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Ringgold Wilmer Lardner Jr. (August 19, 1915 – October 31, 2000) was an American screenwriter. A member of the "Hollywood Ten", he was blacklisted by the Hollywood film studios during the late 1940s and 1950s after his appearance as an "unfriendly" witness before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) leading to Lardner being found ...
Ring Lardner Jr.. Writer: M*A*S*H. The Oscar-winning screenwriter, Ring Lardner, Jr., will always be known for one of two things: that he was the son of one of the greatest humorists American literature has produced, and he was one of the Hollywood 10, the ten film-makers who refused to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) investigating subversion in Hollywood and ...
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Nov 2, 2000 · Ring Lardner Jr., the Academy Award-winning screenwriter who was imprisoned for refusing to answer questions before the House Un-American Activities Committee, has died of cancer. He was 85.
Nov 2, 2000 · Ringgold Wilmer Lardner Jr. was born in Chicago on Aug. 15, 1915, one of four sons born to Ring Lardner and the former Ellis Abbott. The other three sons, James, David and John, also became ...
Nov 1, 2000 · Ring Lardner Jr. shared an Academy Award for best original screenplay with Michael Kanin in 1942 for "Woman of the Year," a comedy that marked the first teaming of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy.
Watch a three-hour interview with Ring Lardner, Jr., a screenwriter and a victim of the Hollywood Blacklist. He talks about his career, his testimony before HUAC, and his Oscar for M*A*S*H.
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Nov 10, 2000 · Ring Lardner Jr. (1915-2000) This article appears in the November 27, 2000 issue . The last chapter in Ring Lardner Jr.’s new memoir, I’d Hate Myself in the Morning (Nation Books), is called ...
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