Dalton Trumbo
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Dalton Trumbo

Blacklisted Hollywood Radical

  1. 716 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Dalton Trumbo

Blacklisted Hollywood Radical

About this book

James Dalton Trumbo (1905–1976) is widely recognized for his work as a screenwriter, playwright, and author, but he is also remembered as one of the Hollywood Ten who opposed the House Un-American Activities Committee. Refusing to answer questions about his prior involvement with the Communist Party, Trumbo sacrificed a successful career in Hollywood to stand up for his rights and defend political freedom.

In Dalton Trumbo, authors Larry Ceplair and Christopher Trumbo present their extensive research on the famed writer, detailing his work, his membership in the Communist Party, his long campaign against censorship during the domestic cold war, his ten-month prison sentence for contempt of Congress, and his thirteen-year struggle to break the blacklist.

The blacklist ended for Trumbo in 1960, when he received screen credits for Exodus and Spartacus. Just before his death, he received a long-delayed Academy Award for The Brave One, and in 1993, he was posthumously given an Academy Award for Roman Holiday (1953). This comprehensive biography provides insights into the many notable people with whom Trumbo worked, including Stanley Kubrick, Otto Preminger, and Kirk Douglas, and offers a fascinating look at the life of one of Hollywood's most prominent screenwriters and his battle against persecution.

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Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Introduction
  5. 1. Under the Western Skies
  6. 2. Baking Bread and Writing in Los Angeles
  7. 3. Playing the Studio Game and Organizing Guilds
  8. 4. Marriage and Johnny Got His Gun
  9. 5. From B Films to A Films
  10. 6. Money, Politics, and War
  11. 7. Into the Communist Party
  12. 8. Trumbo's Antifascist Persuasion
  13. 9. The 1947 Hearings of the Committee on Un-American Activities
  14. 10. Blacklisted, Indicted, Convicted
  15. 11. The Time of the Toad
  16. 12. Incarceration and Drift
  17. 13. Oh, Oh, Mexico
  18. 14. Negotiating the Black Market, Working with the King Brothers
  19. 15. From the Communist Party to the New Left
  20. 16. Blacklist and Black-Market Politics
  21. 17. Using and Revealing Robert Rich
  22. 18. Spartacus
  23. 19. Exodus and the Credit Announcements
  24. 20. Back on the Screen
  25. 21. Hawaii and The Sandpiper
  26. 22. The Fixer and the Laurel Award
  27. 23. Johnny Got His Gun--The Movie: Preproduction
  28. 24. Johnny Got His Gun--The Movie: Principal Photography and Editing
  29. 25. Johnny Got His Gun--The Movie: Distribution and Exhibition
  30. 26. The Final Years
  31. 27. Postmortem
  32. Acknowledgments
  33. Appendix
  34. Chronology
  35. Notes
  36. Index