Talk:Ring Lardner Jr.

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[edit] Roman Holiday

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According to Hungarian writer Miklos Vamos—who visited Lardner several times before his death—Lardner won an Academy Award for a movie he wrote under a pseudonym. Lardner refused to tell which movie it was, saying that it would be unfair to reveal it because the writer who allowed Lardner, Jr. to use his name as a front (as Lardner's pseudonym) was doing him a big favor at the time. It later was revealed the film was Roman Holiday and the writer was Ian McLellan Hunter, who with Lardner co-wrote the book for Bert Lahr's short-lived 1964 Broadway vehicle Foxy.

NB Wikipedia entries for Dalton Trumbo, Ian McLellan Hunter and, Roman Holiday all state that it was for Dalton Trumbo that Ian McLellan Hunter was "fronting" on the Roman Holiday screenplay. It is known that Hunter fronted for both of them before being blacklisted himself. However, it was Trumbo who was posthumously awarded an Oscar for the screenplay and whose name was digitally added to the credits.

I assume that the other articles are correct - imdb.com entry on the film also shows that Trumbo, not Lardner, wrote the story for said film. Ellsworth 18:13, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

Readded reference to unknown Lardner film. The Roman Holiday speculation was attached by somebody else to this info, so this being incorrect doesn't make the whole paragraph incorrect, so the part which has a source reference shouldn't be removed as well. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.182.18.18 (talk) 15:18, 9 April 2008 (UTC)