Dalton Trumbo Quotes


The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.


Citations

Trumbo, Dalton. Additional Dialogue: Letters of Dalton Trumbo, 1942-1962. Edited by Helen Manfull, M. Evans and Company, 1970.

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Dalton Trumbo
Dalton Trumbo
  • Born: December 9, 1905
  • Died: September 10, 1976
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Screenwriter

James Dalton Trumbo was an American screenwriter and novelist who scripted many award-winning films, including Roman Holiday (1953), Exodus, Spartacus (both 1960), and Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944). One of the Hollywood Ten, he refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947 during the committee's investigation of Communist influences in the motion picture industry.