Dalton Trumbo

Author : Larry Ceplair
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813146828
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dalton Trumbo written by Larry Ceplair and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2015-01-13 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Dalton Trumbo (1905--1976) is widely recognized for his work as a screenwriter, playwright, and author, but he is also remembered as one of the Hollywood Ten who opposed the House Un-American Activities Committee. Refusing to answer questions about his prior involvement with the Communist Party, Trumbo sacrificed a successful career in Hollywood to stand up for his rights and defend political freedom. In Dalton Trumbo, authors Larry Ceplair and Christopher Trumbo present their extensive research on the famed writer, detailing his work, his membership in the Communist Party, his long campaign against censorship during the domestic cold war, his ten-month prison sentence for contempt of Congress, and his thirteen-year struggle to break the blacklist. The blacklist ended for Trumbo in 1960, when he received screen credits for Exodus and Spartacus. Just before his death, he received a long-delayed Academy Award for The Brave One, and in 1993, he was posthumously given an Academy Award for Roman Holiday (1953). This comprehensive biography provides insights into the many notable people with whom Trumbo worked, including Stanley Kubrick, Otto Preminger, and Kirk Douglas, and offers a fascinating look at the life of one of Hollywood's most prominent screenwriters and his battle against persecution.

Author : Dalton Trumbo
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN 13 : 0806537604
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Johnny Got His Gun written by Dalton Trumbo and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Searing Portrayal Of War That Has Stunned And Galvanized Generations Of Readers An immediate bestseller upon its original publication in 1939, Dalton Trumbo?s stark, profoundly troubling masterpiece about the horrors of World War I brilliantly crystallized the uncompromising brutality of war and became the most influential protest novel of the Vietnam era. Johnny Got His Gun is an undisputed classic of antiwar literature that?s as timely as ever. ?A terrifying book, of an extraordinary emotional intensity.?--The Washington Post "Powerful. . . an eye-opener." --Michael Moore "Mr. Trumbo sets this story down almost without pause or punctuation and with a fury amounting to eloquence."--The New York Times "A book that can never be forgotten by anyone who reads it."--Saturday Review

Author : Bruce Cook
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1455564990
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book TRUMBO written by Bruce Cook and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story that inspired the major motion picture starring Bryan Cranston and Helen Mirren. 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 organized a bakery strike, to bootlegging, to Hollywood, where he was the highest-paid screenwriter when he was blacklisted (and a man with constant money problems), his life rivaled anything he had written.

Author : Dalton Trumbo
Publisher : Echo Point Books & Media
ISBN 13 : 9781635610987
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eclipse written by Dalton Trumbo and published by Echo Point Books & Media. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dalton Trumbo's controversial first novel, Eclipse, explores the rise and fall of wealthy philanthropic merchant John Abbott in Shale City (based on Grand Junction, Colorado). Set during the Great Depression, this scathing satire of morality and politics in small-town America contains an abundance of the wry dialogue that Trumbo became known for.

Author : Bruce Cook
Publisher : Scribner Book Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dalton Trumbo written by Bruce Cook and published by Scribner Book Company. This book was released on 1977 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A biography of the Oscar-winning screenwriter who broke the Hollywood blacklist"--Dust jacket.

Author : Peter Hanson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147661041X
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dalton Trumbo, Hollywood Rebel written by Peter Hanson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a screenwriter, novelist, and political activist, Dalton Trumbo stands among the key American literary figures of the 20th century—he wrote the classic antiwar novel Johnny Got His Gun, and his credits for Spartacus and Exodus broke the anticommunist blacklist that infected the movie industry for more than a decade. By defining connections between Trumbo’s most highly acclaimed films (including Kitty Foyle, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, and Roman Holiday) and his important but lesser-known movies (The Remarkable Andrew, He Ran All the Way, and The Boss), the author identifies how for nearly four decades Trumbo used the archetype of the rebel hero to inject social consciousness into mainstream films. This new critical survey—the first book-length work on Trumbo’s screenwriting career—examines the scores of films on which Trumbo worked and explores the techniques that made him, at the time he was blacklisted in 1947, Hollywood's highest-paid writer. Hanson reveals how Trumbo dealt with major themes including rebellion, radical politics, and individualism—while also detailing lesser-known areas of Trumbo’s screenwriting, such as his troubling portrayal of women, the dichotomy between his proletarian attitude and bourgeois lifestyle, and the almost surreptitious manner in which he included antiestablishment rhetoric in seemingly innocuous scripts. An extensive filmography is included.

Author : Dalton Trumbo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Additional Dialogue; Letters of Dalton Trumbo, 1942-1962 written by Dalton Trumbo and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Night of the Aurochs written by and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1979 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kirk Douglas
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453239375
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Am Spartacus! written by Kirk Douglas and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “lively” memoir by the Hollywood legend about the making of Spartacus, with a foreword by George Clooney (Los Angeles Times). One of the world’s most iconic movie stars, Kirk Douglas has distinguished himself as a producer, philanthropist, and author of ten works of fiction and memoir. Now, more than fifty years after the release of his enduring epic Spartacus, Douglas reveals the riveting drama behind the making of the legendary gladiator film. Douglas began producing the movie in the midst of the politically charged era when Hollywood’s moguls refused to hire anyone accused of Communist sympathies. In a risky move, Douglas chose Dalton Trumbo, a blacklisted screenwriter, to write Spartacus. Trumbo was one of the “Unfriendly Ten,” men who had gone to prison rather than testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee about their political affiliations. Douglas’s source material was already a hot property, as the novel Spartacus was written by Howard Fast while he was in jail for defying HUAC. With the financial future of his young family at stake, Douglas plunged into a tumultuous production both on- and off-screen. As both producer and star of the film, he faced explosive moments with young director Stanley Kubrick, struggles with a leading lady, and negotiations with giant personalities, including Sir Laurence Olivier, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, and Lew Wasserman. Writing from his heart and from his own meticulously researched archives, Kirk Douglas, at ninety-five, looks back at his audacious decisions. He made the most expensive film of its era—but more importantly, his moral courage in giving public credit to Trumbo effectively ended the notorious Hollywood blacklist. A master storyteller, Douglas paints a vivid and often humorous portrait in I Am Spartacus! The book is enhanced by newly discovered period photography of the stars and filmmakers both on and off the set.

Author : Dalton Trumbo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258203481
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Time of the Toad written by Dalton Trumbo and published by . This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: