Albert Maltz

Albert Maltz, screenwriter

For his script for the 1945 film Pride of the Marines, Maltz was nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay. He won the 1951 Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Drama for his screenplay for Broken Arrow. However, due to his blacklisting at the time, fellow MPAA screenwriter Michael Blankfort put his own name on the script as the only way to get it accepted by any of the Hollywood movie studios. As such, Blankfort was named the winner until things were made right for Maltz, albeit posthumously, in 1997 when the Writers Guild of America unanimously voted to restore screen credit to those who had been blacklisted.

Film Clip: Pride of the Marines

Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970) The Robe (1953) (originally uncredited) Broken Arrow (1950) (originally uncredited) The Naked City (1948) The Red House (1947) Cloak and Dagger (1946) Pride of the Marines (1945) The House I Live In (1945) This Gun for Hire (1942)