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- Of the many screenplays that he wrote during this post-blacklist era, some highlights are the Douglas western Lonely Are the Brave (1962), the Golden Globe–nominated crime drama The Fixer (1968) and the 1973 prison classic Papillon, starring Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman.
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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).
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.
Jun 17, 2024 · As part of the "Red Scare" that followed, Dalton Trumbo – who went on to write Roman Holiday and Spartacus – was accused of spreading subversive ideas through his films, and imprisoned. In...
Jun 3, 2021 · Trumbo did 11 months in federal prison and, despite an already hugely successful career as a Hollywood screenwriter, was banned from writing for Hollywood. In fact, up until 1945, Trumbo was the highest paid screenwriter in Hollywood.
Jun 17, 2008 · Dalton Trumbo, who wrote dozens of movies and the anti-war novel Johnny Got His Gun, was accused of being tied to the Communist Party in the 1940s, refused to testify before Congress and...
Sep 6, 2024 · He was blacklisted and in 1950 spent 11 months in prison. Trumbo got his start in movies in 1937; by the 1940s he was one of Hollywood’s highest paid writers for work on such films as Kitty Foyle (1940), Thirty Seconds over Tokyo (1944), and Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945).
Nov 6, 2015 · Trumbo and members of the "10" found ways to write movies and get away with it, through some pretty creative methods. A new film by Jay Roach attempts to tell this story, but exactly how...
