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Dalton Trumbo ( December 9, 1905 - September 10, 1976) was an American screenwriter and novelist who was probably the most talented member of the Hollywood Ten, one of a group who refused to testify before the 1947 House Un-American Activities Committee about alleged communist involvement. Though only convicted of contempt of Congress, he was blacklisted and in 1950 spent 11 months in prison.

Born in Montrose, Colorado, Trumbo got his start in movies in 1937; by the 1940s he was one of Hollywood's highest paid writers for work on such films as Kitty Foyle (1940), Thirty Seconds over Tokyo (1944), and Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945). After his blacklisting, he wrote 30 scripts under pseudonyms, such as the co-written Gun Crazy (1950) written under the pseudonym Millard Kaufman . He won an Oscar for The Brave One (1956), written under the name Robert RichThere are several entries for people with the name Robert Rich There is an ambient musician by the name Robert Rich Robert Rich is a pen name used by American screenwriter and novelist Dalton Trumbo Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick was a British naval off. In 1960 he received full credit for the motion-picture epics ExodusThis article is about the second book in the Torah. For other uses of the name, see Exodus (disambiguation The name Exodus refers to the book which comes second both in the Torah (the five books of Moses) and also in the Tanakh (the Old Testament of the B and SpartacusSpartacus was a Roman slave who led a large slave uprising in what is now Italy, then the Italian Peninsula, in 73 71 BC. His army of escaped gladiators and slaves defeated several Roman legions in what is known as the Third Servile War''. Other names for much to the chagrin of the film industry, and thereafter on all subsequent scripts, and he was reinstated as a member of the Writers Guild of AmericaAFL-CIO The Writers Guild of America (WGA) is the collective bargaining representative, or labor union, for writers in the motion picture and television industries. As of 2003, they claim more than 8,500 members. It is divided into two separate unions, th.

Trumbo's vivid antiwar novel, Johnny Got His GunJohnny Got His Gun (BooksEnthsiast.com) is a vivid anti- war novel written in 1939 by Dalton Trumbo. In 1971 Trumbo directed and wrote the screenplay for the movie of the same title, based on his book. The title comes from the phrase "Johnny get your gun," a, won a National Book Award (then known as an American Book Sellers Award) in 1939. He filmed the movie of the novel himself in 1971. The inspiration for Johnny Got His Gun came when he read an article about a British officer who was horribly disfigured during World War IWorld War I (also known as the First World War , the Great War the War of the Nations and the "War to End All Wars") was a world conflict occurring from 1914 to 1918. No previous conflict had mobilized so many soldiers, or involved so many in the field of.

His account and analysis of the Smith Act trialsThe Alien Registration Act or Smith Act (18 USC 2385) of 1940 made it illegal for anyone in the United States to advocate overthrowing the government. It also required all non-citizen adult residents to register. Although initially targeting supporters of is entitled The Devil in the Book .

He is often quoted for saying, "I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of."


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