The most important Oscar winner in 1957 was somebody who didn’t actually exist. Here's why:
The Brave One: Examining the history of blacklisting in Hollywood and what happened at the 1957 awards ceremonyTrumbo was at home with his family, watching the ceremony on TV, when his alter-ego won the award.
“He is a quietly civilized — one almost says courtly — man, with none of the slickness you sometimes find in Hollywood types who have been very successful for a very long time,” Roger EbertLong a political progressive, in 1943, Trumbo joined the Communist Party. “He spent 10 months in federal prison because of a contempt of Congress citation. That came for refusing to answer questions about his political views, and name names of people who were also current or former members of the Communist Party,” Rodman said.
“We all had to learn Spanish,” Mitzi Trumbo recalls. “And I learned it the fastest because I was so young. And one of my most fond memories of that was my father didn't learn it at all. He always said, ‘I spent my whole life learning English, I am not interested in learning another language.’ So I was his little translator, and I've never had so much power over my father in my life.”
Trumbo’s Oscar win, soon an open secret in Hollywood, revealed the industry’s hypocrisy, turning its ludicrous 1957 ban on Communists’ ineligibility for Oscar nominations on its head.
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