Birch was an OSS operative in China to assist in the war against Japan. He was killed by a Communist Chinese who thought he was on the side of the Nationalists.
Snowden and Assange have proven them to be 100 per cent correct.
It’s pretty well known though that John Wayne didn’t care for minorities
Ironically Walter Brennan didn't know that the true
REAL MCCOY was a Black man inventer named ELIJAH MCCOY je held 57 patterns his others would try and copy his inventions but they were not as good so people would ask is this THE REAL MCCOY hats off to ELIJAH MCCOY
walter Brennan
may he rest in piss!!
Those actors are dead now. Whether or not discriminations continue to the future will be the legacy of each of us living now.
By dead, they died a long time ago. Old Hollywood was a time and a place. Some of my relatives adored John Wayne, not just for his cowboy presence but also for the more wholesome westerns he gave them.
They are history, but it's the kind of history one feels intrigued by.
George Washington is dead but people still talk about him.
Rather racist people are dead or alive they still have an idea of how their attitude about different people will still be thought of in our society 🤔. We must separate ourselves from hateful and obnoxious people in the world 🌎 today and tomorrow 🤔.
@@romecottrell6444 100% with you.
I agree with your comment..
Pappy boington , a marine fighter ace , said "show me a hero , ill prove to you he is a bum ".
Breaks my heart that many people I admired were prejudiced; what a real shame…
I admire it.
@@goodfoottoo there’s a saying never meet your heroes… for instance once I met Maria Osmond while she was headlining in “The Sound of Music” at that time she was selling her dolls on QVC. And she would sign them after the show. When meeting her it felt awkward. As if she wasn’t expecting to have any black fans Even though the dolls were black, go figure?
Breaks my heart that y'all are so mindlessly offended by nothing. This clown making the video is a woke idiot
Grow up, open your eyes. See where the crimes and bad abrasive attitudes come from.
Yes, wouldn't it nice if everyone was as perfect as you . I am sure you have no prejudices.
This is too complicated a topic to explain so each generation from the 1950’s (when I was born to now, 2024). Too much has changed (progressed) in 68 years. But I’ve seen open racism accepted in my family to gradually turn 180 degrees to within 30-40 years to become as far as I can see a progressive, liberal family , family wide. For example, in 1964 we were a solid GOLDWATER Republican block, to becoming a solid Democratic Clinton block. And have never looked back. And I am DAMN proud of that change.
Our country has truly entered the darkest period in its 250+ period history. If MAGA zombies don’t snap out of their brain wash our democracy is gone. I don’t want to even think what shit is going to happen to “liberals “ like me and my family. I’m not an over the top Christian but I pray that - God please help these MAGA fanatics calm the Fuck down and drink the Jim Jones cool-aid.
Glad Trump soundly defeated witchy phoney commie Harris
We need Trump more now than ever at this pivotal point in time! To take a stand for womens’ right! To keep men out of their sports and taking their scholarships away!! You think that is right??? 16 million illegals in the last 4 years as per State Department you think that is riight?????? Open borders??? You want that??? Did you listen to kamalas unscripted inteviews she laughed and laughed and refused to even tell us her ancestry! I still dont know what it is! Did you not hear her speak?
It doesn't surprise me 😮😮😮
Why is people standing up for human decency labeled as progressive? As far as Clark Gable it seems this video should not have included him. Calling him extremely racist seems a bit undeserving.
Where is the evidence of Gable's racism?
I haven't found any.
He wasn't, this video is BS. Gable stood up for people like his fellow actor & friend, Hattie McDaniel.
None! Just because he said the “ n” word didnt make him a racist. Everyone said it.
Brando doesn't belong here either..
@ This is an AI video…
So Fred Astaire was the Eric Clapton of his time, if this is true.
Chaplin, in his biography, was reading a book I had never heard of that was written by a Black man. Chaplin was of gypsy Romanian heritage and was confused as a Jew several times.
I'm keeping Astaire, Chaplin, Gable, and Brando.
It's true that it wasn't uncommon for many Whites to use racist terms to describe Blacks, but Blacks did the same thing too even back then. Did you know, for example, that the C-Word was popularized by an African American Songwriter named Ernest Hogan in the 1890s when he wrote a tune entitled "All C-s look Alike to Me?"
In fact some Blacks even use the C-Word in addition to the N-Word to this day, often to demean and shame other Blacks. The Rap industry has made millions off the N-Word, it still does. The N-Word-wrong then, wrong today. Wrong to use by Whites and Blacks alike.
Ok the n word here is a not what you think there's a difference between nigger and nigro one just mean black or kingly the other is not a real world also there is a land in Africa called Nigeria so when we use these words so understanding has to be there there's know such thing as a nigger that's not a word it was used because many Hebrews or african Americans lost who we was and are slave masters new this so it was just a joke to them that knew we were the the people of the book or the tribe of Israel not the people in Israel now they are ashconizis japhets people Hebrews are shem so don't complain about us using these terms because most of the time it's more accurate most of the people like Clark cable was of african decent himself and known as a rapist and a lot of them like John Wayne gary Cooper was gay or went both ways I believe most people that are racist are people that are passing for so called white because a lot a of these actors even now of some kind black ancestry you can't help that so called whites have problems carrying longterm pregnancy foren DNA of animals and diseases that will of the off spring there's not that many of them that's why they like military like groups the kkk are not who we think they are there part of the Vatican these people are part animals and human carry elian DNA fallen angel and mutation I can see why they hate us but yet they got certain oils they use to get melenation there is really know such thing as a white man because only a black man can have a black and so called white child with blue eyes there not even talking about a color of skin but a title and most so called white are dying out and there scared within a short period of time they will be comply extinct because every time they work on something to kill off us twice as many of them die there called dead skin are government really has fooled us they laugh but they don't even call themselves white and Hollywood is part of the political system these people are related you wood surprised how many of these olete people are related politicians and celebrity's its the only way to be a president movie star or royalist it's a bloodline family
C&#$t is a slur against women of all races. I have often heard the cleaned up version “ all cats are alike in the dark.”
Black people's racism is founded in experiences! They cannot deny you jobs, housing, education, judicial injustices, etc! We white people will destroy people for the color of their skin for no damn reasons at all! Sundown towns still exist, lynchings, job discrimination, etc. How many white people were lynched by black people? None!
C'mon dude and get real. You know that song Hogan wrote was done to appeal to white audiences who love minstrelsy. I wouldn't be surprised if Hogan did this song with burnt cork on his face. Minstrel show were nothing but pure racism. It was white people in burnt cork playing on racist stereotypes of black people. It became so popular that black people had to put on burnt cork if they wanted to appeal to these white audiences.
I had to look this up, I was thinking of another c word.
Clark Gable may not have spoken out more because he was afraid the Hollywood movie makers may not use him anymore. People are complicated. William Frawley was a good actor. So was Walter Brennan. William Frawley and Vivian Vance didn't get along. He was quite a few years older than Vance. Not a big fan of Disney. John Wayne also a great actor. James Stewart is another great actor. What you say about Vivian Leigh is not true. Vivian Leigh also gave Sammy Davis Jr. a Star of David and told him to hang onto it while he was being wheeled into the hospital. From what I have read they had to pry that out of Mr. Davis' hand and led to his conversion to the Jewish religion. Vivian Leigh could not have been prejudiced. In fact, what you say about most of these actors just reflected what society in general was like during their time. You are judging people that lived in the early twentieth century by values held in 2024. The two don't mix.
Couldn't of said this better myself.
Is that what you say to yourself to relieve yourself of "white guilt"...the quackers have existed in the US almost as long as white supremacists...so there were a few white people of "those tomes" who had a conscious. Your words excuse people from having free will to CHOOSE to be racist, they aren't just born into racist times...they chose to be
Brando and Gable do not need to be on this list..
I am not surprised, I wouldnt expect anything better from them.
🙄💢💢Nobody is perfect, y'know.
@@annien.1727 I know, but to hate people who have not done anything to you or your family member , is sick. But that is okay, I don't put anyone on a pedestal anyways.
Jimmy Stewart was from Indiana, PA, not the state of Indiana. There's tons of mistakes in this video. Also, Sacheen Littlefeather, supposedly the "indigenous activist" sent by Brando to explain why he refused to show up to accept the Academy Award was really some woman of Mexican decent.
Yes there are. That's why this video isn't worth watching.
She was revealed to be an out-of-work actress named Maria Cruz.
It’s an obvious AI video.
@ Yes it is. Couldn’t pronounce Katherine Hepburn or Desi Arnaz correctly.
Y'all are just mad.
Distain for any whole group of people is unthinkable. Do better, truth be told. As youngster I would have been crushed to have known that Jimmy Stewart, “the every man “ would have held my race against me. I’m sure it would have been like finding out there’s no Santa Claus.💔
Don't base your view of the world on one inaccurate RUclips video.
Loved Jimmy Stewart.
@ Me too,that was until I grew up, and got the memo that he a closeted racist. I don’t believe in love anyone who love me in return. Love is not a one way street. ↔️
This must be AI generated because that was a REACH regarding Katharine Hepburn. She was angry about the war and Pearl Harbor, which is different from simple prejudice. Your analogy was misleading. You should remove it ...
The fact is we aren't independent beings, we're born into circumstance, and we either learn to better ourselves and lose the prejudices that hold back development in all the different ways, or we fall behind and fall down as a society and as a country, any country. This we know as a result of thousands of years of human history, philosophy and science.
Hollyweird was always Hollyweird
@@BacBac-g5e 😡💢💢STOP CALLING HOLLYWOOD "HOLLYWEIRD"!!! I absolutely HATE it when people call Hollywood that stupid name!
Hollywood was always Hollywood, not "Hollyweird"!
@@annien.1727 That's social media for you. Get over it.
European racism hit American shores 1492 from that day till now nothing has change much.
Of course not , We outlawed the importation of slaves with the birth of our nation in 1776,We only fought a major War in 1861 to stop the spread of slavery. Abolished slavery and passed the 14th amendment. Ended Segregation and passed the 1964 Civil Rights law. Integrated Major league Baseball . We appointed a Black Supreme Court Justice, elected a Black President and selected a Black Female for Vice President, No changes since 1492? Have you ever read a history book? Or have you been hiding under a rock?
I sucking emotion Junior comments
Even worse: Leif Erikson beat Columbus by 500 years, yet he never gets the credit.
They’re not even from here. We’ve been here since day 1. That part they keep out of the books. Having Americans stuck on stupid. & laugh(ed) @ by the world for being stupid. & they’re proud of it. That Neanderthal blood runs deep.
I dare anyone to debate you on this.
Most of these men were baloney smugglers...gay men!!!!!
Can you spot them & name them for us? Now that's not bigoted all is it?
@@DEZINE5 maybe there 🤔 is some suger in " your"tank 😏
@@rockinbiff yes they are easy to identity they tell on themselves constantly.
Jimmy Stewart grew up in Indiana, Pennsylvania not far from Pittsburgh. He is not from the state of Indiana. His racism is disappointing. These attitudes are common today. Nothing has changed. Teach systemic racism in school.
Fair minded people know which "colour " racism comes from nowadays .
Dsiappointing. Stewart was a high up in WW2.
@@peace-now Disappointing how? He was an actor. Many performers prior to the 1960's had similar attitudes.
Look up what Lincoln said about racial equality sometime.
Before or after he was killed for freeing the slaves?
@@josephshields2922 You mean how he burned down their civilization and threw them pell-mell on the street?
@@josephshields2922
good one
@@scronxWho's civilization?
@@KahniTennessee Southerners' generally, genius.
Never trust Wayne, he wore a wig.
I'm glad Disney was frozen, pos
He should be remembered as a Fascist.
How/why are People "surprised" though?!!!
Wow thank you for the information!
What you say about his company is what you say about society!
Tom sawyer (rush)
I was on a car trip with my family to NC in 1960 and saw 2 bathrooms, 1 white and 1 black. I asked my family what that meant.
It is rumored that on opening day of Disney Land, ordered reporters with cameras not film any minorities entering the park.😢
We need to grow up all over again. The “N” word was in common everyday usage. I’ve heard these people actually use the word among themselves casually and amicably although not for many years. As a child and a northerner I was told it was improper and never used it though they used it in front of me. 21st century morality is not the final we need to put things into relevant historical contexts. John Wayne, who I find narrow and in military roles inaccurate and ridiculous and noted in my training as such in the Vietnam military era, still needs to be judged in the context of the world he grew up in
It still wasn't right.
@ of course it isn’t right, all I am saying is we need to understand the historical context and hopefully grow from there not throw out the magnificent babies with the bathwater and be very watchful of our own biases. Many people become far too complaisant about their own beliefs. Freedom and the exercise of it is a big, constant job, if we were perfect there would be no reason to exist
@ I’m sorry. I just don’t see it that way regardless if he was or not. There were others who came up during that period and yet didn’t have the views of JW so that’s BS to me.
Exactly 💯 correct 😊
@@Supremmo Not your call -- or anyone's -- to make.
the american film industry, hollywood is still very racist, it has become sophisticated in its craft of racism and it isnt about to give up on it anytime soon.
Clark Gabriel was really black.
Let's not forget, these we're Christians, that you're talking about😮😮😮
Trying to cancel dead Hollywood relics is an exercise in futility.
ha! LIFE has already cancelled them. And as far as their legacy is concerned; in this modern internet-no-attention-span world, young people don't know these "stars" .... nor do they care to, for the most part. Their legacies only matter to the generations who are getting older (and perhaps more irrelevant) every day.
This is no more cancelling them as you could about the Founding Fathers. It's just telling more about them then you knew.
@@KahniTennessee I already knew what they were - and I never cared. Practically every human being on this planet is 'racist' as we are little more than talking apes that prefer the company of those that look similar to ourselves. That will never change until these beasts die out.
@@ERASEREPLACEPLACE That is my point.
@@vampirejesuschrist7876 Oh.
I'm an African American I'm not excusing such behavior. But these people are dead; wtf. I think there is more hatred in the world 🌎 today. It's in a different form. It's called judgment ! " He who is without sin cast the first stone ."
we all have flaws and weaknesses
"I'm an African American"
Do you have black friends as well
Who wasn’t a racist back then?
Myrna Loy, Melvyn Douglas--to name just two.
Betty Davis 👍
Many of us would be shocked at the attitudes of our great grandparents, as our great grandchildren may well be shocked by ours. I believe this paradigm has been with man from the dawn of civilization. These artist's views are preserved and discussed only because the general public is fascinated by them, a fate that my "unknown" great grandparents have escaped.
You are trying to make racism appear to be organic or something normal in Humanity it is not and was not Racism is a white man made VIRUS that has infected all of Humanity there were tribal wars and culture wars not RACISM as John Wayne stated survival the "WHITE" MAN is this planet TRUE MINIOITY racism MANIFEST DESTINY WHITE SUPREMACY was used to divide this planets overwhelming non white majority racism is not something that always existsed because " white" people have not always existed knowledge is power OVERSTANDING is GREATER
Not Indiana the state, but Indiana, Pennsylvania
The ability to point out and expose the racial flaws and character in so many people often require the same content of behavior exiting in the heart and nature of the critic. They are as normal as every human being... imperfect with many faults. EVERY race has individuals who are prejudice no matter what their role in society is. Especially in today's Legacy Media and Progressive Society including Hollywood.
Is this AI generated, the narration as well? The way he pronounced Desi Arnaz's name. Spelling Katherine Hepburn's name with a "C".
Taking out of context words spoken during wartime was unfair to Hepburn, the Japanese Army was little better than barbarians out of the Dark
Ages. They raided surrounding towns around their bases in occupied areas for women, and after formation, the troops lined up by the scores
to rape the women to death, or if almost dead they threw them into cesspools while alive, to laughter, this was repeated over and over
in China. They ate captured Allied soldiers in isolated areas, with no refrigeration they instead carved slices of "meat" off them, for days
till the victim eventually died. The Aussie soldiers they did that to, they referred to as "Aussie lamb or mutton", they were meat on the hoof.
After capturing Major Thomas Smothers - father of the Smothers Brothers - he was put in the Bataan Death March, later a slave laborer
in Japan, till they eventually murdered him. Any American alive in WW 2 would disdain Japan and it's people, only the Nazis were more
ruthless in waging war. For no reason at all, they purposely starved to death over a million and a half Vietnamese in French Indo-China,
because they could.
A case could be made the allegations against Hepburn were unfair and skimpy on the details.
Anyone reading this now, if they or their family were transported back to 1941 and then engaged in fighting Japan(after the sneak attack at Pearl Harbor) perhaps having a family member captured and murdered like Major Smothers, would not have anything good to say about a
ruthless war time enemy either.
"Timeless Vintage", please consider removing your unfair allegations against Hepburn.
Desi Arnaz was a Cuban who was highly grateful and humble for what America gave him. Katherine Hepburn was an exceptional performer who delighted millions for her work with Spencer Tracy.
Of everything I read about Desi, Katherine, Spencer and countless others, I have not heard one account of them ever being called or considered racist. There were many more of these Old Hollywood people who pushed for others of all types, creeds and so forth to be accepted as people.
@@KratostheThird You are right, I think we are into "click bait" territory, taking down Hollywood icons will garner attention.
I do know Walter Brennan being racist is true while the Hepburn allegations are garbage.
I have a serious issue with Clark Gable being on this list....
Not just Hepburn Most people in the 40s had a destine for Japanese
Thanks so much for this breakdown. My comments on each: Gable, as others have said, was part black. The "N" word was commonly used and wasn't considered a derogatory term until the late 1960s, early 1970s. The other "stars" OTOH were disgusting. Actions speak louder than words. Ever hear that phrase? Brennan, yes that pill hurt big time to swallow. I was surprised about Frawley. Disney didn't surprise me too much. But I do have Disney+ and still watch their stuff. Wayne. This one also hurt. I was getting into all his old films from when he started. Bad attitude, especially when he wanted to kill that native American woman at the Oscars. Chaplin??? NO! Well, he makes it easy to separate the art from the person. Stewart??? Never knew. One of my all time favorite actors. Hepburn? Never could get into much of her work, aside from ones with Tracey, and "The African Queen". As for prejudice against the Japanese during WW2? That's easy to understand to a degree. Likely the same sentiments against the Italians and Germans. Since she changed her attitude, that's a good thing. I may take up watching her films now. Vivien Leigh? Only saw her in "Gone". Fiddle dee dee. Cooper? Another I hadn't been too keen on. Except in "Mr Deeds goes to Town" and"Pride of the Yankees". Brando? Eh. Not a big fan. Yet again, he changed for the better. So, kudos to him. Artists of all kinds are temperamental. Crosby" Only cared for hm int he Road pictures. Astaire????? That is surprising as well. The "ideologies" have no place ever in the world of humanity. So sad. Separating the art from the artist? Yes, that's tough. I still watch "Support your Local Sheriff" with Brennan. He was hilarious in that. "The Real McCoys", he seemed like such a lovable grump with a big heart. "I Love Lucy", I still watch. Some old films I still enjoy, regardless. I put aside the fact that during those decades the racism was thick. It's still here to a big enough degree, but not as out in the open, except for a few heartless encouraged souls.
If someone tell you in the 1950s your attitudes belonged in the 1920s, you were super out there with it..
not surprised.... especially those who played cowboy roles😐
Thank you for the information!
Ar-nez'
Walter Brennan racism:
ruclips.net/video/lEi9zL9NsdQ/видео.html
No mention of Charles Voburn and Robert Mitchum!
Chris Moltisanti of the Sopranos " Gary Cooper was gay?"
I mean it happens, I’m black and I just found out the drummer for My Chemical Romance was a raging racist, me being black now when I listen to their music, I think to myself, “ well if he was racist maybe the other band mates were too” and if I was even allowed to listen to this, or I meant to listen to their music.
I had no idea these ppl were so based 😂. They've gained a new fan
I saw a picture of Fred Astaire In black face, So it comes to no surprise, he was a big influence of Michael Jackson, If he only knew Also Judy garlord wore black face too.
I'm sure Michael Jackson was inspired by both performers. But for this video to be argumentative and take on this Liberal/Left ideology is utterly pointless.
John Wayne's comments in that magazine in 1971 were very public, but apart from that, I fail to see how much of this video shows any actual evidence that these Old Hollywood people were indeed racist. It's just trying to pick an argument, with no sources to back it up.
I am 86 years old and know that vaudeville performers wore blackface to be seen in the kerosene lamps before electricity. Even Pigmeat Markham, a black performer, wore blackface so as to show the lips and eyes in a darkened theater. Al Jolson became famous, not for the blackface, but for his strong voice which was needed before electricity. But people will find fault for what they want.
@ Thank you. Always good to hear an older person speak on this stuff.
Gable shouldnt have been on this list
Most of those dudes were raging homosexuals as well
And after all this talk, they are still remembered as LEGENDS OF HOLLYWOOD
😲🤔Isn't he half "Afro-american!!??🙄🤪🤨
Clack gable? Yes. I thought it was common knowledge? He was an activist against discrimination against black people. This has always been well-known. These posts are just out here to stir the pot and divide our country 😒
Not half, but yes, Clark gable was definitely NOT a racist. He stood up for fellow actors & friends of color & was said to be of partial African-American ancestry.
@@rockinbiffwrong
I thought that Clark Gable was black passing for white!!!
I think it was Jonathan Swift who said the closer you get to a person, the worse they look. The thing is: if you throw out artists because of their personal behavior, we'd have very little art or no art at all.
Very true. I had a very racist Staff Sergeant that also put his life on the line for me. You have to weigh thing in this life.
If it ain't the pot calling the kettle black, Clark Gable had black blood running through his veins when he was here on Earth 🤔❓👀🤨
I never liked John Wayne ever
I agree. I think he was a lousy actor snd how he got as far as he did in Hollywood is beyond me.
@@hollycossin5614he sold out like many do
It's called systemic racism.
And the Democrats run the system.
Not shocking are the racists attitudes in past centuries in America and the world. Every group and nationality in America faced racism. Once a group survived the racism they then turned around and were mean to the next group arriving. What is more shocking is that in 2024 some of those attitudes still exist.
it still is and forever will be and it not just blacks either.. look whats happening now
Why is it after someone dies people Say All sorts of Bad things they did or didn't Do!
Because they are not here to defend themselves or sue. Except for Frawley and Brennan most of this guys proof is "Someone said." "There were allegations" "It is said" and his ridiculous attack on Hepburn is ridiculous. Imagine, not likening Japanese after they attacked Pearl Harbor and killed 2ooo sleeping sailors. Especially when the government was putting out dehumanizing propaganda? This is far from making her unique. This is nothing but a cheap smear job.
@@josephshields2922 As someone who has books on these people and has looked at better sources, I know that Frawley was an alcoholic who was a very big baseball fan. Lucy herself even said that Frawley was a baseball fan. But most everything said in this video is false and takes it all out of context.
This video, many on Old Hollywood, important events like WW2, Vietnam, the 1950's are all now made by trash channels like this one. Not only are the performers gone but so are the people who worked with them off camera, the historians who visited Europe and talked person to person with those who witnessed the tragedies of the 1940's, etc. They're all dead too. So what has replaced them is young people, or in many cases artificial intelligence which feeds off of false information.
I suggest people read more books, preferably older books from decades past that are accounts of those who were actually around to see people like John Wayne, and detail the horrors of 1940's era Europe and the consequences.
Exactly! Bring out the truth in the pudding while they're still alive. Why wait? Makes it look far much more shady and in question after these people that are no longer living.
@@KratostheThirdNice try😏
@@zenkiea9663 So that means a historian cannot write an objective well researched biography of these people after they die?
Katherine Hepburn should not be in this list. As was pointed out in the video, during the 1940s, people were very upset at Japan and she shouldn't be singled out for it and she was very supportive of minorities and starred in "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner". Katherine Hepburn was an outspoken progressive. On the other hand Walter Brennan WAS as you described--a true racist and white supremacist--one of, if not the worst, celebrities to have been in Classic Hollywood. He WAS a gifted actor but a terrible human being.
Let’s stop talking about this as if it was something that was in the past😒
Yet all three of The Duke's wives were Latinas.😮😅😊 😢
Hollywerid aka Hollywood is racist still & filled with wicked energy as well.
Nothing surprises me no more. I mean there were racist actors and actresses back then and even today in Hollywood. Since all of them are dead, the ones that are in the video it is between them and Jesus Christ now.
Gable was part black and best friends with Hattie McDaniel his co-star in Gone With The Wind.. He was the exact opposite of what you are trying to portray in this hack job. You should be ashamed of yourself; but I know you’re not.
As a proud Hoosier. Most point out Jimmy Stewart was born and raised in Indiana, Pennsylvania. You implied small Indiana towns have racist tendencies. Lacy reporting. Wonder what else you got wrong.
Take Gable off your list
And take Fred Mertz off your list too.......oh...never mind, keep him on the list.
How many times did we need to be asked if we could separate an actor's public image from their private views? It's up to me to decide? Well, thank you, sir. People are complicated? Who knew? You couldn't even spell Katherine Hepburn's name right.
This video is not worth watching. I made it about halfway thru befor giving up.
This is a revisionist, woke channel.
Truth hurts.
Everybody was racist back then, and every country also
NOT TRUE‼🤔
False. Do your research.
Is there a point you are trying to make?
When I was at Princeton, racism and sexism were standard...one can only imagine Stewart's era...they admitted women my first term, 69...women had their own dorm, locked entries. But the bathrooms were becoming coed a few years later...very different now. Oddly, Hepburn poisoned dozens of Japanese officers in "Dragon Seed"... Three or more of these actors were bi...and Hoover was very gay...always cognitively dissonant, to hear of how they failed to understand bigotry. Of course, as with Roy Cohn, many closeted gays, politicians especially, chose to portray bigotry about homosexuality, or, like Hoover, to blackmail and blackball them, blackening their legacies, to darkly underline the centrality of colored lines and color lines. A peculiar form of closetry, this chameleoning.
Thank you. But your narration is very repetitive. Get an editor, perhaps.
Sorry, you're wrong about Crosby and probably most of the others. Bing refused to work in clubs that didn't allow African Americans. He paid for his black caddie's son for 4 year college degree and he refused to show up on the set if the set was segregated. Making distasteful jokes don't make someone a racist, rather reflects the biases of the times.
WHAT DO I THINK??
I think I'm tired of being asked what I think by a video that wouldn't hear my reply...
"Oooh, let's be THOUGH PROVOKING in the most vacuous + unimaginative way imaginable!"
Why didn't they mention the fact that Clark gable was black.
Lets just say that it was difficult for Walt Disney to do what he did and not everyone helped him.......
I don't know if that's true about Clark Gable because it was rumored that he was part black.
Hepburn the lesbian
Brandi’s stand in for the Oscar’s awards was not a Native American as claimed.
I have watched these film actors and loved them in their roles. Even though I won't stop looking at these movies, the starshine that I had for the actors and their movies and dulled.
Frankly, I don’t care. I watch the movie as a movie. These actors only played parts. Many talented people made it successful. I don’t specifically see the success of a movie by the main actor. There are other disturbing attributes just as bad as being prejudice. I would be worse than them if I let it affect me. Enjoy the movie, ignore their personal behaviors..it’s just a movie.
Art Babbit was a LIAR! A jealous, stupid liar. Walt Disney was NOT a antisemitic in any way! The Sherman Bros confirmed it many times.
Walt Disney and the Sherman Bros were good friends, and they spoke very fondly of him after his passing. He even donated to many Jewish charities.
🎶And that was yesterday,and yesterday’s gone🎶🤔
No,in the first two stories you may have got me. Not with Disney or the
Duke. Smears more like it 11:42
What nonsense about Chaplin..and pathetic libelous against Gable. Judge on actions not contextual words
Yes these people were who they were in plain sight to their people on /in the Hollywood scene . But was kept mum to ua in the public . Because an actors image and how the studios wanted them portrait was a must. Image was everything back then. This type of news on these actors negative personal behavior and racial beliefs didn't come out til later. So no their reputation and legacy in Hollywoid won't change because they are seen as incidents out of time. And not as a real time incident. Shameful but true.