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James Dalton Trumbo (December 9, 1905 – September 10, 1976) was an American screenwriter who scripted many award-winning films, including Roman Holiday (1953), Exodus, Spartacus (both 1960), and Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944).
Jun 17, 2024 · He was a mainstream Hollywood screenwriter who was accused of spreading subversive ideas through his films, and imprisoned – yet Dalton Trumbo fought back, going on to win two Oscars.
Apr 2, 2014 · Dalton Trumbo was an award-winning author and screenwriter who was blacklisted from the film industry from 1947 until the early 1960s due to his Communist ties.
Apr 5, 2016 · Screenwriter John McNamara on why he chose to tell the story of blacklisted Hollywood writer Dalton Trumbo, and how after 25 years in the movie industry he thought it would be an impossible film to make. Dalton Trumbo, played here by Bryan Cranston, secretly wrote screen hits including Roman Holiday.
- John McNamara
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Nov 6, 2015 · In jail and out, in Hollywood and during a self-imposed exile in Mexico, Dalton Trumbo wrote some 30 movies under assorted pseudonyms.
Aug 20, 2018 · It was a question asked of dozens of people brought before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in the 1940s and 1950s, and in October of 1947, it was put to Dalton Trumbo, one of Hollywood’s best-known and highest-paid screenwriters. Trumbo and nine others—dubbed the ‘Hollywood Ten’—refused to answer the question on ...
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Dec 14, 2012 · After several false starts, he’d gotten a $75-a-week job in one of the screenplay factories all the studios maintained in the 1930s. Most of the writers sank; some swam. By the 1940s, after movies like “Kitty Foyle” and “30 Seconds Over Tokyo,” Trumbo was earning $75,600 a script.
