On Demand movie listings Nov 19, 2009
(Comcast Movies and Events) A solid, elegiac documentary about the Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who was celebrated in the 1930s, blacklisted in the 1940s, and slowly regained his name and respect in the 1960s. While Trumbo s letters are read by actors Michael Douglas, Paul Giamatti, Nathan Lane, Liam Neeson, and David Strathairn, it s the writer s voice that rings loud and clear: cantankerous, eccentric, startlingly lucid. (Boston Globe)
Cleo Trumbo, wife of blacklisted writer Oct 20, 2009
LOS ANGELES - Cleo Trumbo - the widow of Oscar-winning screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who was blacklisted for more than a decade as a member of the Hollywood Ten - died of age-related causes Oct. 9 at home in Los Altos, Calif ... The year after they were married, in 1938, Dalton Trumbo s acclaimed antiwar novel Johnny Got His Gun was published ... The year before Dalton Trumbo died in 1976 at 70, he belatedly accepted the Oscar for best motion picture story for the 1956 film The Brave One, which he... (Boston Globe)
DVD Report: This week's new releases (Sept. 20) Sep 20, 2009
Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is remembered as much for his notorious blacklisting during the HUAC era as for films like The Brave One (for which he won an Oscar writing under a pseudonym). This adaptation of his son s stage play splices home movies, celebrity interviews, and dramatized readings to tell his story. (Boston Globe)
Critic’s corner Sep 2, 2009
This episode of the series looks at Dalton Trumbo (1905-76), a Hollywood screenwriter and novelist who refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947. Trumbo (above) spent 11 months in prison, and proceeded to write under pseudonyms. (Boston Globe)
THIRTEEN's American Masters Traces Journey of Dalton Trumbo from Hollywood Success to Blacklisted Screenwriter to Academy-Award Winner in Trumbo Airing Wednesday, September 2 at 8 p.m. on PBS Aug 20, 2009
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Trumbo is the story of screen writer Dalton Trumbos harrowing descent from Hollywood royalty to blacklisted writer to Academy-Award winner ... At the height of his career, Dalton Trumbo was willing to lose everything for his principles and did, says Susan Lacy, series creator and executive producer of American Masters, a six-time winner of the Emmy Award for Outstanding Primetime Non-Fiction Series. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Still more DVDs you should have seen (but didn't) May 28, 2009
Extras include the doc "Dalton Trumbo: Rebel in Hollywood," commentary tracks from Bottoms and cinematographer Jules Brenner, and the Metallica music video "One" (which incorporates footage from the film). Possibly the cultiest of Canadian eccentric Guy Maddin's deliberately mannered films -- which is really saying something -- gets a meticulous, gorgeous hi-def remastering from Zeitgeist. (Salon)
Science is fiction with this teacher May 1, 2009
Dalton Trumbo wrote such movies as Spartacus and Exodus, and acquired unwanted fame as one of the Hollywood Ten, writers and directors who were blacklisted in the 1950s by Joe McCarthy's anticommunist congressional committee. But Trumbo was also a novelist, and in 1971, in his only stint as a movie director, he filmed his popular 1939 antiwar novel Johnny Got His Gun. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Millard Kaufman; helped create Mr. Magoo Mar 24, 2009
"Early in his Hollywood career, Mr. Kaufman fronted for blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo on the 1950 film-noir crime classic "Gun Crazy. "Mr. Kaufman didn't know Trumbo, but they shared the same agent, George Willner. When Willner asked Mr. Kaufman whether he would be willing to put his name on the script, Mr. Kaufman later recalled, "I had sense enough to say, 'Let me talk it over with my wife. (Boston Globe)
Richardson gets West End tribute Mar 21, 2009
Richardson's uncle, Corin Redgrave, is currently appearing at London's Jermyn Street Theatre in a play based on the writings of blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo. The theatre will join the tribute by dimming its own lights before a performance that the actor is dedicating to his niece's memory. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
At 92, Kirk Douglas launches a one-man show Mar 5, 2009
I hired Dalton Trumbo, who spent a year in jail, because he was blacklisted, and I hired him under the false name of Sam Jackson. Well, I was ashamed of myself for being such a hypocrite. (MSNBC -- News)
