Marguerite Roberts

About Marguerite Roberts

Birth Day: September 21, 1905
Birth Place: Colorado
Birth Sign: Virgo

Marguerite Roberts Net Worth

Marguerite Roberts net worth and salary: Marguerite Roberts is a Screenwriter who has a net worth of $1.7 Million. Marguerite Roberts was born in in September 21, 1905. Award-winning screenwriter of Western classics who was blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee for refusing to name names.
Marguerite Roberts is a member of Screenwriter

💰Marguerite Roberts Net worth: $1.7 Million

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.