Starting out as a staff writer at RKO, Ian McLellan Hunter worked on the studio's Dr. Christian B-movies before moving up the ladder to better quality projects. In 1953, he won a Best Story Oscar for Roman Holiday -- or did he? Forty years after the award, the truth came out: Hunter had acted as a "front" for blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo. Ironically, Hunter was, himself, hounded out of...
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