'Trumbo' movie: Bryan Cranston as screenwriter Dalton Trumbo and Helen Mirren as gossip columnist Hedda Hopper. 'Trumbo' movie review: Highly entertaining 'history lesson' Full disclosure: on the wall in my study hangs a poster – the iconic photograph of blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, with black-horned rim glasses, handlebar mustache, a smoke dangling from the end of a dramatic cigarette holder. He's sitting – stark naked – in a tub surrounded by his particular writing apparatus. He's looking directly into the camera of the photographer, his daughter Mitzi. Dalton Trumbo's son, Christopher Trumbo, gave me the poster after my interview with him for the release of Peter Askin's 2007 documentary also titled Trumbo. That film combines archival footage, including family movies and photographs, with performances of the senior Trumbo's letters to his family during their many years of turmoil before and through the blacklist, including his time in prison. The letters are read by,...
- 11/7/2015
- by Tim Cogshell
- Alt Film Guide
Los Angeles — After 58 years, another wrong from the Hollywood blacklist era has finally been made right, thanks to a death-bed promise between childhood friends. The Writers Guild of America, West restored legendary writer Dalton Trumbo’s screenplay credit for the 1953 classic film Roman Holiday. The Guild’s Written By magazine reveals the inspiring back story in its January issue. Only a few insiders knew the truth behind Audrey Hepburn’s iconic movie debut on that famous Vespa with Gregory Peck. The scene had initially been imagined by a blacklisted screenwriter working anonymously in self-exile in Mexico. Two who knew were Guild writers Christopher Trumbo and Tim Hunter. They knew because their fathers had co-written Roman Holiday. All their lives, Trumbo Jr. and Hunter Jr. shared much in addition to membership in the Wgaw. Both are sons of famous screenwriters, Dalton Trumbo and Ian McClellan Hunter. Both grew up in the...
- 12/19/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Ironside screenwriter Christopher Trumbo has died after suffering complications from kidney cancer.
The star passed away last Saturday at his home in Ojai, California, his sister Mitzi confirms to the Los Angeles Times. He was 70.
Trumbo, the son of blacklisted Hollywood scriptwriter Dalton Trumbo, is credited with writing screenplays for a variety of hit U.S. TV shows, including 1960s crime drama Ironside, 1970s medical series Quincy, M.E. and popular soap opera Falcon Crest.
His father, Dalton, was famously jailed and blacklisted by the U.S. government after refusing to cooperate with the 1940s investigation into the alleged infiltration of communists in Hollywood by the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Dalton later assumed the pseudonym Robert Rich to write the script for 1956 movie The Brave One, earning him an Oscar the following year.
The star passed away last Saturday at his home in Ojai, California, his sister Mitzi confirms to the Los Angeles Times. He was 70.
Trumbo, the son of blacklisted Hollywood scriptwriter Dalton Trumbo, is credited with writing screenplays for a variety of hit U.S. TV shows, including 1960s crime drama Ironside, 1970s medical series Quincy, M.E. and popular soap opera Falcon Crest.
His father, Dalton, was famously jailed and blacklisted by the U.S. government after refusing to cooperate with the 1940s investigation into the alleged infiltration of communists in Hollywood by the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Dalton later assumed the pseudonym Robert Rich to write the script for 1956 movie The Brave One, earning him an Oscar the following year.
- 1/12/2011
- WENN
Seattle – Dalton Trumbo was one of the biggest names in screenwriting who for the longest time wasn’t allowed to show his name on the screen. He won two Oscars, but wasn’t allowed to step onto the stage.
At the peak of his career in 1947, he was brought before the House Un-American Activities Committee to testify about communists in Hollywood films. Like other screenwriters before the Huac, he refused to answer the questions. Their decision to not name names got them blacklisted in the industry and sent to prison. After nearly a year behind bars, Dalton secretly returned to screenwriting. He used fake names and front writers on various project. It wasn’t till 1960 when his name accompanied Exodus and Spartacus that the blacklist was broken.
Trumbo is a documentary about the writer that was originally a play written by his son Christopher Trumbo. The play had actors reading...
At the peak of his career in 1947, he was brought before the House Un-American Activities Committee to testify about communists in Hollywood films. Like other screenwriters before the Huac, he refused to answer the questions. Their decision to not name names got them blacklisted in the industry and sent to prison. After nearly a year behind bars, Dalton secretly returned to screenwriting. He used fake names and front writers on various project. It wasn’t till 1960 when his name accompanied Exodus and Spartacus that the blacklist was broken.
Trumbo is a documentary about the writer that was originally a play written by his son Christopher Trumbo. The play had actors reading...
- 9/24/2009
- by UncaScroogeMcD
Peter Askin's Trumbo subscribes to the notion, at once novel and forehead-slappingly obvious, that the best way to pay homage to a great man of letters is through his own words. In archival footage, Dalton Trumbo cuts a dashing, unforgettable figure, with his hyper-verbal charm and a walrus mustache that looks both debonair and vaguely comic, but it's his literary voice that dominates the film, through letters performed by a giddy cavalcade of respected character actors and big movie stars. A feature-film adaptation of Christopher Trumbo's play about his father, Trumbo documents with affection and humor Dalton Trumbo's rise to the apex of screenwriting fame, and his subsequent public humiliation and banishment at the hands of the House Un-American Activities Committee and its notorious blacklist. As Trumbo eloquently conveys in letters rife with righteous anger, Huac was itself infinitely more unAmerican and antithetical to the noble values espoused.
- 6/26/2008
- by Nathan Rabin
- avclub.com
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