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Hollywood Blacklist

James Dalton Trumbo was born on December 1905, the 9, in Colorado and dies on September 1976, the 10 in Los Angeles. He was an American screenwriter, film critic and novelist. He has scripted many films, like Roman Holiday , Exodus , Spartacus and Thiy Seconds Over Tokyo. 

Trumbo begin his professional writing career in the early 1930s, several of his articles and stories were published.

In 1934 Trumbo is hired as managing editor of the Hollywood Spectator. Later he leave the magazine to become a reader in the story department at Warner Bros. studio. 

Trumbo started working in movies in 1937. His anti-war novel Johnny Got His Gun win one of the early National Book Awards: the Most Original Book of 1939.

In the early 1940s, Trumbo become one of Hollywood's highest-paid screenwriters.

Trumbo aligned with the Communist Party in the United States before the 1940s.

After the invasion of the USSR by Germany, Dalton has increasingly contact with the FBI.

In October 1947, the House Un-American Activites Committee (HUAC) begins hearings to determine who are the "deviant" individuals in the Hollywood world. Trumbo is named as one of the Hollywood Ten because he refuses to answer the question "Are you still, or have you been a member of the Communist Party ?" He refuses to give information about his own or any other person's involvement in the Communist Party. The ten people invoke the first amendment to justify their refusal to answer. Dalton was sentenced to a prison setence in 1950 for 11 months.

After completing his sentence, Trumbo move with his family to Mexico City with Hugo Butler (an other screenwriter) and his wife, who had also been blacklisted. In Mexico Trumbo write 30 scripts under pseudonyms.

Ultimately, Dalton help put an end to blacklisted actions and i n 1971, Trumbo direct the film adaptation of his novel Johnny Got His Gun. One of the last films Trumbo write, Executive Action (1973), is based on the Kennedy assassination. In 1975, the Academy officially recognized Trumbo as the winner of the Oscar for The Brave One.

Some years after his death, Trumbo was honored by installation of a statue of him, where he was depicted writing a screenplay in a bathtub.

And A biographical film about Trumbo was released in 2015. 

I think Dalton ended up on the blacklist because he dared to speak. With his books "Johnny Got His Gun", "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" where his evokes the two nucleic bombs which were droped in the Japan, he denouces the violence of the war. I don't really want to read this books because it seems very hard and very sad but I admire Dalton for writing this novels. I think the screenplay writers who were blacklisted were not bad persons. The US committee has excluded them just because they, pearhaps, acted with communism Parti. 

They made good things and wanted to show the reality to the society. The blacklist was a weapon to fight communism.

I don't agree with this list, I think it's unfair to forbid people to express themselves, but .... I don't know what would have happened if the US didn't had fought communism.