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- DIED. Morris Carnovsky, 94, actor who triumphed in
- Shakespearean roles after being blacklisted during the 1950s;
- in Eaton, Connecticut. Carnovsky, who began his six-decade film
- and stage career in New York City, where he helped found the
- Group Theater, was named by the House Un-American Activities
- Committee as a member of a communist-front group, but he refused
- to answer questions or name names. He was recruited by John
- Houseman for the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford,
- Connecticut, when he was nearly 60.
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