MOVIES - May 10, 1993

Oscar Goes Home: Dalton Trumbo’s 1953 Oscar for best motion picture story for “Roman Holiday” will be presented to Trumbo’s widow, Cleo, by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president Robert Rehme at 7:30 tonight, prior to a screening of the film at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater. Trumbo’s friend, fellow screenwriter Ian McClellan Hunter, acted as a front for him as the credited screenwriter for “Roman Holiday” because Trumbo was one of the Hollywood Ten blacklisted during the McCarthy era. Last year, the Writers Guild officially changed the film’s credits to reflect Trumbo’s authorship. The academy will also screen the 1956 Oscar winner “The Brave One,” which Trumbo wrote under the pseudonym of Robert Rich. Trumbo was later acknowledged as the author and received that Academy Award in 1975.