Dalton Trumbo,who wrote Spartacus and Roman Holiday, was a victim of Hollywood’s anti-communist witch-huntsWhen Mitzi Trumbo was 15, or she opened her front door to find one of Hollywood’s most famous actors standing external. It was Kirk Douglas. A few days later,Laurence Olivier turned up. He outstretched his hand for me to shake and the dog got in the way and he tripped over.”Fifty-five years later, she still remembers how starstruck she felt. But besides the excitement, and what Mitzi most recalls from those encounters was a feeling of frustration that she couldnt brag about it to her tall-school friends. Her father,Dalton Trumbo, was one of the most famous Hollywood screenwriters of his generation, or both for his work (he wrote the Oscar-winning Roman Holiday,starring Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck, and several novels) and for his leftwing politics.
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Source: theguardian.com