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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 · All the screenplay drafts list Marguerite [Roberts], and later Millard Kaufman. The film as released only credits Fante and Leonard, most likely because Roberts’s contract, according to Bernstein, “was terminated on Nov 23, 1951.”
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,...
Apr 17, 2024 · In the 1930s, Roberts was one of the most prolific and financially successful screenwriters in Hollywood. Then, she became affiliated with the Communist Party and was forced to appear before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC).
Her $2,500 a week contract with MGM, one of the highest for any screenwriter, male or female, became unraveled after her testimony before HUAC; it took nine years for her to find work again in Hollywood after that.
