Marguerite Roberts
Marguerite Roberts (born September 21, 1905 in Greeley , Colorado , † February 17, 1989 in Santa Barbara , California ) was an American screenwriter .
Life
Marguerite Roberts began her career as a secretary at Fox Film Corporation , which later became 20th Century Fox . There she submitted her first manuscript in 1931. As early as 1939 she had a permanent position as a screenwriter with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer with a weekly salary of 2,500 US dollars.
Robert's protagonists are mostly rough men. She herself explained her preference for the western with her origin. She got the stories about the cowboys and their life with their mother's milk. Her grandfather went west with the covered wagon and got as far as Colorado. There he would have been sheriff "in the wildest days of the States" .
From 1938 until her death, Marguerite Roberts was married to the writer John Sanford , who, like her, was a member of the United States Communist Party . In the McCarthy era , Roberts was blacklisted by the Committee on Un-American Activities in 1951 because she refused to mention the names of communist activists in her testimony. She was banned from working and until 1962 no more script assignments.
Filmography
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literature
- John B. Sanford: A Palace of Silver. A Memoir of Maggie Roberts. Capra, Santa Barbara 2003, ISBN 0972250360 .
Web links
- Marguerite Roberts in the Internet Movie Database (English)
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| SURNAME | Roberts, Marguerite |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 21, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Greeley , Colorado, USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 17, 1989 |
| Place of death | Santa Barbara |