March 9, 2005
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Women’s History Month,
continued:
American ActivitiesCol. Mary A. Hallaren,
a much-decorated WW II veteran and
head of the Women’s Army Corps,
U.S. Army Photo
Col. Mary A. Hallaren in 1950.
Happy Year of the Rooster.“The entertaining script was adapted from the novel
by Charles Portis, by well-known, long time writer, Marguerite Roberts
who liked to write scripts for tough men. She wrote scripts for MGM
in the ’30′s, ’40′s, until she was blacklisted in 1952, for not revealing
names to The Committee on Un-American Activities.”