Word: trumbo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first set of disclosures fell like a bomb on Hollywood. Actor Fredric March was accused of being a Communist; so were Singer Paul Robeson, Writers Dorothy Parker, Donald Ogden Stewart, Ruth McKenney, Albert Maltz, Alvah Bessie, Dalton Trumbo, Millen Brand and Michael Blankfort...
...right of a congressional committee to demand that witnesses say whether they are Communists was upheld this week by the U.S. Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia. The decision approved the contempt convictions of Screen Writers John Howard Lawson and Dalton Trumbo, who had been sentenced to a year in jail and fined $1,000 for refusing to answer the question solely on the ground that the committee had no right...
...Dalton Trumbo and Adrian Scott, screen-writers who were then under indictment for contempt of Congress, were barred from an April 20, 1948 meeting. They were scheduled to talk on civil liberties. A meeting on civil rights, set for January 17, 1949, with Communist Party official Emanuel Blum as speaker, was also not allowed...
...university statement on Trumbo and Scott said that "it is our understanding that their trials (on contempt charges) are scheduled for the near future. It is against university policy to lend itself as a sounding board for attempts at pretrial by defendants whose cases are pending before the courts...
...Biggest Thief in Town (by Dalton Trumbo; produced by Lee Sabinson) sets out to make a gay evening of a ghoulish subject. The scene is an undertaking parlor in a small Colorado town. When the rich man of the town is proclaimed dead, the undertaker, being broke, is at first resigned to the fact that the costly funeral will go to a firm in Denver. Then, being drunk, he blithely kidnaps the corpse. This is merely the start of the festivities, which really get going when it turns out in the second act that the dead man is not quite...