Dalton Trumbo: Blacklisted Hollywood Radical

by Larry Ceplair, Christopher Trumbo

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813169736
Publisher:	University Press of Kentucky
Publication date:	04/25/2017
Series:	Screen Classics
Pages:	716
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.70(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Larry Ceplair is the author of The Marxist and the Movies: A Biography of Paul Jarrico and Anti—Communism in Twentieth—Century America: A Critical History. Christopher Trumbo (1940–2011), the son of Dalton and Cleo Trumbo, was a television writer, screenwriter, and author of the play Trumbo: Red, White and Blacklisted.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Under Western Skies
Baking Bread and Writing in Los Angeles
Playing the Studio Game and Organizing Guilds
Marriage and Johhny Got His Gun
From B Films to A Films
Money, Politics, and War
Into the Communist Party
Trumbo's Antifacist Persuasion
The 1947 Hearings of the Committee on Un—American Activities
Blacklisted, Indicted, Convicted
The Time of the Toad
Incarceration and Drift
Oh, Oh Mexico
Negotiating the Black Market, Working with the King Brothers
Once More into the Communist Party
Blacklist and Black—Market Politics
Using and Revealing Robert Rich
Spartacus
Exodus and Credit Announcements
Back on the Screen
Hawaii and The Sandpiper
The Fixer and the Laurel Award
Johnny Got His Gun—The Movie: Preproduction
Johnny Got His Gun—The Movie: Principal Photography and Editing
Johnny Got His Gun—The Movie: The Movie: Distribution and Exhibition
The Final Years
Postmortem