Dalton Trumbo was a talented Hollywood screenwriter, at one time, the highest paid in his industry. Despite his love for big money contracts, he was also a member of the Communist Party in the United States, something LA Times gossip columnist Hedda Hopper would point out in her crusade against this increasing threat in the country, starting with those who worked in the entertainment industry of the era. Forced to testify, but refusing to answer direct questions to the House Un-American Activites Committee, Trumbo and other members of the then-called Hollywood Ten would serve jail time for contempt, and then het black-listed in Hollywood, which meant no one would hire his screenwriting services. At least not directly. Under false names, Trumbo would write many screenplays, mostly B-movies for low-budget schlock-meisters, the King Brothers, but also including two Oscar winners for Roman Holiday and The Brave One -- awards he could not accept. He wrote the screenplay for Spartacus, which, along with work for Otto Preminger's Exodus, would eventually lead to the restoration of Trumbo's name in Hollywood as a screenwriter of renown.
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