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Lester Cole (June 19, 1904 – August 15, 1985) was an American screenwriter. Cole was one of the Hollywood Ten, a group of screenwriters and directors who were cited for contempt of Congress and blacklisted for their refusal to testify regarding their alleged involvement with the Communist Party.
Lester Cole. Writer: The Invisible Man Returns. Screenwriter Lester Cole, who is known in cinema history primarily as a member of the "Hollywood Ten," a group who defied the House Committee on Un-American Activities investigation into their political beliefs who were black-listed by the industry for their defiance, was born on June 19, 1904 in ...
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- June 19, 1904
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- August 15, 1985
Aug 17, 1985 · Lester Cole, an unreconstructed socialist who watched a successful screen-writing career vanish in a political cloud when he became one of the "Hollywood Ten" in the postwar Red-scare era,...
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Aug 18, 1985 · Lester Cole, a screenwriter who was one of the 10 Hollywood figures sent to prison in 1950 for refusing to testify before a House committee investigating Communist influence in the motion-picture...
Nov 16, 2015 · In the eighth grade, Cole’s school principal denounced Lester as a traitor for opposing America’s entry into World War I. He dropped out of high school at age 16 and eventually became a stage...
HOLLYWOOD RED: The Autobiography of Lester Cole. Screenwriter Lester Cole, of the Hollywood Ten, would not appear to have moved an intellectual muscle since he was wowed by Gorky, at age 21 in 1925, and envisioned ""the nobility of fighting for a socialist life for all."".
Aug 9, 2021 · Screenwriter Lester Cole, one of the ”Hollywood 10” who refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee during its anticommunist investigations after World War II, has died,...
