to a wider audience. In 1938, Flanagan was called to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee under suspicion of supporting a socialist agenda and subverting American values through her work at the Federal Theatre Project. After just four years, the Federal Theatre Project was shut down, and Flanagan returned to Vassar. Smith College In 1942, Flanagan accepted Smith College's offer to serve as Dean of the College, and as a professor in the Theater Department. She resigned from her position as Dean in 1946 so that she could focus on the Theater Department, of which she was the chair of the department. She also wrote and directed productions put on at the college and director of productions put on at the college. She retired from Smith in 1955. In 1962, the Studio Theater in Smith's new Center for the Performing Arts was named in her honor. Other details Flanagan's first husband, Murray Flanagan, died in 1918 from tuberculosis, they had two sons. In 1934, she married Philip Davis, a professor of Greek at Vassar. In Tim Robbins' Cradle Will Rock (1999), Cherry Jones played Hallie Flanagan. She is also a minor character in the novel The Group, by Vassar grad Mary McCarthy, being mentioned in the first chapter and appearing briefly in the last chapter. Flanagan went on leave from Smith in 1953 and officially retired to Poughkeepsie in 1955. She was recognized many times for her contributions to modern theater, including an honorary degree from Williams College in 1941 and the first National Theater Conference Citation award in 1968. Flanagan spent the last few years of her life in nursing homes and died on July 23, 1969 in Old Tappan, N.J. See also Can You Hear Their Voices? Living Newspaper Vassar College Federal Theatre Project Works Progress Administration References Further reading Bentley, Joanne. Hallie Flanagan: A Life in the American Theatre (Alfred A. Knopf, 1988). online Mathews, Jane DeHart. Federal Theatre, 1935-1939: Plays, Relief, and Politics (Princeton UP 1967) online Moore, Angela Kristine. "Democratizing cultural production: a theory cultivated with Hallie Flanagan Davis." (PhD dissertation, Texas Christian University 2018) online. Osborne, Elizabeth A. "A Democratic Legacy: Hallie Flanagan and the Vassar Experimental Theatre." in Women, Collective Creation, and Devised Performance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) pp. 67–80. Walker, Suzanne. "'Now I Know Love': Hallie Flanagan and Euripides' 'Hippolytus.'" Classical World (2014): 97-116. online Williams, Kristin S., and Albert J. Mills.