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Dalton Trumbo - Wikipedia. James Dalton Trumbo (December 9, 1. September 1. 0, 1.
American screenwriter and novelist, who scripted films including Roman Holiday, Exodus, Spartacus, and Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo. One of the Hollywood Ten, he refused to testify before the House Un- American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1. Communist influences in the motion picture industry. He was subsequently blacklisted by that industry. He continued working clandestinely, producing work under other authors' names.
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His uncredited work won two Academy Awards; the one for Roman Holiday (1. The Brave One (1. The public crediting of him as the writer of both Exodus and Spartacus in 1. Hollywood Blacklist.[3] His earlier achievements were eventually credited to him by the Writers Guild, 6.
Early life[edit]Trumbo was born in Montrose, Colorado, the son of Maud (née Tillery) and Orus Bonham Trumbo. His family moved to Grand Junction in 1. He was proud of his paternal immigrant ancestor, a Protestant Swiss man named Jacob Trumbo, who settled in the colony of Virginia in 1.
Trumbo graduated from Grand Junction High School. While still in high school, he worked for Walter Walker as a cub reporter for the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, covering courts, the high school, the mortuary and civic organizations.[8] He attended the University of Colorado at Boulder for two years, working as a reporter for the Boulder Daily Camera and contributing to the campus humor magazine, the yearbook, and the campus newspaper.
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He was also a member of Delta Tau Delta International Fraternity.[citation needed]For nine years after his father died, Trumbo worked the night shift wrapping bread at a Los Angeles bakery, and attended the University of Southern California. At the same time, he wrote movie reviews, 8. Early career[edit]Trumbo began his professional writing career in the early 1. Saturday Evening Post,Mc. Call's Magazine,Vanity Fair, and the Hollywood Spectator.[1.
In 1. 93. 4 Trumbo was hired as managing editor of the Hollywood Spectator. Later he left the magazine to become a reader in the story department at Warner Bros. His first published novel was Eclipse (1. Great Depression. Writing in the social realist style, Trumbo drew on his years in Grand Junction to portray a town and its people.
The book was controversial in his home town, where many people took issue with his fictional portrayal. But years after his death, Trumbo was honored by installation of a statue of him in front of the Avalon Theater on Main Street, where he was depicted writing a screenplay in a bathtub.[1. Trumbo started working in movies in 1. His anti- war novel Johnny Got His Gun won one of the early National Book Awards: the Most Original Book of 1. It was inspired by an article Trumbo had read several years earlier, an account of a hospital visit by the Prince of Wales to a Canadian soldier who had lost all his limbs in World War I.[1.
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During the late 1. Trumbo became one of Hollywood's highest- paid screenwriters, at about $4.
He worked on such films as Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1. Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1. Kitty Foyle (1. 94. Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay. Political advocacy and blacklisting[edit]Trumbo aligned with the Communist Party in the United States before the 1. He was an isolationist. His novel The Remarkable Andrew featured the ghost of President Andrew Jackson appearing to caution the United States against getting involved in World War II.
In a review of the book, Time Magazine wise- cracked, "General Jackson's opinions need surprise no one who has observed George Washington and Abraham Lincoln zealously following the Communist Party Line in recent years".[1. Shortly after the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1.
Trumbo and his publisher decided to suspend reprinting Johnny Got His Gun until the end of the war. During the war, Trumbo received letters from individuals "denouncing Jews" and using Johnny to support their arguments for "an immediate negotiated peace" with Nazi Germany; Trumbo reported these correspondents to the FBI.[1. Trumbo regretted this decision, which he called "foolish". After two FBI agents showed up at his home, he understood that "their interest lay not in the letters but in me".[1. In a 1. 94. 6 article titled "The Russian Menace" published in Rob Wagner's Script Magazine, Trumbo wrote from the perspective of a post- World War II Russian citizen.[1.
He argued that Russians were likely fearful of the mass of U. S. military power that surrounded them, at a time when any sympathetic view toward communist countries was viewed with suspicion.[1. He ended the article by stating, "If I were a Russian.. I would be alarmed, and I would petition my government to take measures at once against what would seem an almost certain blow aimed at my existence.
This is how it must appear in Russia today".[1. He argued that the U. S. was a "menace" to Russia, rather than the more popular American view of Russia as the "red menace".
According to anti- communist author Kenneth Billingsley in 2. Trumbo had written in The Daily Worker that communist influence in Hollywood had prevented films from being made from anti- communist books, such as Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon and The Yogi and the Commissar.[2. On July 2. 9, 1. 94. William R. Wilkerson, publisher and founder of The Hollywood Reporter, published a "Trade. View" column entitled "A Vote For Joe Stalin".
It named Trumbo and several others as Communist sympathizers, the first persons identified on what became known as "Billy's Blacklist".[2. In October 1. 94. House Un- American Activities Committee (HUAC) summoned Trumbo and nine others to testify for their investigation as to whether Communist agents and sympathizers had surreptitiously planted propaganda in U. S. films. The writers refused to give information about their own or any other person's involvement and were convicted for contempt of Congress. They appealed the conviction to the Supreme Court on First Amendment grounds and lost. In 1. 95. 0, Trumbo served eleven months in the federal penitentiary in Ashland, Kentucky. In the 1. 97. 6 documentary Hollywood On Trial, Trumbo said "As far as I was concerned, it was a completely just verdict.
I had contempt for that Congress and have had contempt for several since. And on the basis of guilt or innocence, I could never really complain very much. That this was a crime or misdemeanor was the complaint, my complaint."[2. Meanwhile, the MPAA had issued a statement that Trumbo and his compatriots would not be permitted to work in the industry, unless they disavowed Communism under oath.
After completing his sentence, Trumbo sold his ranch and moved with his family to Mexico City with Hugo Butler and his wife Jean Rouverol, who had also been blacklisted.[1. In Mexico Trumbo wrote 3. B- movie studios such as King Brothers Productions. In the case of Gun Crazy (1.
Mac. Kinlay Kantor, Kantor agreed to be the front for Trumbo's screenplay. Trumbo's role in the screenplay was not revealed until 1.
During this blacklist period, Trumbo also wrote The Brave One (1. King Brothers; it received an Academy Award for Best Story credited to Robert Rich, a name borrowed from a nephew of the producers.
Trumbo recalled earning an average fee of $1,7. None was very good".[1. In 1. 95. 6 he published The Devil in the Book, an analysis of the conviction of 1. California Smith Act defendants.[2. The statute set criminal penalties for advocating the overthrow of the U.
S. government and required all non- citizen adult residents to register with the government. Later career[edit]Gradually the blacklist weakened; with the support of director Otto Preminger, Trumbo was credited for his screenplay for the 1. Exodus, which he adapted from the novel of the same name by Leon Uris. Shortly thereafter, actor Kirk Douglas announced that Trumbo had written the screenplay for Stanley Kubrick's film Spartacus (1.
Douglas.[2. 6] With this action, Douglas helped end the power of the blacklist. Trumbo was reinstated into the Writers Guild of America, West and was credited on all subsequent scripts.[citation needed] Eventually in 2. Guild gave him full credit for the script of Roman Holiday. In 1. 97. 1, Trumbo directed the film adaptation of his novel. Johnny Got His Gun, which starred Timothy Bottoms, Diane Varsi, Jason Robards and Donald Sutherland. One of the last films Trumbo wrote, Executive Action (1.
Kennedy assassination.[2. In 1. 97. 5, the Academy officially recognized Trumbo as the winner of the Oscar for The Brave One and presented him with a statuette.[citation needed]Personal life[edit]In 1. Trumbo married Cleo Fincher.
She was born in Fresno on July 1. Los Angeles. Cleo Trumbo died of natural causes at the age of 9. October 9, 2. 00. Los Altos. At the time she was living with her younger daughter Mitzi.[2. The Trumbos had three children: the filmmaker and screenwriter Christopher Trumbo, who became an expert on the Hollywood blacklist; Melissa, known as Mitzi, a photographer; and Nikola Trumbo, a psychotherapist.[3.
His daughter Mitzi dated comedian Steve Martin when they were both in their early 2. Martin's 2. 00. 7 book Born Standing Up. Martin wrote of her, "Mitzi became my official photographer, and she snapped dozens of rolls of film, all to find the perfect publicity photo."[3. Death and legacy[edit]Trumbo died in Los Angeles of a heart attack at the age of 7. September 1. 0, 1. He donated his body to scientific research.[3. In 1. 99. 3, Trumbo was posthumously awarded the Academy Award for writing Roman Holiday (1.
The screen credit and award were previously given to Ian Mc. Lellan Hunter, who had been a front for Trumbo.[3. A new statue was made for this award because Hunter's son refused to hand over the one his father had received.[3.