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By: MARILYN BECK; STACY JENEL SMITH Tribune Media Services
Date: 04/04/93
"Homefront" actress Wendy Phillips revisited her past, in a sense, with
production of the series episode that is shown Tuesday (9 p.m. on
Channel 9). The story has Wendy's on-screen spouse, John Slattery,
accused of being a Communist - something that really happened to
her father, Tony Award-winning actor Wendell Phillips, during the
early 1950s Hollywood witch hunts.
"Once he was blacklisted there was nothing for him. His career never
recovered," recalls Wendy, who was born in 1952. She was sent to
live with her grandmother because her parents didn't have the money
to support her. "He had been a member of the Communist Party in
the '40s, for about four weeks," she says.
Phillips' father, who died last September, eventually found happiness
as a teacher. "I felt very close to him while we were shooting this. For
the first time I had the point of view of his contemporaries," Wendy
said.
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