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Lee Grant
Grant in 1967
Born
Lyova Haskell Rosenthal

October 31, during the mid-1920s[a](age96–98).
New York City, U.S.
Alma materNeighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre
Actors Studio
Occupation(s)Actress and director
Years active1931–present
Spouses
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(m.1951;div.1960)​
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(m.1970)​
Children2, includingDinah Manoff

Lee Grant(bornLyova Haskell Rosenthal;October 31, during the mid-1920s)[a]is an American actress, documentarian, and director. For her film debut in 1951 as a young shoplifter in William Wyler'sDetective Story,Grant earned anOscarnomination forBest Supporting Actressand won theBest Actress Awardat the1952 Cannes Film Festival.Grant won the Best Supporting ActressOscarfor her role asWarren Beatty's older lover inShampoo(1975).

Grant was one of many entertainment industry professionalsblacklistedduring the 1950s. Starting in 1952, for 12 years Grant was largely prevented from finding employment in acting, although she did occasionally get work onscreen, onstage, and as a teacher during this period. She began to be hired for more roles in the mid-1960s and concentrated on rebuilding her acting career.

Grant starred in 71 TV episodes ofPeyton Place(1965–1966), followed by lead roles in films such asValley of the DollsandIn the Heat of the Nightin 1967. In 1964, she won theObie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Actressfor her performance inThe Maids.During her career, she won twoEmmy Awardsand was nominated seven times.

Grant later turned her focus to directing. In 1986, she won aDirectors Guild of America AwardforNobody's Child.In 1987, the documentary she directed,Down and Out in America,tied for theAcademy Award for Best Documentary Feature.[1]

Early life

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Lee Grantwas bornLyova Haskell Rosenthal[2][3]inManhattan,the only child of Witia (née Haskell), achild careworker, and Abraham W. Rosenthal, arealtorand educator. Her father was born in New York City, toPolish Jewishimmigrants, and her mother was aRussian Jewishimmigrant[4]who, along with her sister Fremo, left Odessa to escape thepogroms.The family resided at 148th Street andRiversidein theHamilton Heightsneighborhood of Manhattan.[5]

Her birthday is October 31, but the year is disputed, with all years ranging from 1925 to 1931 having been given as her year of birth at some point; however, census data, travel manifests, and testimony suggest that she was born in 1925 or 1926, while Grant's stated ages at the time of her professional debut and Oscar nomination indicate she was born in 1927.[a]

Grant made her stage debut inL'Oracoloat theMetropolitan Operain 1931[6][7]and later joined theAmerican Balletas an adolescent.[8]She attendedArt Students League of New York,Juilliard School of Music,The High School of Music & Art,andGeorge Washington High School,all in New York City. Grant graduated from high school and won a scholarship to theNeighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre,where she studied underSanford Meisner.Grant undertook further study withUta Hagenat theHB Studio.[9]She later enrolled in theActors Studioin New York.

Career

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1930s–1950s

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Grant had her first stage ballet performance in 1933 at theMetropolitan Opera House.[10]In 1938, in her early teens, she was made a member of the American Ballet underGeorge Balanchine.[10]As an actress, Grant had her professional stage debut as understudy inOklahoma!in 1944. In 1948, she had her Broadway acting debut inJoy to the World.Grant established herself as a dramaticmethodactress on and off Broadway, earning praise for her first major role as a shoplifter inDetective Storyin 1949.[11]

She made her film debut two years later in the 1951 film version (Detective Story), starringKirk Douglas,receiving her firstAcademy Award for Best Supporting Actressnomination, and winning theBest Actress Awardat theCannes Film Festival.[12]She said she enjoyed working under directorWilliam Wyler,who helped guide her.[13]

But as quickly as that dream unfolded, her life soon turned into a nightmare... So right when her career should have been blooming, she was banned from working in Hollywood. And that ban lasted for twelve years, a lifetime for an actor.

Robert Osborne,Turner Classic Moviesinterview[14]

In 1951, she gave an impassioned eulogy at the memorial service for actorJ. Edward Bromberg,whose early death, she implied, was caused by the stress of being called before theHouse Un-American Activities Committee(HUAC). Her name soon after appeared in the publicationRed Channels,and as a result, for the next twelve years, her "prime years" as she put it,[15]she wasblacklistedand her work in television and movies was limited.[16]

Kirk Douglas, who acted with her inDetective Story,recalled that directorEdward Dmytryk,a blacklistee, had first named her husband at the HUAC:

Lee was only a kid, a beautiful young girl with extraordinary talent and a big future. You could see it. She was so good that she earned a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her very first film role. But because Eddie Dmytryk named her husband, Lee Grant was blacklisted before her film career even had a chance to begin. Of course, she refused to testify about the man to whom she was married, and it took years before anyone would hire her for another picture.[17]

Grant appeared in a number of plays, two feature films, and in a few small television roles during her blacklisted years. In 1953, she played Rose Peabody in the soap operaSearch for Tomorrow,had featured supporting roles in the film dramasStorm Fearin 1955, andMiddle of the Nightin 1959. On stage, Grant starred in the Broadway production ofTwo for the Seesaw.In 1959, she succeededAnne Bancroftin the lead female role.[18]That same year, she had a supporting role in the romantic dramaMiddle of the Night.

1960s

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Grant in 1961

By the time Grant's name was removed from the blacklist in the mid-1960s, she was the divorced mother of a daughter,Dinah.Grant began re-establishing her television and movie career. In her autobiography, she writes:

Dinah was my grail, my constant; nothing and no one could get between us. Dinah and my need to support her financially, morally, viscerally, and my rage at those who had taken twelve working, acting years from my life, were what motivated me.[19]: 250 

Her experience with the blacklist scarred her to such an extent that as late as 2002, she would freeze and go into a "near trance" when anyone asked her about her experiences during the McCarthy period.[20]

Grant's first major achievement, after HUAC officially cleared her, was in the 1960s television seriesPeyton PlaceasStella Chernak,[21]for which she won anEmmyin 1966. In 1963, she won acclaim for her stage performance in the off-Broadway production ofJean Genet'sThe Maids.In 1967, she played the distraught widow of a murder victim in the Oscar-winningIn the Heat of the Night.[10][22]In 1968, Grant appeared in an episode ofMission Impossible,portraying the wife of a U.S. diplomat who goes undercover to discredit a rogue diplomat. In 1969, she had supporting roles in the crime dramaThe Big Bounceand science fiction dramaMarooned,but they were not successful.

1970s

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Grant received three Academy Award nominations in the 1970s forThe Landlord(1970),Shampoo(1975), andVoyage of the Damned(1976). InPlaza Suite(1971), a successful comedy directed byArthur Hillerand written byNeil Simon;she played the harried mother of a bride, withWalter Matthauas the father.

In March 1971, Grant played the murderer in theColumbopilot episode"Ransom for a Dead Man", playing oppositePeter Falk'sLieutenant Columbo.For that role, she was nominated for anEmmyas Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie. That same year, she also received a second Emmy nomination in the same category ofOutstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Rolefor her performance in the television filmThe Neon Ceiling,which she won.

Grant reunited with Peter Falk onBroadwayin the original production ofThe Prisoner of Second Avenue,written byNeil Simon;the playwright said that his "first and only choice" for the part was Grant, who he said was equally at home with dramatists such asChekhovorSidney Kingsley,yet could also be "hilariously funny" when the script called for it, for she was able to portray essential honesty in her acting.[23]

Grant won anOscarfor Best Supporting Actress playingWarren Beatty's older lover inShampoo(1975). The film was Columbia's biggest hit in the studio's 50-year history.[24]Shampoowas the second film in which Grant acted under directorHal Ashby.CriticPauline Kael,comparing her in both films, noted Grant "is such a cool-style comedienne that she's in danger of having people say that she's good, as usual."[25]During the filming, however, she did have some serious disagreements with Beatty, who was also the producer, and nearly quit. During one scene, she wanted to play it in a way she felt was more realistic from a woman's perspective, but Beatty disagreed. After thinking about the scene for a few days, she told director Ashby that she could not do it Beatty's way and was quitting. As she was walking out, Beatty stopped her, and asked what was wrong. "I sat down and told him," she said. "He threw up his hands and said, 'Play it your way. What do I know? I'm a man.'"[26]

Grant in 1975

Despite the success of the film and her career, Grant was feeling less secure in Hollywood, as she was then around 50 years old. She writes:

I was becoming my own worst enemy as an actor, traumatized onstage and fixated on staying young so I could keep working in film. A woman of a certain age does not play in movies or TV; we're kicked to the side or out. And I was a woman of a certain age, terrified I'd be found out and unemployed again.[19]: 213 

During the 1975-76 television season, she starred in the sitcomFay,which, to her chagrin, was canceled after eight episodes. In 1977, she starred in the ensemble disaster movieAirport '77and in 1978, she was the lead actress in the horror filmDamien - Omen II,also starringWilliam Holden.Both films drew negative reviews, though they were financially successful. She made a guest appearance inEmpty Nest,in which her daughterDinah Manoffco-starred.

In the late 1970s, Grant was asked by theAmerican Film Instituteto participate in the firstAFI Directing Workshop for Women.[27]During the workshop, Grant successfully moved into directing when she adapted the playThe Strongerin 1976, written byAugust Strindberg.

1980s–1990s

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In 1980, Grant directed her first feature film,Tell Me a Riddle,a story about an aging Jewish couple. That debut narrative film was followed by a widely distributed documentary film titledThe Willmar 8,which profiledeight female employeesof a bank in Willmar, Minnesota who went on strike to protest pay inequities between male and female bank tellers. Grant went on to direct many documentaries on a variety of social issues: women in prison withWhen Women Kill(1983), transgender individuals withWhat Sex Am I?(1985), women experiencing domestic abuse withBattered(1989), and women trying to keep custody of their children in court inWomen on Trial(1992).

Grant at the premiere ofF.I.S.T.(April 1978)

In 1986, Grant directedDown and Out in America(1986) which won theAcademy Award for Documentary Feature.The film was about farm workers losing their farms, homelessness, and unemployment in America. The same year, she directedNobody's Child,a television movie starringMarlo Thomasabout a woman confined to a mental institution for 20 years. Grant became the first female director to win theDirectors Guild of America Award.[16]

She starred in anHBOremake ofPlaza Suitein 1982, co-starring withJerry Orbach,both playing three different characters in three acts. It was filmed before a live audience.[28][29]ActorBruce Dern,who acted with her inThe Big Town(1987), recalls working with her: "Lee Grant is a fabulous actress. Anytime she works it's a blessing you have her in your movie."[30]

In 1988, she was awarded theWomen in Film Crystal Awardfor outstanding women who through their endurance and the excellence of their work have helped to expand the role of women within the entertainment industry.[31]

Admiring her directing and acting skill, actressSissy Spacekagreed to act in the romantic comedyHard Promises(1991) "only to work with Grant", although Grant was later replaced as its director.[32]In 1992, Grant played Dora Cohn, the mother ofRoy Cohnin the biographical made-for-TV filmCitizen Cohn,which garnered her another Primetime Emmy Award nomination. In 1994, she directed the television filmSeasons of the Heart,starringCarol BurnettandGeorge Segal.

2000s–present

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In 2001, Lee Grant portrayed Louise Bonner inDavid Lynch's critically acclaimedMulholland Drive.From 2004 to 2007,Carlin Glynn,Stephen Lang,and Grant served as co-artistic directors for theActors Studio.[33]In the early 2000s, Grant directed a series ofIntimate Portraitepisodes for Lifetime Television, that celebrated a diverse range of accomplished women.

In 2013, Grant briefly returned to the stage, after a nearly forty-year absence, to star in one performance ofThe Gin Game,part of a benefit for improvement programs at the Island Music Guild, inBainbridge Island, Washington.[34]Grant played Fonsia Dorsey oppositeFrank Buxtonas Weller Martin; her daughterDinah Manoffdirected the production.[34]

After a fourteen-year hiatus, Lee Grant played a small part in the filmKillian & the Comeback Kids(2020), directed byTaylor A. Purdee.[35]

Grant's career making documentaries in the 1980s and 1990s was honored with an appearance on theAmerican Film Institute'sAFI Docsat its Guggenheim Symposium and with a program, "20th Century Woman: The Documentary Films of Lee Grant", onAFI Silverand othervirtual cinemasin mid-2020. This became the first virtual repertory film series in America.[36][37]

As of 2022, she is still the onlyAcademy Award-winning actor to also direct anAcademy Award-winningdocumentary.[38]

In January 2024, she attended theNew York Film Festival,where the first two films she directed were shown in the revivals program, and talked about her directing career in apanelhosted byTurner Classic Movies.[5]

Filmography

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Actress

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Year Film Role Notes
1951 Detective Story Shoplifter
1953–1954 Search for Tomorrow Rose Peabody #1
1955 Storm Fear Edna Rogers
1959 Middle of the Night Marilyn
1963 The Balcony Carmen
An Affair of the Skin Katherine McCleod
1964 Pie in the Sky Suzy Filmed in 1962, released 1964. Retitled "Terror in the City".
The Fugitive Millie Hallop Episode: "Taps for a Dead War"
1965–1966 Peyton Place Stella Chernak 71 episodes (August 19, 1965 – March 28, 1966)
1967 Divorce American Style Dede Murphy
In the Heat of the Night Mrs. Leslie Colbert
Valley of the Dolls Miriam
The Big Valley Rosemary Williams Episode: "The Lady from Mesa"
1968 Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell Fritzie Braddock
Judd, for the Defense Kay Gould
1969 The Big Bounce Joanne
Marooned Celia Pruett
1970 The Landlord Joyce Enders
There Was a Crooked Man... Mrs. Bullard
1971 Columbo Leslie Williams Episode: "Ransom for a Dead Man"
The Neon Ceiling Carrie Miller TV film
The Last Generation archive footage
Plaza Suite Norma Hubley
1972 Portnoy's Complaint Sophie Portnoy
1973 The Shape of Things Performer (and co-director)
1974 The Internecine Project Jean Robertson
1975 Shampoo Felicia Karpf
1975–1976 Fay Fay Stewart Lead role — 10 episodes
1976 Voyage of the Damned Lillian Rosen
1977 Airport '77 Karen Wallace
The Spell Marilyn Matchett
1978 Damien - Omen II Ann Thorn
The Swarm Anne MacGregor
The Mafu Cage Ellen
1979 Backstairs at the White House Grace Coolidge TV miniseries
1979 When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? Clarisse Ethridge
1980 Little Miss Marker The Judge
1981 Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen Mrs. Lupowitz
The Million Dollar Face Evalyna TV film
For Ladies Only Anne Holt TV film
1982 Thou Shalt Not Kill Maxine Lochman TV film
Visiting Hours Deborah Ballin
Bare Essence Ava Marshall TV film
1984 Billions for Boris Sascha Harris
Teachers Dr. Donna Burke
1985 Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret Herself Documentary
1987 The Big Town Ferguson Edwards
1990 She Said No D.A. Doris Cantore TV film
1991 Defending Your Life Lena Foster
1992 Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story Carol Gertz TV film
Earth and the American Dream Narrator
Citizen Cohn Dora Marcus Cohn
1996 It's My Party Amalia Stark
The Substance of Fire Cora Cahn
Under Heat Jane
2000 Dr. T & the Women Dr. Harper
The Amati Girls Aunt Spendora
2001 Mulholland Drive Louise Bonner
2005 The Needs of Kim Stanley Herself
Going Shopping Winnie
2020 Killian & the Comeback Kids Ms. Hunter(Voice)

Director

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Year Production Notes
1973 The Shape of Things TV special
1975 For the Use of the Hall TV film
1976 The Stronger Short film
1980 Tell Me a Riddle Feature film
1981 The Willmar 8 Documentary film
1983 When Women Kill Documentary film (also narrator)
1984 A Matter of Sex TV film
1985 What Sex Am I? Documentary film (also narrator)
ABC Afterschool Special Episode: "Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale"
1986 Nobody's Child TV film
Down and Out in America Documentary film (also narrator)
1989 Battered Documentary film (also narrator)
Staying Together Feature film
No Place Like Home TV film
1992 Women on Trial Documentary film (also narrator)
1994 Seasons of the Heart TV film
Following Her Heart TV film
Reunion TV film
1997 Say It, Fight It, Cure It TV film
Broadway Brawler unfinished film
1999 Confronting the Crisis: Childcare in America TV film
2000 American Masters Episode: "Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light"
The Loretta Claiborne Story TV film
2001 The Gun Deadlock TV film
2004 Biography Episode: "Melanie Griffith"
2000–2004 Intimate Portrait 43 episodes
2005 ... A Father... A Son... Once Upon a Time in Hollywood TV film

Awards and nominations

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Year Award Category Nominated work Results Ref.
1951 Academy Awards Best Supporting Actress Detective Story Nominated [39]
1970 The Landlord Nominated [40]
1975 Shampoo Won [41]
1976 Voyage of the Damned Nominated [42]
1993 CableACE Awards Public Affairs Special or Series Women on Trial Nominated [43]
1952 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Detective Story Won [44]
1986 Directors Guild of America Awards Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Specials Nobody's Child Won [45]
1984 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Director of a Play A Private View Nominated [46]
1951 Golden Globe Awards Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Detective Story Nominated [47]
1967 In the Heat of the Night Nominated
1970 The Landlord Nominated
1975 Shampoo Nominated
1976 Voyage of the Damned Nominated
1997 Hamptons International Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award — Won [48]
2004 New York Women in Film & Television Muse Award — Won [49]
1964 Obie Awards Distinguished Performance by an Actress The Maids Won [50]
1966 Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Drama Peyton Place Won [51]
1969 Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role Judd, for the Defense(Episode: "The Gates of Cerberus" ) Nominated
1971 Columbo(Episode: "Ransom for a Dead Man" ) Nominated
The Neon Ceiling Won
1974 Best Supporting Actress in Comedy-Variety, Variety or Music The Shape of Things Nominated
1976 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series Fay Nominated
1993 Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Special Citizen Cohn Nominated
2021 RiverRun International Film Festival Master of Cinema Award — Won [52]
2015 San Francisco Jewish Film Festival Freedom of Expression Award — Won [53]
1981 Valladolid International Film Festival Golden Spike Tell Me a Riddle Nominated [54]
1988 Women in Film Crystal + Lucy Awards Crystal Award for Advocacy Retrospective — Won [55]

Notes

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  1. ^abcGrant was born on October 31, but disagreement exists between sources over the year. While secondary and tertiary sources put Grant's year of birth between 1925 and 1931, she was almost certainly born in the mid-1920s. Public records indicate she was born in 1925 but a ship manifest and congressional testimony favor 1926. Recent interviews with Grant and her autobiography suggest 1925, 1926 or 1927, although Grant herself is inconsistent on the subject.
    Secondary sources
    • Mid-1920s:TheSan Francisco Chroniclenotes that Grant is "famously inexact" about her age, as a result of being blacklisted.[56]
    • 1925:Encyclopædia Britannicaused to have Grant's date of birth listed as October 31, 1927, but it has since updated the year to 1925.[57]
    • 1925:WTOP-FMwrote that Grant was born in 1925 and would be 90 in October 2015.[58]
    • 1926:In an interview in 2017, theLos Angeles Timesnoted that the actress "turns 91 this year" and that "Grant's legendary caginess about her age has long drawn jokes".[59]
    • 1926–1930, 1931:Who's Who in Americalists 1931 as Grant's birth year, butGreat Jews in the Performing Artsnotes that "Other sources give every year from 1926 through 1930."[60]
    • 1927:While interviewing Grant,Gilbert Gottfriedput her age at 24 at the time of her Oscar nomination and Cannes win. These events occurred in April/May 1952, which would date the year of her birth to 1927 using the October 31 date.[61]
    • 1928, 1929, 1931:Current Biography Yearbookgives the day and month as October 31, but notes different sources give 1928, 1929 and 1931 as the year of birth.[62]
    Primary sources
    • 1925:New York City birth indexes indicate that a Lyova Rosenthal was born in theBronxon October 31, 1925.[63]
    • 1925:United States Public Records (under the name Lee Grant Manoff) give Grant's date of birth as October 31, 1925.[64]
    • 1925:Census records indicate that Grant—under her birth name of Lyova Haskell Rosenthal—was aged 4 at the 1930 census,[65]and 14 at the 1940 census.[66]
    • 1925/1926:In a video interview published byX17 Onlineon April 11, 2017, Grant said she was 90 years old and born in 1925.[67]However, her age would date her year of birth to 1926.
    • 1925/1926:A July 1933 shipping manifest puts Grant's age at 7 years of age, and the year of birth 1926.[68]
    • 1926:In an interview published in September 2023, Grant gave her age as "97 and a half".[69]If the interview occurred shortly before it was published, this would place her date of birth in early 1926.
    • 1926:Grant gave her date of birth as October 31, 1926, in testimony to theHouse Un-American Activities Committee.[70][71]
    • 1927:In her autobiography,I Said Yes to Everything(2014), Grant states she was twenty-four years old when she received her first Oscar nomination at the24th Academy Awards,held in March 1952, and when she won at the1952 Cannes Film Festival(held in April/May 1952).[72]Grant reiterated this claim in an interview withRobert OsborneofTurner Classic Moviesin 2014.[73]

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  60. ^Lyman, Darryl (1999).Great Jews in the Performing Arts.Jonathan David Publishers. p.124.Lee Grant was born in New York City, New York, on October 31, 1931. (The date is so listed in Who's Who in America. Other sources give every year from 1926 through 1930.)
  61. ^Lee Grant (October 2016)."Lee Grant".Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast!(Interview). Interviewed byGilbert Gottfried.11 minutes 41 seconds.RetrievedJanuary 27,2017.Grant: I was nominated and I was given the Best Actress Award in Cannes in 1952; Gottfried: So here you are and I think you were 24 at the time so this is like your career is exploding and then what happens then?
  62. ^Block, Maxine; Rothe, Anna Herthe; Candee, Marjorie Dent; Moritz, Charles (1975).Current Biography Yearbook.H.W. Wilson Company.p.150.
  63. ^"New York, New York, Birth Index, 1910-1965".Ancestry.New York City Department of Health.RetrievedFebruary 2,2018.Note: online record mistranscribed as "21 Oct"; original document states October 31.
  64. ^"United States Public Records, 1970-2009," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJZ3-MSLD:May 23, 2014), Lee Grant Manoff, Residence, Wilmington, Delaware, United States; a third party aggregator of publicly available information.
  65. ^The 1930 census(Source Citation: Year: 1930; Census Place: Manhattan, New York, New York; Roll: 1577; Page: 11B; Enumeration District: 1027; Image: 588.0; FHL microfilm: 2341312. Source Information: Ancestry. 1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry Operations Inc, 2002. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930. T626, 2,667 rolls)gives her age as 4 and 6/12 months(i.e. 4 ½ years old). (NOTE: a) the census always requests the age of the individual being enumerated as of his or herlastbirthday; b) the first name is misspelled, as "Lyniva" ). View original document atFamilySearch
  66. ^The 1940 census(Source Citation: Year: 1940; Census Place: New York, New York, New York; Roll: T627_2671; Page: 9A; Enumeration District: 31-1922. Source Information: Ancestry. 1940 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry Operations, Inc. 2012. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627, 4,643 rolls)gives her age as 14 in April 1940(NOTE: a) the census always requests the age of the individual being enumerated as of his or herlastbirthday; b) the first name is misspelled as "Lyoua" ). View original document atFamilySearchandFamilyTreeNow.
  67. ^Lee Grant (April 11, 2017)."Actress Lee Grant Confesses Her Age And Chats About Blacklisting"(Interview). X17 Online.Archivedfrom the original on December 21, 2021.RetrievedJanuary 9,2020.
  68. ^"New York, New York Passenger and Crew Lists, 1909, 1925-1957," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:24V3-24H:October 2, 2015), Lyova Rosenthal, July 12, 1933; citing Immigration, New York, New York, United States, NARA microfilm publication T715 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
  69. ^Lee Grant (September 27, 2023)."Lee Grant is 97-and-a-half and just as fierce as ever".Forward(Interview). Interviewed by PJ Grisar.RetrievedNovember 3,2023.
  70. ^United States. Congress. House. Un-American Activities (1958).Hearings.Vol. 2.United States Government Publishing Office.p.2596.
  71. ^Vaughn, Robert (1972).Only Victims: A Study of Show Business Blacklisting.Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 227.ISBN9780879100810.RetrievedAugust 13,2016.
  72. ^Grant, Lee (July 8, 2014)."Read an Excerpt From Lee Grant's Memoir About Her Steamy Shampoo Days With Warren Beatty".Vulture.RetrievedJanuary 23,2017.
  73. ^Lee Grant (2014)."Conversation With Lee Grant, A".Interviewed byRobert Osborne.Turner Classic Movies.7 minutes 50 seconds.RetrievedJanuary 27,2017.By that time I was twenty-four when I was nominated for an Academy Award and I won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress... for this little teeny part in 1952

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