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dec 09 Learn More Dalton Trumbo Born
Novelist and screenwriter Dalton Trumbo was born on this day in 1905. The American Communist Party member nabbed two Academy Awards while on Hollwyood's blacklist. He also had a pretty unorthodox writing regimen: the six-pack-a-day smoker preferred to write in the bathtub with his pet parrot, a gift from Kirk Douglas, perched on his shoulder. And you thought Twitter was distracting…
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