<P> Scholars Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner state that Hayden "was widely believed to have drunk himself into a near - suicidal depression decades before his 1986 death". </P> <P> Into the 21st century, the Writers Guild pursued the correction of screen credits from movies of the 1950s and early 1960s to properly reflect the work of blacklisted writers such as Carl Foreman and Hugo Butler . On December 19, 2011, the guild, acting on a request for an investigation made by his dying son Christopher Trumbo, announced that Dalton Trumbo would get full credit for his work on the screenplay for the 1953 romantic comedy Roman Holiday, almost sixty years after the fact . </P> <P> The following ten individuals were cited for contempt of Congress and blacklisted after refusing to answer questions about their alleged involvement with the Communist Party: </P> <Ul> <Li> Alvah Bessie, screenwriter </Li> <Li> Herbert Biberman, screenwriter and director </Li> <Li> Lester Cole, screenwriter </Li> <Li> Edward Dmytryk, director </Li> <Li> Ring Lardner Jr., screenwriter </Li> <Li> John Howard Lawson, screenwriter </Li> <Li> Albert Maltz, screenwriter </Li> <Li> Samuel Ornitz, screenwriter </Li> <Li> Adrian Scott, producer and screenwriter </Li> <Li> Dalton Trumbo, screenwriter </Li> </Ul>

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