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- <title>
- May 24, 1993: Honored:Dalton Trumbo
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- May 24, 1993 Kids, Sex & Values
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 29
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- <p> HONORED. DALTON TRUMBO, screenwriter, with an Oscar for the
- screenplay of Roman Holiday, 40 years after its 1953 release
- and 16 years after his death. Trumbo was among the highest-paid
- screenwriters in Hollywood until his name disappeared from the
- screen for years as a result of Hollywood's McCarthy-era blacklist.
- The House Un-American Activities Committee accused Trumbo of
- membership in the Communist Party (an affiliation he acknowledged
- years later), and he went to prison in 1950 rather than cooperate
- with his inquisitors. Unable to use his own name, he recruited
- a series of "fronts," and it was during his underground years,
- ironically, that he produced his best scripts--the most famous
- being Roman Holiday, the tale of a princess passing as a commoner.
- Trumbo enlisted his friend Ian McLellan Hunter to pose as the
- creator of the film, but now an Academy Award has gone to the
- real author. In 1975 Trumbo received an Oscar for a blacklist-era
- work, The Brave One. That time, he was still alive to enjoy
- it.
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