Was blacklisted during the 1950s when he was exposed as a Communist
Party member during the House Un-American Activities Committee
hearings.
Marc Lawrence had testified that Stander told him that joining the
Party would make him more attractive to women. In his own HUAC
testimony, Stander denounced Lawrence as a psychopath and presented a
letter that gave Lawrence's mental history and revealed that he had
been hospitalized after a mental breakdown just prior to his HUAC
testimony.