Dalton Trumbo Biography

Fast Facts

• Was one of Hollywood's highest-paid screenwriters throughout most of the 1940s
• Was blacklisted after refusing to testify in 1947 about communism in the film industry
• Wrote scripts under pseudonyms while blacklisted, two of which won Oscars that the blacklisted Trumbo could not accept
• One he received decades later, and the other was presented to his wife after his death
• Is the subject of the documentary film Trumbo, which is based on a play by his son, Christopher
• Is depicted writing in the bathtub in a sculpture erected in his hometown of Grand Junction, CO
• The bathtub was his favorite writing spot