Marguerite Roberts
Marguerite Roberts | |
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Born | Clarks, Nebraska, U.S. | September 21, 1905
Died | February 17, 1989 Santa Barbara, California, U.S. | (aged 83)
Occupation | Screenwriter |
Years active | 1933–1971 |
Marguerite Roberts (September 21, 1905 – February 17, 1989) was an American screenwriter, one of the highest paid in the 1930s. After she and her husband
Biography
Roberts was born in 1905 in Clarks, Nebraska.[2][3]
In the early 1920s, Roberts and her first husband traveled in the
Roberts was working for
Blacklisted in 1951 for refusing to answer the House Un-American Activities Committee,[4] Roberts had to wait nine years before working again in Hollywood. In 1957 she and Sanford moved to Montecito, California.
In 1962, she was hired by Columbia Pictures to work on Diamond Head (1963). She also wrote the screenplay for True Grit (1969), which earned its actor, John Wayne, his only Oscar. She wrote steadily through the next decade and had many of her films produced.[9]
She died on February 17, 1989, at 83 years old from arteriosclerosis.
Filmography
- 1933 Sailor's Luck
- 1933 Jimmy and Sally
- 1934 Peck's Bad Boy
- 1935 College Scandal
- 1935 Men Without Names
- 1935 The Last Outpost
- 1936 Rose Bowl
- 1936 Forgotten Faces
- 1936 Florida Special
- 1936 Hollywood Boulevard
- 1937 Wild Money (uncredited)
- 1937 Turn Off the Moon
- 1938 Meet the Girls
- 1939 They Shall Have Music (uncredited)
- 1940 Escape
- 1941 Ziegfeld Girl
- 1941 Honky Tonk
- 1942 Somewhere I'll Find You
- 1944 Dragon Seed
- 1946 Undercurrent (uncredited)
- 1947 Desire Me
- 1947 The Sea of Grass
- 1948 If Winter Comes
- 1949 The Bribe
- 1950 Ambush
- 1951 Soldiers Three
- 1952 Ivanhoe (credit restored)
- 1953 The Girl Who Had Everything (uncredited)
- 1962 The Main Attraction (uncredited)
- 1962 Diamond Head
- 1963 Rampage
- 1965 Love Has Many Faces
- 1968 5 Card Stud
- 1969 True Grit
- 1970 Norwood
- 1971 Red Sky at Morning
- 1971 Shoot Out
References
- ^ Baumgold, Julie (November 1, 1996). "The last communist". Esquire. Archived from the original on March 12, 2016. Retrieved May 31, 2015 – via HighBeam Research.
- ^ a b Morgan, Barbara (January 1, 2002). "Roberts, Marguerite (1905–1989)". Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on April 9, 2016. Retrieved May 31, 2015 – via HighBeam Research.
- ISBN 0884963993.
- ^ a b "Filmography of Marguerite Roberts".
- ^ MSN (ed.). "Marguerite Roberts: Overview". Archived from the original on 2011-02-17. Retrieved 2011-01-14.
- ^ a b "Marguerite Roberts". Archived from the original on 2011-10-21.
- ^ "John A. Sanford". HarperCollins.
- ^ Rutten, Tim (March 8, 2003). "Sanford's originality came through to the end". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ "Marguerite Roberts; Writer Blackballed in 1950s Red Hunt". LA Times.
External links
- Marguerite Roberts at IMDb