Joshua Shelley

A member of The Actors Studio from its inception in 1947,{{cite book|quote=Also [in Lewis' class were] Henry Barnard, Jay Barney, John Becher, Philip Bourneuf, Joan Chandler, Peter Cookson, Stephen Elliott, Robert Emhardt, Joy Geffen, William Hansen, Will Hare, Jane Hoffman, George Keane, Don Keefer, George Matthews, Peggy Meredith, Ty Perry, Margaret Phillips, David Pressman, William Prince, Elliot Reid, Frances Reid, Kurt Richards, Elizabeth Ross, Thelma Schnee, Joshua Shelley, Fred Stewart, John Straub, Michael Strong, John Sylvester, Julie Warren, Mary Welch, Lois Wheeler, and William Woodson.|first=David |last=Garfield|title=A Player's Place: The Story of The Actors Studio|url=https://archive.org/details/playersplacestor00garf|url-access=registration|year=1980|publisher=Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.|location=New York|isbn=0-02-542650-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/playersplacestor00garf/page/52 52]|chapter=Birth of The Actors Studio: 1947-1950}} Shelley worked frequently on stage, both on and off Broadway, during his Hollywood exile. Shelley's onscreen work, both pre- and post-blacklist, was confined primarily to television. Nonetheless, two career highlights remain Shelley's enthusiastically received 1949 feature film debut in City Across the River,Cohen, Harold V.: [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=vNUNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=RWoDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2753,4132887&dq=depressive-maniac+joshua-shelley&hl=en "The New Film: Bad Boys Again In 'City Across River' At Harris"]. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. May 9, 1949.Januzzi, Gene: [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=t5JRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=SmoDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1383,4480444&dq=city-across+joshua-shelley&hl=en "Local Scrapping"]. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. July 20, 1949.Ward, Henry: [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zD4bAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Q00EAAAAIBAJ&pg=6596,4666659&dq=city-across-the-river+joshua-shelley&hl=en "New Faces Show Up In Movies: Unknowns Click With Customers"]. The Pittsburgh Press. August 14, 1949[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GZAyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=2wAGAAAAIBAJ&pg=3084,1372194&dq=city-across+joshua-shelley&hl=en "Oakdale Theater Report: Josh Shelley Scores; Real Broadway Talent"] The Bridgeport Sunday Herald. July 11, 1954. as well as the blacklist-related 1976 film, The Front, notable for reuniting Shelley with several fellow blacklistees, including cast members Zero Mostel, Herschel Bernardi, and Lloyd Gough, screenwriter Walter Bernstein and director Martin Ritt,{{cite book|first=M. Keith|last=Booker|url=https://archive.org/details/fromboxofficetob0000book|url-access=registration|quote=Joshua Shelley blacklist.|title=From Box Office to Ballot Box: The American Political Film|year=2007|publisher=Praeger Publishers|location=Westport, CN|isbn=978-0-275-99122-7|page=[https://archive.org/details/fromboxofficetob0000book/page/82 82]|chapter=Communism, Anticommunism, and the Blacklist}} the latter also a fellow Actors Studio member.{{cite book|first=David |last=Garfield|title=A Player's Place: The Story of The Actors Studio|url=https://archive.org/details/playersplacestor00garf|url-access=registration|year=1980|publisher=Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.|location=New York|isbn=0-02-542650-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/playersplacestor00garf/page/280 280]|chapter=Appendix: Life Members of The Actors Studio as of January 1980}}

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20121022133617/http://www.lortel.org/LLA_archive/index.cfm?search_by=people&first=Joshua&middle=&last=Shelley Joshua Shelley] at the Internet Off-Broadway Database

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