10 Facts About Marguerite Roberts

Marguerite Roberts was an American screenwriter, one of the highest paid in the 1930s.

Marguerite Roberts was hired again in 1962 by Columbia Pictures.

Marguerite Roberts moved to Hollywood and became a secretary for 20th Century Fox in 1926, and sold her first script in 1931.

Marguerite Roberts was a sheriff in the state's wildest days.

Marguerite Roberts was working for Paramount Pictures in 1936, where she met the writer John Sanford.

Marguerite Roberts encouraged him to pursue his independent writing and supported them both by her screenwriting.

Blacklisted in 1951 for refusing to answer the House Un-American Activities Committee, Marguerite Roberts had to wait nine years before working again in Hollywood.

Marguerite Roberts wrote the screenplay for True Grit, which earned its actor, John Wayne, his only Oscar.

Marguerite Roberts wrote steadily through the next decade and had many of her films produced.

Marguerite Roberts died on February 17,1989, at 83 years old from arteriosclerosis.