AUTOGRAPHS, LETTERS & MANUSCRIPTS AUCTION
By International Autograph Auctions
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Jul 12, 2022
Urbanizacion El Real del Campanario. E-12, Bajo B 29688 Estepona (Malaga). SPAIN, Spain
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Sold for: €220
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TRUMBO DALTON: (1905-1976) American screenwriter of Roman Holiday (1953) and other Hollywood movies, Academy Award winner. Trumbo was one of the Hollywood Ten and refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947 during their investigation of alleged Communist influences in the motion picture industry. Book signed, being a hardback edition of Hollywood on Trial by Gordon Kahn, First Edition published by Boni & Gaer, New York, 1948. Signed by Trumbo in blue ink with his name alone to the front free endpaper and also signed by Adrian Scott (1911-1972) American screenwriter and film producer, one of the Hollywood Ten who was blacklisted by Hollywood movie studio bosses. Further signed by Gordon Kahn (1902-1962) American author and screenwriter who was blacklisted during the McCarthy era. Signed ('Gordon Kahn') in black fountain pen ink to the title page. Bound in grey boards with dark green title to the cover and spine. Lacking the dust jacket. Some light age wear and a few small tears and scuffing to the upper and lower edges of the spine, otherwise about VG
