The Evening Star (October 20, 1947)
Screen stars organize own GOP committee
HOLLYWOOD (AP) – A group of film notables today announced that organization of the Hollywood Republican Committee has been completed and will spearhead a drive “to put the entire entertainment business solidly in the Republican column in the 1948 elections.”
Actor George Murphy, president of the Republican Committee, is a former president of the Screen Actors’ Guild.
Other officers of the committee include Robert Montgomery, first vice president; Walt Disney, second vice president, and Directors Herbert Preston, Ida R. Koverman, Leo McCarey, Adolph Menjou, Ginger Rogers, Morrie Ryskind and Lewis Allen Weiss.
The committee said charter members include Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Dennis Morgan, Joel McCrea, Randolph Scott, Dick Powell, Robert Taylor, Barbara Stanwyck, Harold Peary, Mary Pickford, Penny Singleton, Robert Sparks, Harriet and Ozzie Nelson, Jeanette MacDonald, Gene Raymond, Sam Wood, Edward Arnold, Walter Pidgeon and William Bendix.