Bibliograph

Trumbo, Bruce Cook ; foreword by John McNamara

Type

Label

Trumbo, Bruce Cook ; foreword by John McNamara

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

platesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Trumbo

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

904812675

Responsibility statement

Bruce Cook ; foreword by John McNamara

Summary

"Dalton Trumbo was the central figure in the "Hollywood Ten," the blacklisted and jailed screenwriters. One of several hundred writers, directors, producers, and actors who were deprived of the opportunity to work in the motion picture industry from 1947 to 1960, he was the first to see his name on the screen again. When that happened, it was Exodus, one of the year's biggest movies. This intriguing biography shows that all his life Trumbo was a radical of the homegrown, independent variety. From his early days in Colorado, where his grandfather was a county sheriff, to Los Angeles, where he organized a bakery strike, to bootlegging, to Hollywood, where he was the highest-paid screenwriter when he was blacklisted (and a man with constant money problems), his life rivaled anything he had written. His credits include Kitty Foyle, The Brave One, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, Spartacus, Lonely are the Brave, and Papillon, and he is the author of a power pacifist novel, Johnny Got His Gun"--Publisher's description

Table Of Contents

The lion in winter -- Colorado -- The Davis Perfection Bakery -- Beginning as a writer -- Cleo and Johnny -- The war years -- The Ten -- The Blacklist begins -- Ten months in Kentucky -- "Engaged in selling" -- Breaking the Blacklist -- In the material world -- Heroes and villains?

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