Originally Posted by dee123:
“From CDAN:
Old Hollywood Blind Item
This stand up comedian was considered one of the founders of stand up comedy. He was also perhaps the most racist person to ever achieve A list status.”
Think I've got it. The comedian Frank Fay was A list back in the day but he's not remembered as well as some of his contemporaries because he was such a scumbag!
From Wikipedia:
"In January 1946, just months after Nazi Germany had been defeated, a rally of ten thousand white supremacists gathered at Madison Square Garden for a pro-Fascist event called "The Friends of Frank Fay."
"Although very talented, Fay was disliked by most of the people he worked with because of his enormous ego. Actor Robert Wagner wrote that Fay was "...one of the most dreadful men in the history of show business. Fay was a drunk, an anti-Semite, and a wife-beater, and Barbara [Stanwyck] had had to endure all of that",[5] while according to actor and comedian Milton Berle “Fay’s friends could be counted on the missing arm of a one-armed man.” Berle, who was Jewish, claimed to have once hit Fay in the face with a stage brace after Fay, on seeing Berle watching his act from offstage, called out, "Get that little Jew bastard out of the wings"."