Marguerite Roberts Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Marguerite Roberts (21 September 1905 –17 February 1989) was an American screenwriter, one of the highest paid in the 1930s. After she and her husband John Sanford refused to testify in 1951 before the House Un-American Activities Committee, she was blacklisted for nine years and unable to get work in Hollywood. She was hired again in 1962 by Columbia Pictures.
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Began her career as a journalist. She was hired in 1927 by Fox as secretary to the executive Winfield Sheehan. Roberts later worked for Paramount and MGM as a screenwriter and became a prominent member of the Screen Writers Guild.
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The article also states that she preferred writing roles for tough men, she started out as a secretary at Fox where she sold her first script in 1931 and by 1939, was a $2,500-a-week contract writer at MGM.
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According to the November, 1999 issue of "Written By", the WGA Newsletter, Marguerite (Maggie) Roberts was blacklisted in 1952 for refusing to name names in her testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
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