- 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
Using and Revealing Robert Rich
Using and Revealing Robert Rich
- Chapter:
- (p.337) 17 Using and Revealing Robert Rich
- Source:
- Dalton Trumbo
- Author(s):
Larry Ceplair
Christopher Trumbo
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences joined the blacklist enterprise when its governors enacted a bylaw preventing blacklisted people from being nominated for Academy Awards, beginning with Michael Wilson’s script for Friendly Persuasion. A few months later, “Robert Rich” won an Academy Award, and Trumbo, with the help of television reporter Bill Stout, exploited those events. He gave speeches on the subject and wrote articles, including his last great attack on the domestic cold war, which was published in the Nation. The script for The Defiant Ones, cowritten by the blacklisted Ned Young, gave Trumbo new ammunition for his campaign to get the Academy to rescind its bylaw. When it did so, Trumbo announced that he was “Robert Rich.”
Keywords: Dalton Trumbo, Friendly Persuasion, Robert Rich, Bill Stout, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, “Honor Bright, and All that Jazz”, The Defiant Ones
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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
