Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Question: Montrose is the birthplace of what award-winning, famously blacklisted screenwriter?

Answer: Dalton Trumbo, best known for films like Roman Holiday, Spartacus, Exodus, and Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, was born in Montrose in 1905, though he grew up in Grand Junction. As one of the Hollywood Ten, Trumbo was jailed for contempt of Congress and blacklisted from the industry when he refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947.