Stage: Appeared (as "Grazia") in a production of "Death Takes a Holiday". NOTE: Her performance came to the attention of several studios and resulted in her signing a contract.
Hobart believed she was blacklisted because she was a board member of the Actors Lab and was appearing at the same time in a controversial play about miscegenation, "Deep Are the Roots". However, Lee J. Cobb reportedly named her before the HUAC (House Un-American Affairs Committee) as a member of the Communist Party, which resulted in her blacklisting.
"I remember when a casting director simply told me that I had been
blacklisted. I was livid. I also knew that I had done it to myself. I
had spoken out against what I considered unfair treatment of people in
Hollywood.'' - to the Los Angeles Times (1991) on being
blacklisted.
