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- He left school at 16, eventually becoming first a stage director and then a playwright, moving to Hollywood to work with 17 other writers on one of film’s first all-star extravaganzas, “If I Had a Million,” in 1932.
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Aug 17, 1985 · Aug. 17, 1985 12 AM PT. Times Staff Writer. Lester Cole, an unreconstructed socialist who watched a successful screen-writing career vanish in a political cloud when he became one of the...
- Alvah Bessie
- Herbert J. Biberman
- Ring Lardner Jr.
- Lester Cole
- Edward Dmytryk
- John Howard Lawson
- Albert Maltz
- Samuel Ornitz
- Adrian Scott
- Dalton Trumbo
During the 1930s, writer Alvah Bessie became concerned with the rise of fascism in Europe. In 1938, he volunteered to fight in the Spanish Civil War against General Francisco Franco, a fascist ruler who characterized his opponents as communists. After the civil war, Bessie wrote screenplays for several movies, including the World War II drama Hotel...
Herbert J. Biberman wrote the screenplays for several movies in the 1930s and ’40s, including the anti-Nazi film The Master Race (1944), which he also directed. Biberman refused to testify before HUAC in 1947; and in 1951, his wife, actress Gale Sondergaard, also refusedto cooperate with HUAC, pleading the Fifth Amendment. Both Biberman and Sonderg...
Ring Lardner Jr. was a screenwriter who served on the board of the Screen Writers Guild. He co-wrote the 1942 movie Woman of the Year, the first film in which Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy starred alongside each other. After serving his prison sentence, Lardner found work writing for TV shows and movies under pseudonyms. However, in 1965 Lard...
Lester Cole was a prolific screenwriter who co founded the Screen Writers Guild in 1933 with John Howard Lawson and Samuel Ornitz, two other writers who would later join him in the Hollywood 10. Cole worked on the screenplays for films such as The House of the Seven Gables (1940) starring Vincent Price and Objective, Burma!(1945), for which fellow ...
Edward Dmytryk stands out among the Hollywood 10 for winning an Academy Award in 1948, after he was blacklisted. He won the Oscar for best director for his 1947 film Crossfire, which came out before he refused to testify before HUAC. In addition, Dmytryk stands out among the Hollywood 10 for being the only one to flip. After being blacklisted, Dmyt...
John Howard Lawson cofounded the Screen Writers Guild in 1933 with Lester Cole and Samuel Ornitz, and served as its first president. He was nominated for an Academy Award for best story for Blockade(1938), a movie about a farmer fighting in the Spanish Civil War against the Nationalists, who were allied with fascist General Francisco Franco. After ...
Albert Maltz is known for screenwriting films such as Pride of the Marines (1945), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for best adapted screenplay. After serving his prison sentence, he continued to write some scripts under pseudonyms. In 1970, he received writing credit under his own name for the film Two Mules for Sister Sara, a weste...
Samuel Ornitz cofounded the Screen Writers Guild in 1933 with Lester Cole and John Howard Lawson. He wrote screenplays for several films, including Little Orphan Annie(1938), based on the popular comic strip. Ornitz published a novel, Bride of the Sabbath, while serving his prison sentence in 1951, but he never worked in Hollywood again. He died in...
Adrian Scott produced films such as Crossfire(1947), which was directed by fellow Hollywood 10 member Edward Dmytryk. After his blacklisting, Scott sued RKO Pictures for wrongful dismissal. The case reached the U.S. Supreme Court, which dismissed it in 1957. He found uncredited writing work during the 1950s, and also did some TV writing under the n...
Before his blacklisting, screenwriter Dalton Trumbo was most famous for Kitty Foyle (1940), which earned him an Academy Award nomination, and Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo(1944). But he did some of his most prominent work after his blacklisting. Trumbo was one of the screenwriters behind the 1953 Audrey Hepburn hit Roman Holiday, which won the Academy ...
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Nov 16, 2015 · Lester Cole (1904 – 1985) Image Credit: AP Images The child of Polish immigrants, Cole (ne Cohn) owed his political leanings to his Marxist father, who was a garment union organizer in New York...
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...
Aug 9, 2021 · In the 1960s he went to England and wrote the screenplay for ”Born Free,” the movie version of the book about raising a tame lioness in Kenya. Allen Rivkin, a spokesman for the Writers Guild of...
May 23, 2016 · On November 30, 1958, a live CBS production of Wonderful Town, based on short stories written by then-Communist Ruth McKenney, appeared with the proper writing credit of blacklisted Edward Chodorov, along with his literary partner, Joseph Fields. The following year, actress Betty Hutton insisted that blacklisted composer Jerry Fielding be hired ...
Cole turned to writing and his first screenplay, If I had a Million was filmed in 1932. The following year Cole joined with John Howard Lawson and Samuel Ornitz to establish the Screen Writers and Authors Guild. Cole held left-wing political views and in 1934 joined the American Communist Party.
