![]() ![]() Trumbo continued to write screenplays without receiving official credit and eventually helped end the blacklist in the early 1960s. ![]() Trumbo’s involvement with the American Communist Party got him placed on Hollywood’s “blacklist” of banned screenwriters after Trumbo refused to testify in front of Senator Joseph McCarthy’s House Un-American Activities Committee. ![]() While today Trumbo is perhaps most famous as the screenwriter for films like Roman Holiday and Spartacus, he began his career writing for magazines, later publishing his first novel, Eclipse, in 1935. While going to college in Los Angeles, he wrote 88 short stories, six novels, and several movie reviews, all of which were rejected. Like Joe, the protagonist of Trumbo’s anti-war novel Johnny Got His Gun, Trumbo also lost his father at an early age and moved to Los Angeles to work the night shift at a bakery. Dalton Trumbo was born and grew up in Colorado. ![]()
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