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Nov 3, 2015 · With the new movie "Trumbo" opening Thursday, Off-Ramp contributor R.H. Greene looks at how Hollywood tried to stand up against the Red-baiting House Un-American Activities Committee — but caved almost immediately. Dalton Trumbo was a Communist.
Nov 29, 2015 · In a magisterial new biography, Dalton Trumbo: Blacklisted Hollywood Radical (University Press of Kentucky), historian Larry Ceplair with co-author the late Christopher Trumbo, Dalton’s son ...
Christopher Trumbo (September 25, 1940 – January 8, 2011) was an American television writer, screenwriter and playwright. Trumbo was considered an expert on the McCarthy-era Hollywood blacklist.
Nov 4, 2015 · Trumbo was publicly given credit for two blockbuster films: Otto Preminger made public that Trumbo wrote the screenplay for the smash hit “Exodus” (1960), and Kirk Douglas publicly announced that Trumbo was the screenwriter of “Spartacus” (1960).
Christopher Trumbo, born in Los Angeles in 1940, observed Dalton Trumbo’s blacklist experiences as a child—in their home and visiting him in jail—and explored them through conversations and correspondence until his father’s death in 1976.
On Thanksgiving Day 1971 Trumbo wrote a long letter to Christopher, explaining why he had been so grumpy the previous evening: “The two-year financial hiatus caused by Johnny has damned near done me in.” He owed approximately $138,000; his largest life insurance policy was gone; he had to sell all but a few hundred shares of his King ...
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Christopher Trumbo. https://doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813146805.003.0013. Published: December 2014. Split View. Cite. Permissions. Share. Abstract. Financially, the Mexican adventure proved unsuccessful, and Trumbo had a very unhappy experience writing a script for Herbert Biberman.
