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Blacklisted: Written by Dalton Trumbo

Featuring Peter Askin and Christopher Trumbo’s 2007 documentary on Trumbo’s life and work Perhaps no figure represents the indignities suffered by the victims of the Hollywood blacklist more fully than Dalton Trumbo. Having established himself as one of the industry’s most talented screenwriters with his scripts for popular successes like Kitty Foyle and Thirty Seconds over Tokyo , Trumbo found his career abruptly derailed when, in 1947, he refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee regarding his left-wing political beliefs, making him one of the most prominent members of the so-called Hollywood Ten, who were imprisoned and then barred from working within the studio system. For the next decade, Trumbo continued to work secretly using a variety of pseudonyms…

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