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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. [1] He was the first president of the Writers Guild of America, West after the Screen Writers Guild divided into two ...
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- September 25, 1894, New York, New York, U.S.
- Katharine Drain (1918–1923), Susan Edmond (1925–)
Mar 21, 2024 · John Howard Lawson (born Sept. 25, 1894, New York City—died Aug. 11, 1977, San Francisco) 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. Lawson’s early works, such as ...
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Apr 13, 2023 · John Howard Lawson was a playwright, screenwriter, and labor leader who was blacklisted by HUAC in 1947. His granddaughters share his legacy and his defiant testimony in a film series at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
- Ed Rampell
John Howard Lawson is a writer. He was the first president of the Screen Writers Guild. It has been testified before the Tenney committee of the California legislature that Mr. Lawson was sent to Los Angeles by the Communist Party for the purpose of organizing Communist activities in Hollywood.
Aug 14, 1977 · John Howard Lawson, the screen writer and one of the “Hollywood Ten” who was blacklisted by the motion‐picture industry and jailed for refusing in 1947 to tell a Congressional committee...
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First president and co-founder of the Screen Writers Guild, John Howard Lawson was one of the first screenwriters to write for talkies. He was active from 1928 until 1947, when he became one of the blacklisted “Hollywood Ten,” indicted for contempt of Congress, found guilty, and jailed for one year.
Rain was pouring down relentlessly at one minute after midnight on 9 April 1951, as John Howard Lawson ambled to an automobile that was to whisk him away from his home of recent months—federal prison in Ashland, Kentucky. But he “hardly knew” he was being drenched, so ecstatic was he about leaving.¹.
