Trumbo’s story was told in an excellent film last year, starring Brian Cranston. This public acceptance of him put an end to the blacklist. He could not claim either.Īnd then, in 1960, Kirk Douglas came to him for help fixing the script for Spartacus and Otto Preminger came to him to adapt the unwieldy Exodus into a script. Sterne, Laurence The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Free Stream: Vol 1. During that time, Trumbo had two of his scripts win Oscars. The blacklist continued for more than a decade. Trumbo found a lot of low budget work using pen names. Unable to work under their own name, that is. When he got out, that he and the other writers were blacklisted - unable to work in Hollywood. Trumbo and nine other writers were held in contempt of Congress for not naming names. By 1947, he was the highest paid screenwriter in Hollywood, earning more than $75,000 per film.Īnd then the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) came along. His first filmed script was Road Gang in 1936, it set a tone of interest in politics and social injustice for Trumbo.

His entry to Hollywood was a job as a studio reader at Warner Brothers. He began his career with various journalism positions, while using his free time writing short stories and novels that he couldn’t get published. He attended the University of Colorado and the University of Southern California. Dalton Trumbo was born in Colorado in 1905.

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