Dalton Trumbo Quotes
We are not guaranteed happiness. We are only guaranteed the right to pursue it.
This is a strong belief of Conservatives In America. Many of them erroneously believe that all Liberals advocate the government being responsible for everyone’s happiness. The reason that this quotation is important is not for the statement that has been made thousands of times by others, but because in this case it is made by an extreme Liberal. Trumbo was one of the Liberal victims of McCarthyism, the Red Scare and the Hollywood Blacklist because he refused to testify before the Congressional Committees regarding other people’s political beliefs and affiliations. He has long espoused Liberal causes and was extremely influential writing two Academy Award winning screenplays which were awarded to other screenwriters who were fronting for him as he was Blacklisted as a member of the original “Hollywood 10”.
Dalton Trumbo, 1905-1976, Film Screenwriter, PBS American Masters: Dalton Trumbo, May 25, 2011
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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.
