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English screenwriter Ian McLellan Hunter (1915 - 1991) is best known for a film that he didn’t actually write. In 1953, he agreed to front for the blacklisted Dalton Trumbo for the screenplay he had written for “Roman Holiday”, a film which Paramount and William Wyler were very keen to make. When it was released to great acclaim and financial success, it was Hunter’s name written on the credits and it was he who picked up the Oscar for Best Original Story (the Academy had no idea they were honouring a blacklistee). Hunter had paid Trumbo some of the salary he had earned for his role in the film. Ironically, Hunter himself was blacklisted a couple of years later. Screenwriters, scenarists or script writers, are authors who write the screenplays from which movies and television programs are made. ...
1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...
1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday. ...
A blacklist is a list or register of people who, for one reason or another, are being denied a particular privilege, service, or mobility. ...
Dalton Trumbo (December 9, 1905 – September 10, 1976) was an American screenwriter and novelist, and a member of the Hollywood Ten, one of group of film professionals who refused to testify before the 1947 House Un-American Activities Committee about alleged communist involvement. ...
Roman Holiday is a 1953 romantic comedy film which tells the story of a young royal princess who runs away during a state visit to Rome and is befriended by a cynical expatriate American reporter who first just wants an exclusive story, but finds himself falling in love with her. ...
Look up Paramount on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Paramount can refer to: Paramount, California, a city in Los Angeles County Paramount Pictures, a motion picture company Paramount Records, a record label United Paramount Network (UPN), a television network in the United States, owned by Viacom Inc. ...
William Wyler (July 1, 1902–July 27, 1981) was a prolific, Oscar-winning motion picture director. ...
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In the 1990s, the Academy sought to rectify some of the mistakes they had made during the Cold War and the Second Red Scare, reinstating Dalton Trumbo being one of them. Trumbo had died in 1976 but his widow was presented with an Oscar in 1993 for “Roman Holiday”. This was actually the second Oscar made for this category win as Hunter’s son, Tim Hunter, a director in his own right, refused to hand over his father’s Oscar. For other uses, please see Cold War (disambiguation). ...
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1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ...
1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...
Tim Hunter (born September 10, 1960 in Calgary, Alberta) is a former NHL player, having played for the San Jose Sharks, Calgary Flames, Quebec Nordiques and Vancouver Canucks during his 16-year career. ...
The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ...
Hunter Sr also fronted for Ring Lardner Jr, collaborating with him under the pseudonym Philip Rush. Ring Lardner, Jr. ...
A pseudonym (Greek pseudo + -onym: false name) is an artificial, fictitious name, also known as an alias, used by an individual as an alternative to a persons true name. ...
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