Kirk Douglas played an instrumental role in helping to end the Hollywood blacklist against suspected communist sympathizers, along with movie director Otto Preminger.
Trumbo was involved in two films that year,"Spartacus," which came out in October, and"Exodus," directed by Preminger and released in December. Preminger told The New York Times in January 1960 that Trumbo was involved in his movie.
"In January, I think, he called my father and said, 'Take a look at The New York Times' — and there it was on the cover," Trumbo's daughter, Mitzi Trumbo, 74, said in a brief phone interview Wednesday from her home in the San Francisco Bay Area. Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo spoke before the House Un-American Activities Committee in Washington on Oct. 28, 1947.The Jan. 20, 1960, article, headlined"Movie Maker Hires Blacklisted Writer," appeared on the front page of The Times, according
. It called Preminger's acknowledgment"the first open defiance by a producer-director of Hollywood's 'blacklist.'"Sign Up
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