After a certain point it grows to implied as well as articulated threats, and people succumb. My wife did, and she was institutionalized.
But I decided it wasn't worth dying for, and if this gesture was the way of getting out of the penitentiary I'd do it..
If this gesture was the way of getting out of the penitentiary, I'd do it.
The HUAC did a deal with me. I was pretty much worn down. I had no money. I couldn't borrow.
When the facilities of the government of the United States are drawn on an individual, it can be terrifying.
Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or not at all.
Cobb was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor twice: once for On the Waterfront in 1955 and a second time for Brothers Karamazov in 1959.
Cobb's final Broadway appearance was in the 1968 production of King Lear.
Cobb played Joanne Woodward's psychiatrist in The Three Faces of Eve.
During the 1930's Cobb played the role of a patriarch in the original cast of Golden Boy despite being under 30 years of age.
Cobb's father was a newspaper editor.
In 1953, Cobb saved his acting career when he courageously testified in front of the HUAC Committee investigating Communist infiltration and subversion into the entertainment industry. He named 20 people as Communists.
Cobb's final American film was the classic 1973 horror film The Exorcist.
Cobb was of the Jewish religious faith.
Cobb and Marlon Brando had one of movie history's best fight scenes in the 1954 classic film On the Waterfront.
Cobb and daughter Julie guest starred together in an episode of Gunsmoke entitled The Colonel.
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