- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Dedication
- Introduction
-
1 Under Western Skies -
2 Baking Bread and Writing in Los Angeles -
3 Playing the Studio Game and Organizing Guilds -
4 Marriage and Johnny Got His Gun -
5 From B Films to A Films -
6 Money, Politics, and War -
7 Into the Communist Party -
8 Trumbo’s Antifascist Persuasion -
9 The 1947 Hearings of the Committee on Un-American Activities -
10 Blacklisted, Indicted, Convicted -
11 The Time of the Toad -
12 Incarceration and Drift -
13 Oh, Oh, Mexico -
14 Negotiating the Black Market, Working with the King Brothers -
15 From the Communist Party to the New Left -
16 Blacklist and Black-Market Politics -
17 Using and Revealing Robert Rich -
18 Spartacus -
19 Exodus and the Credit Announcements -
20 Back on the Screen -
21 Hawaii and The Sandpiper -
22 The Fixer and the Laurel Award -
23 Johnny Got His Gun—The Movie -
24 Johnny Got His Gun—The Movie -
25 Johnny Got His Gun—The Movie -
26 The Final Years -
27 Postmortem - Acknowledgments
- Appendix
- Chronology
- Index
Under Western Skies
Under Western Skies
- Chapter:
- (p.11) 1 Under Western Skies
- Source:
- Dalton Trumbo
- Author(s):
Larry Ceplair
Christopher Trumbo
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
This chapter introduces Trumbo’s family and his geographic origins. Readers meet his parents and follow his boyhood adventures and ambitions in Grand Junction, Colorado, including a one-year stay at the University of Colorado. His aspirations to be a writer and the obstacles to becoming one are discussed.
Keywords: Dalton Trumbo, Trumbo family, Tillery family, Grand Junction, CO, University of Colorado
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- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Dedication
- Introduction
-
1 Under Western Skies -
2 Baking Bread and Writing in Los Angeles -
3 Playing the Studio Game and Organizing Guilds -
4 Marriage and Johnny Got His Gun -
5 From B Films to A Films -
6 Money, Politics, and War -
7 Into the Communist Party -
8 Trumbo’s Antifascist Persuasion -
9 The 1947 Hearings of the Committee on Un-American Activities -
10 Blacklisted, Indicted, Convicted -
11 The Time of the Toad -
12 Incarceration and Drift -
13 Oh, Oh, Mexico -
14 Negotiating the Black Market, Working with the King Brothers -
15 From the Communist Party to the New Left -
16 Blacklist and Black-Market Politics -
17 Using and Revealing Robert Rich -
18 Spartacus -
19 Exodus and the Credit Announcements -
20 Back on the Screen -
21 Hawaii and The Sandpiper -
22 The Fixer and the Laurel Award -
23 Johnny Got His Gun—The Movie -
24 Johnny Got His Gun—The Movie -
25 Johnny Got His Gun—The Movie -
26 The Final Years -
27 Postmortem - Acknowledgments
- Appendix
- Chronology
- Index