<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article possibly contains original research . Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations . Statements consisting only of original research should be removed . (October 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> Stander was among the first group of Hollywood actors to be subpoenaed before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1940 for supposed Communist activities . At a grand jury hearing in Los Angeles in August 1940--the transcript of which was shortly released to the press--John R. Leech, the self - described former "chief functionary" of the Communist Party in Los Angeles, named Stander as a CP member, along with more than 15 other Hollywood notables, including Franchot Tone, Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Clifford Odets and Budd Schulberg . Stander subsequently forced himself into the grand jury hearing, and the district attorney cleared him of the allegations . </P> <P> Stander appeared in no films between 1944 and 1945 . Then, with HUAC's attentions focused elsewhere due to World War II, he played in a number of mostly second - rate pictures from independent studios through the late 1940s . These include Ben Hecht's Specter of the Rose (1946); the Preston Sturges comedy The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947) with Harold Lloyd; and Trouble Makers (1948) with The Bowery Boys . One classic emerged from this period of his career, the Preston Sturges comedy Unfaithfully Yours (1948) with Rex Harrison . </P> <P> In 1947, HUAC turned its attention once again to Hollywood . That October, Howard Rushmore, who had belonged to the CPUSA in the 1930s and written film reviews for the Daily Worker, testified that writer John Howard Lawson, whom he named as a Communist, had "referred to Lionel Stander as a perfect example of how a Communist should not act in Hollywood ." Stander was again blacklisted from films, though he played on TV, radio, and in the theater . </P>

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