She wrote the screenplay for True Grit, which earned her an Academy Award nomination. Her other credits include The Last Wagon, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and The Hanging Tree. Her estimated salary is unknown.
Marguerite Roberts was an award-winning screenwriter born in 1905 who was blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee. She wrote the screenplay for True Grit, which earned her an Academy Award nomination, as well as The Last Wagon, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and The Hanging Tree. Roberts had a net worth of $1.7 Million, though her estimated salary is unknown.
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Age, Biography and Wiki
💰 Net worth: $1.7 Million (2024)
About
Award-winning screenwriter of Western classics who was blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee for refusing to name names.
Before Fame
She moved to Hollywood to work as a secretary at Fox, at the same time pitching her scripts. Her first sold in 1931.
Trivia
Her $2,500 a week contract with MGM, one of the highest for any screenwriter, male or female, became unraveled after her testimony before HUAC; it took nine years for her to find work again in Hollywood after that.
Family Life
She was married to the author John Sanford, a member of the American Communist Party.
Associated With
After being re-hired by Columbia Pictures in the 1960s, she wrote the screen for the 1969 film True Grit, which won John Wayne his only Academy Award.
