A National Series postcard that was printed in Great Britain. It was posted in Winchester using a ½d. stamp on Monday the 13th. February 1911. The card was sent to:
Mr. W. Lessions, Budgetts Farm, Near Winchester.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"Willie how would you like to take this for your wife? Goodbye from Minnie."
An Explosion in Managua
So what else happened on the day that Minnie posted the card to Willie?
Well, on the 13th. February 1911, Nicaragua's President Juan José Estrada declared martial law after an explosion in Managua destroyed a large quantity of arms and ammunition.
Campbell County, Wyoming
Also on that day, Campbell County, Wyoming was established.
Jean Muir
Also the 13th. February 1911 marked the birth of the American actress Jean Muir.
Jean Muir was a stage and film actress and educator. She was the first performer to be blacklisted after her name appeared in the anti-Communist 1950 pamphlet Red Channels.
Jean Muir was born an only child in Suffern, New York, as Jean Muir Fullarton; her father was a certified public accountant, and her mother was a substitute teacher. She attended the Dwight School in Englewood, New Jersey.
Jean's Broadway debut came in The Truth Game (1930) at the age of 19. She was a model for the Walter Thornton Model Agency in New York during the early 1930's.
Jean was signed by Warner Bros. in 1933, and made 14 films in her first three years there. She played opposite several famous actors including Warren William, Paul Muni, Richard Barthelmess and Franchot Tone, but she returned to Broadway in 1937 because she was unsatisfied with the roles.
Jean appeared occasionally in films through 1943. She was also one of the candidates for the role of Melanie in Gone with the Wind.
Muir incurred the disfavor of studio executives because of her involvement in the formation of the Screen Actors Guild, her tendency to question the way the film business operated, and her resistance to posing for publicity photographs.
Blacklisting
In 1950 Muir was named as a Communist sympathizer by the notorious pamphlet Red Channels, and immediately removed from the cast of the television sitcom The Aldrich Family, in which she had been cast as Mrs. Aldrich.
NBC had received between 20 and 30 phone calls protesting against her being in the show. General Foods, the sponsor, said that it would not sponsor programs in which "controversial persons" were featured. Though the company later received thousands of calls protesting against the decision, it was not reversed.
Muir was the first performer to be deprived of employment because of a listing in Red Channels. The apparent cause of the accusation was her six-month membership in the Congress of American Women, which federal authorities considered a subversive group.
Jean Muir - The Later Years
Muir resumed acting in 1958, appearing in an episode of Matinee Theater on NBC-TV.
After teaching drama and directing plays at two community centers in New York, Muir moved to Missouri in 1968 and became the Master Acting Teacher at Stephens College, in addition to directing several productions there.
She also completed her college degree at Stephens in 1977. Reaching Stephens' mandatory retirement age forced her to stop teaching there, and in 1981 she had a one-year appointment to teach at the University of Missouri–Kansas City.
Jean Muir's Personal Life and Death
On the 20th. December 1940, Muir married entertainment attorney, and later television producer, Henry Jaffe in New York. They had three children.
In the mid-1950's Jean reportedly suffered from alcoholism and cirrhosis of the liver.
Jean died in a nursing home in Mesa, Arizona, on the 23rd. July 1996, at the age of 85.
She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6280 Hollywood Blvd.
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