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14 ago 1977 · John Howard Lawson, the screen writer and one of the “Hollywood Ten” who was blacklisted by the motion‐picture industry and jailed for refusing in 1947 to tell a Congressional committee ...
John Howard Lawson is constructed as the epitome of the humorless, rigid, dogmatic, unsmiling, doctrinaire Communist, mixing ruthlessness promiscuously with insensitivity. He may very well be the most notorious U.S. Communist; therefore, the inexorable gravity of anticommunism may help shed light on why this screenwriter's image has been so tarnished.
Lawson, John Howard Lorenzo Dorelli Commediografo, scrittore e sceneggiatore cinematografico statunitense, nato a New York il 25 settembre 1894 e morto a San Francisco l'11 agosto 1977.
John Howard Lawson Dashboard Dashboard First president and co-founder of the Screen Writers Guild, John Howard Lawson was one of the first screenwriters to write for talkies. He was active from 1928 until 1947, when he became one of the blacklisted “Hollywood Ten,” indicted for contempt of Congress, found guilty, and jailed for one year.
John Howard Lawson (* 25. September 1894 in New York; † 11. August 1977 in San Francisco, Kalifornien) war ein amerikanischer Dramatiker und Drehbuchautor
Blacklisted by the major studios, screenwriters like John Howard Lawson and Dalton Trumbo were forced to sell scripts on the black market under pseudonyms. Lawson’s father had changed his name from Levy to Lawson before John was born in order to minimize his family’s exposure to anti-Jewish discrimination.
Before he attained notoriety as Dean of the Hollywood Ten—the blacklisted screenwriters and directors persecuted because of their varying ties to the Communist Party—John Howard Lawson had become one of the most brilliant, successful, and intellectual screenwriters on the Hollywood scene in the 1930s and 1940s, with several hits to his credit including Blockade, Sahara, and Action in the ...
