Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics

Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, and Charlton Heston lead the Hollywood contingent in the March on Washington, August 1963. Martin Luther King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech during the march.
(Source: National Archives)

Charlton Heston, James Baldwin, and Marlon Brando at the March on Washington, August 1963. They participated in a discussion of civil rights in America with Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier and Joseph Mankiewicz at the CBS studios later that day. (Source: National Archives)

Arnold Schwarzenegger, chairman of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, kicks off the “Great American Workout Month” with President George H. W. Bush and Barbara Bush, May 1990. (Source: George Bush Presidential Library and Museum)