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<text id=93TT1764>
<title>
May 24, 1993: Honored:Dalton Trumbo
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
May 24, 1993 Kids, Sex & Values
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<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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