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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,...
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.
Oct 9, 2020 · John Bright (1908–1989), Kubec Glasmon (1897–1938), and Robert Tasker (1903–1944): Bright claimed to have worked as Ben Hecht’s office boy in Chicago before getting a job as a soda jerk in Glasmon’s drugstore, a popular mob hangout.
Jan 25, 2023 · Paramount Pictures. True Grit screenwriter Marguerite Roberts was a contracted writer for MGM throughout the 1940s. Among her scripts during this period were Ziegfeld Girl , Honky Tonk (both...
It was the first film credit for screenwriter Marguerite Roberts after she was blacklisted for nine years.
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.
According to the November, 1999 issue of "Written By", the WGA Newsletter, Marguerite (Maggie) Roberts was blacklisted in 1952 for refusing to name names in her testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
