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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.
21 de mar. de 2024 · 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 de abr. de 2023 · Lawson was Oscar-nominated for Best Writing, Original Story for the 1938 Spanish Civil War drama, Blockade. He wrote big screen vehicles for stars such as Henry Fonda, Don Ameche, Paul Muni, Susan Hayward, Sidney Poitier, and Humphry Bogart.
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Playwright and screenwriter John Howard Lawson, the president and organizing force of the Screen Writers’ Guild and acknowledged leader of the Communist Party in Hollywood in the late 1930s, became the first “unfriendly” witness subpoenaed to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) on October 27, 1947.
Here he was in the fall of 1947 not recumbent in his comfortable Southern California home but instead in a forbidding congressional hearing room on Capitol Hill. This year was to prove to be the “driest . . . in the history of Los Angeles”;¹ meanwhile, a steady rain had descended on Washington.
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John Howard Lawson. Writer: Blockade. John Howard Lawson is not the most famous member of the Hollywood 10, those filmmakers who defied the House Committee on Un-American Activities' inquiry into alleged "Communist subversion" in the Hollywood movie industry in 1947, but he was the central figure of the group--the mind if not the heart and soul ...
As the face of Red Hollywood, John Howard Lawson was positioned strategically to be either bathed in warm sunlight or drenched in a cold rain as the political climate changed. It was hard to foresee that brutally cyclonic winds would come sweeping through Hollywood that would disrupt his carefully constructed existence.
