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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. She was hired again in 1962 by Columbia Pictures.
Mar 17, 1989 · March 17, 1989 12 AM PT. 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,...
Oct 9, 2020 · Marguerite Roberts (1905–1989): For more than four decades, Roberts was a successful, respected, and well-liked screenwriter, scripting pictures for Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, and Robert Mitchum. Born Maggie Azota Smith in a tarpaper shack in Nebraska (her father took her middle name from a cigar band), she got a job as a ...
Jan 25, 2023 · Roberts was blacklisted in 1951 for refusing to answer the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Oct 28, 2019 · Oscar-winning producer Hal Wallis outbid John Wayne’s Batjac Productions for the film rights to Charles Portis’s 1968 novel True Grit before it was even published. He hired veteran screenwriter Marguerite Roberts to adapt the historical Western for the big screen.
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. She was hired again in 1962 by Columbia Pictures.
Roberts was accused of being a Communist during the dark era of the House Un-American Activities Committee; she was blacklisted and did not work for over a decade. She reemerged in the 1960s, however, to write her most celebrated screenplay, True Grit (1969), a western based on a novel by Charles Portis, which John Wayne called the best script ...
