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Biography of Dalton Trumbo

Biography of Dalton Trumbo

• Name: James Dalton Trumbo.

• Born: 9 December 1905, Montrose, Colorado, US. .

• Father: Ors Bonum Trumbo.

• Mother: Maud Bonham Trumbo.

• Wife / Husband: Cleo Beth Fincher.

Early life of Dalton Trumbo:

        James Dalton Trumbo was an American screenwriter and novelist who scripted several award-winning 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 1947 during an investigation into the Committee on Communist Influences in the motion picture industry. He, along with other members of the Hollywood Ten and hundreds of other industry professionals, was later blacklisted by that industry.

        His talent as one of the top screenwriters allowed him to continue working under other authors' names or pseudonyms. His unplanned work won two Academy Awards: for Roman Holiday (1953), awarded to a front writer, and for The Brave One (1956), which was awarded the pseudonym of Trumbo.

        When he was given public screen credits for both Exodus and Spartacus in 1960, it marked the beginning of the end of the Hollywood blacklist for Trumbo and other screenwriters. Eventually he was given full credit for all his achievements by the Writers Guild, including six decades of screenwriting work.

        James Dalton Trumbo was born on December 9, 1905 in Montrose, Colorado, the first son of Ors and his wife, Maud, a shoe store clerk. When Trumbo was 3 years old, his family moved to the nearby Grand Junction, where he would spend his youth. While attending high school, he developed an early interest in writing by working as a cube reporter for a local paper.

Trumbo continued his journalism before leaving the state in 1925 to join his family while attending the University of Colorado, who moved to Los Angeles after graduating high school. When his father died the following year, Trumbo joined a bakery to assist his mother and younger sisters. He worked there for nearly 10 years, cranking out countless short stories and novels - none of which he found for a publisher - to attend the University of California and many other odd works.

        Trumbo made his film debut in 1937; By the 1940s he was one of Hollywood's highest paid writers to work on films such as Kitty Foyle (1940), More than Thirty Seconds (1944), and Our Vine Has Tender Grapes (1945). After his blacklisting, he wrote 30 scripts under the pseudonyms.

        He won an Oscar for The Brave One (1956), written by Robert Rich. In 1960 he received full credit for the motion-picture Epics Exodus and Spartacus, and on all subsequent scripts, and was reinstated as a member of the Writers Guild of America. Trumbo's fiery anti-fiction novel, Johnny Got His Gun, won an American Bookseller Award for 1939. He filmed the novel himself in 1971.

        In 1953, he wrote the story for Roman Holiday. It was put forward by his friend, screenwriter Ian McClellan Hunter, who himself later blacklisted. The film won several Academy Awards, including Best Screenplay. However, it would be several years until he was formally accepted as the writer of the film.

        Trumbo's blacklist work included the screenplay of Carnival Story (1954) and The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955). In 1956, using the pseudonym Robert Rich, he wrote the story and screenplay for The Brave One, for which he won another Academy Award. Trumpo starred in seven more films before writing the screenplay for Spartacus (1960). With this film, his name was finally listed in the credits at the insistence of producer and star Kirk Douglas, thus ending the Black List.

        Dalton Trumbo died of a heart attack on September 10, 1976 in California. At his memorial service, Ring Larder Jr., his close friend and fellow Hollywood 10 member gave an entertaining eulogy. "At rare intervals, there appears among us a person whose qualities are so manifest to all, who possess such an ability to relate to every kind of human being, who beats his own ego for the concerns of others. , Who lives his entire life. Life in such harmony with the surrounding community that he reveres and loves everyone he comes in contact with. Dalton Trumbo was not. "