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Peggy Cummins in Gun
Crazy (1950; dir. Joseph
H. Lewis) |
Screenwriter and author
Dalton Trumbo, a victim of the Hollywood Blacklist, was born today in Montrose, CO, in 1905. He won Oscars for
Roman Holiday and
The Brave One, and the National Book Award for the war protest novel
Johnny Got His Gun. He was the screenwriter on such notable films as
Kitty Foyle, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, Exodus, and
Spartacus. His crime-related work includes
Fugitives for a Night (1938; studio employee is accused of murder),
Half a Sinner (1940; schoolteacher gets mixed up in murder),
Jealousy (1945; wife is suspected in husband's murder), and
Gun Crazy (1950, cowritten with
MacKinlay Kantor; a couple embarks on a robbery spree). He died in 1976.
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