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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...
Jun 12, 2024 · Despite this, the Hollywood Ten, including Dalton Trumbo, devised an ingenious method of writing under dummy names. During his blacklisting, Trumbo — via aliases and co-writers — won two Oscars for “Roman Holiday” and “The Brave One.”
Jun 2, 2024 · “Trumbo” is a biographical drama film released in 2015. Directed by Jay Roach, this film tells the story of Dalton Trumbo, a renowned Hollywood screenwriter who was blacklisted during the McCarthy era. The movie is based on the true events surrounding Dalton Trumbo’s life.
Jun 8, 2024 · Written and directed by acclaimed filmmaker Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun was based on Trumbo’s own 1938 novel. Johnny Got His Gun was produced after Trumbo had been blacklisted by Hollywood during the red scare of McCarthyism throughout the 1950s.
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TIL That even though Dalton Trumbo is known to be the creator of 'Roman Holiday' the son of the man who fronted the script (Trumbo was blacklisted) refused to turn over the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay to Trumbo's widow in 1993.
Jun 14, 2024 · Dalton Trumbo was a victim of McCarthyism, a name in the original “Hollywood Blacklist” generated as part of the “Red Scare” in the USA. His career was effectively destroyed. Reading this novel, it is easy to see how his humanist ideas would have been anathema to the powers that be.
Jun 22, 2024 · When the US invasion and occupation of Viet Nam was raging, Donald Sutherland, the Canadian actor, toured American stateside military bases, performing a dramatic reading of a scene from Johnny Got His Gun, a novel by American novelist and screenwriter Dalton Trumbo.
