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Marguerite Roberts (September 21, 1905 – February 17, 1989) was an American screenwriter, one of the highest paid in the 1930s. After she and her husband John Sanford refused to testify in 1951 before the House Un-American Activities Committee, she was blacklisted for nine years and unable to get work in Hollywood.
Film critics revisiting the blacklist years have rediscovered The Bribe's screenwriter Marguerite Roberts. Her burgeoning career was cut short in 1951 by HUAC, with her credit removed from MGM's superlative Robert Taylor movie Ivanhoe (1952).
- Robert Z. Leonard, Bert Glazer
- Robert Taylor
Jul 2, 1989 · By Volume 4, a project that began as a wholly individualistic and thoroughly engaging account of the making of a writer, has long since picked up mass and weight from the social and political ...
Sep 26, 2019 · In My Man and I, “it seems that America has fallen into decline and the Stones and Nancy Walkers of America need the redemptive power, the cultural revivification offered by the recent immigrant.”
Investigations by the FBI, the NSA, HUAC, and other agencies both in federal and state governments never produced any evidence of such a relationship. American singer and actor Paul Robeson appeared before the HUAC in 1956, and subsequently was blacklisted for many years.
The year that Soldiers Three was released, Roberts was brought up before HUAC, and her refusal to name names derailed her career for years. She ultimately appreciated the irony when her most celebrated project, True Grit (1969), netted political opposite John Wayne his only performing Oscar®.
Mar 17, 1989 · Marguerite Roberts, who was forced to abandon a promising screenwriting career when she refused to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1951, yet returned to films to...
