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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 films, and imprisoned. In ...
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 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 17, 2024 · It centered on a slave revolt led by a gladiator and was widely and reasonably interpreted as an allegory attacking the anti-communist repression of the Cold War period led by Senator Joseph McCarthy. The script was the first screen credit in some ten years for Dalton Trumbo, a blacklisted novelist and once highly paid screenwriter.
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 1960, he told the BBC about his experiences.
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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6 days ago · Along with Trumbo, the credited writers were Michael Wilson, Irene Kamp, and Louis Kamp. The film is remembered mostly for the Oscar-winning song 'The Shadow of Your Smile', and for helping introduce actor Charles Bronson, who had a minor role in the film as a sculptor.
