 He resorts to giving the screenplay for "Roman Holiday" to his friend Ian McLellan Hunter, to take credit and a share of the money, and eventually the Academy Award for Best Story.Selling his idyllic lakeside home and moving to a house in the city, he goes to work as a pseudonymous screenwriter for the low-budget King Brothers Productions, also farming out the writing of B-movie screenplays to fellow blacklisted writers.He puts his wife Cleo and teenage children to work as his support staff, adding to domestic conflict.