Marguerite Roberts
Marguerite Roberts ( born September 21, 1905 in Greeley, Colorado; † 17 February 1989) was an American screenwriter.
Life
Marguerite Roberts began her career as a secretary at the Fox Film Corporation, later the 20th Century Fox emerged from the. There, she gave her first manuscript in 1931. Back in 1939, they had at Metro -Goldwyn -Mayer a permanent job as a screenwriter with a weekly salary of $ 2,500.
Roberts protagonists are usually consuming some men. They even declared their preference for the Western with their origin. You've got the stories about the cowboys and their lives with the mother 's milk. Her grandfather had moved by covered wagon to the West and came to Colorado. There he was " in the wildest days of the states " sheriff.
Marguerite Roberts was married from 1938 until her death with the writer John Sanford, of how she was a member of the Communist Party USA. In the McCarthy era Roberts came in 1951 on the blacklist of the Committee on Un-American Activities because she refused to name names in their statement of communist activists. She was banned until 1962 and no more script orders.