- Ward Bond, On Dangerous Ground, 1950. Lee J Cobb, Howard Da Silva, Albert Dekker plus the unknowns Bell and Rhys Williams were up for Walter Bent in the snowy mountain thriller – co-directed by Nicholas Ray and a un-credited Ida Lupino…who also played the blind Mary. In all, London’s Lupino helmed 41 films and TV shows during 1949-1968 when Hollywood women were just supposed to pout, pirouette and pucker up. Bell won 151 other screen roles. Ironically (or maybe not so…), Bond was one of the right-winger bigots who helped put Cobb, Da Silva (and so many others) on the ignoble Hollywood blacklist.
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