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name: "Marguerite Roberts"
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roles: ["Writer"]
born: "21 September 1905"
died: "17 February 1989"
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average_as: "writer"
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updated: "2026-09-20T02:30:35.090620+00:00"
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# Marguerite Roberts

Writer. Born 21 September 1905 in Greeley, Colorado. Died 17 February 1989.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 21 September 1905, Greeley, Colorado
- **Died:** 17 February 1989
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marguerite_Roberts, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1285817, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0731387/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/39760

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Ivanhoe*](https://film.one/film/ivanhoe.md) (70)

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## Biography

Marguerite Roberts was an American screenwriter. She began her career in Hollywood in the early 1930s after working as a secretary and script reader, and went on to write screenplays for major studios including MGM and Paramount.

In 1951 she and her husband, the writer John Sanford, refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee. She was blacklisted for nine years, during which her credit on *Ivanhoe* (1952) was removed. She returned to work in 1962 and later wrote the screenplays for *5 Card Stud* (1968), *True Grit* (1969) and *Shoot Out* (1971).

Roberts died in 1989.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Ivanhoe* (1952), Fi1m 70, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/ivanhoe.md)

## Complete filmography (32)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Shoot Out* (1971), Screenplay
- *Red Sky at Morning* (1971), Writer
- *Norwood* (1970), Writer
- *True Grit* (1969), Screenplay
- *5 Card Stud* (1968), Screenplay
- *Love Has Many Faces* (1965), Author
- *Rampage* (1963), Screenplay
- *Diamond Head* (1962), Screenplay
- *Ivanhoe* (1952), Screenplay — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/ivanhoe.md)
- *Soldiers Three* (1951), Screenplay
- *Ambush* (1950), Writer
- *The Bribe* (1949), Screenplay
- *If Winter Comes* (1947), Screenplay
- *Desire Me* (1947), Screenplay
- *The Sea of Grass* (1947), Screenplay
- *Dragon Seed* (1944), Writer
- *Somewhere I'll Find You* (1942), Screenplay
- *Honky Tonk* (1941), Screenplay
- *Ziegfeld Girl* (1941), Screenplay
- *Escape* (1940), Screenplay
- *Meet the Girls* (1938), Screenplay
- *Wild Money* (1937), Writer
- *Turn Off the Moon* (1937), Screenplay
- *Rose Bowl* (1936), Screenplay
- *Hollywood Boulevard* (1936), Screenplay
- *Forgotten Faces* (1936), Screenplay
- *Florida Special* (1936), Screenplay
- *Men Without Names* (1935), Story
- *College Scandal* (1935), Screenplay
- *Peck's Bad Boy* (1934), Writer
- *Jimmy and Sally* (1933), Writer
- *Sailor's Luck* (1933), Adaptation

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