I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture industry. When that day comes, I swear to you that I will never sign a term contract with any major studio.
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I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.
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Birth: | 9th December, 1905 |
Death: | 10th September, 1976 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Novelist, Screenwriter, Writer |
James Dalton Trumbo was an American screenwriter and novelist. As one of the Hollywood Ten, he refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947 during the committee's investigation of Communist influences in the motion picture industry. Trumbo won two Academy Awards while blacklisted; one was originally given to a front writer, and one was awarded to "Robert Rich", Trumbo's pseudonym.
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