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John Howard Lawson (September 25, 1894 – August 11, 1977) was an American writer, specializing in plays and screenplays. After starting with plays for theaters in New York City, he worked in Hollywood on writing for films.
John Howard Lawson was a U.S. playwright, screenwriter, and member of the “Hollywood Ten,” who was jailed (1948–49) and blacklisted for his refusal to tell the House Committee on Un-American Activities about his political allegiances.
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13 apr 2023 · Lawson told The New York Times: “I’m much more completely blacklisted than the others. I’m much more notorious and extremely proud of that. It had much to do with the fact that I helped to organize the Guild.”
- Ed Rampell
Commediografo, scrittore e sceneggiatore cinematografico statunitense, nato a New York il 25 settembre 1894 e morto a San Francisco l'11 agosto 1977. Segnalatosi nei primi anni Venti come autore impegnato del teatro statunitense, iniziò a scrivere per il cinema, scontrandosi con i rigidi schemi del film hollywoodiano.
John Howard Lawson was dragged forcibly from the witness chair during his stormy testimony in Washington during the fall of 1947. 1 It was a huge room from which he was shanghaied, perhaps a hundred feet long and fifty feet wide.
By the early 1930s, John Howard Lawson was a bicoastal pioneer, a frequent traveler on trains shuttling between midtown Manhattan and downtown Los Angeles. He was compensated amply and had attained a critical acclaim, being viewed by some as the “hope” of the stage and an important voice of the screen.
19 set 2006 · 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 ...
