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"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 s...
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Grand Central Publishing,
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| Publisher Address: | New York ; Boston : |
| Publication Dates: | 2015. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First Grand Central Media tie-in edition. |
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"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 |
| Item Description: | Originally published in hardcover as Dalton Trumbo by Charles Scribner's Sons, 1977. |
| Carrier Form: | xii, 340 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9781455564972 1455564974 |
| Index Number: | PS3539 |
| CLC: | K837.125.6 |
| Call Number: | K837.125.6/T867C |
| 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? |