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John Howard Lawson

Drehbuchautor / Dramatiker | * 25.09.1894 († 82, 11.08.1977) | New York City, New York (Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika (USA))
John Howard Lawson (* 25. September 1894 in New York; † 11. August 1977 in San Francisco, Kalifornien) war ein amerikanischer Dramatiker und Drehbuchautor. ()

John Howard Lawson (September 25, 1894 – August 11, 1977) was an American writer. He was for several years head of the Hollywood division of the Communist Party USA. He was also the organization's cultural manager and answered directly to V.J. Jerome, the Party's New York-based cultural chief. He was the first president of the Writers Guild of America, West after the Screen Writers Guild divided into two regional organizations. Lawson was one of The Hollywood Ten, the first group of American film industry professionals to be blacklisted during the 1950s McCarthy era. Before going to Hollywood, Lawson wrote several minor pieces before World War I. After the war he wrote a few more pieces and was drawn to European cubist, futurist and constructivist plays. In 1928, Lawson moved to Hollywood where he wrote scripts for films such as The Ship for Shanghai, Bachelor Apartment, and Goodbye Love. In the winter of 1930-1931, it was at this time during the Great Depression that Lawson wrote Success Story. The Theater Guild rejected the script, but Harold Clurman, a reader for them, had recently just formed the Group Theater and needed new scripts. Clurman and Lawson reworked the play during the summer of 1932, and Success Story opened on September 26, 1932 for 121 performances. Lawson would also pen the screenplay based on the play, Success at Any Price in 1934. During the 1930s, leftists accused Lawson of having a lack of ideological and political commitment. New Playwrights Theater associate Mike Gold attacked him in The New Masses on April 10, 1934, calling him a "A Bourgeois Hamlet of Our Time" who wrote adolescent works that lacked moral fiber or clear ideas. Lawson responded a week later in The New Masses in the article "'Inner Conflict' and Proletarian Art" he cited his middle-class childhood as the reason why he could not fully understand the working people. He also recognized that his prosperity and Hollywood connections were suspect in the fight for workers' rights. Due to the criticism, he joined the Communist Party and began a program of educating himself about the proletarian cause. He would soon travel throughout the poverty-stricken South to study bloody labor conflicts in Alabama and Georgia. While in the South, he would submit articles to the Daily Worker, which got him arrested numerous times. These experiences would inspire his next play, Marching Song. It was put on by the radical Theater Union and it opened on February 17, 1937 and ran for sixty-one performances. Lawson, who joined the American Communist Party in 1934, made several films that were political, including Blockade (1938), which starred Henry Fonda. It was a film on the Spanish Civil War for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Story. Lawson also wrote Counter-Attack (1945), a tribute to the Soviet-USA alliance during the Second World War. He also wrote more innocuous films, such as the critically acclaimed Algiers (1938) and the Humphrey Bogart vehicles Sahara and Action in the North Atlantic in 1943.

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Häufigste Genres für diese Person: Dramen | Krieg | Dokumentationen

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Filme mit John Howard Lawson als Schauspieler(4)

als Self (archive footage)2017 Arthur Miller: Writer
als Self - Screenwriter (archive footage)2014 Marlon Brando - Der Harte und der Zarte
als Himself (archive footage)1996 Red Hollywood
als er selbst1950 The Hollywood Ten

Filme mit John Howard Lawson als Crew-Mitglied(22)

Writing/Screenplay1957 The Careless Years
Writing/Writer1951 Cry, the Beloved Country
Writing/Screenplay1947 Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
Writing/Screenplay1945 Counter-Attack
Writing/Screenplay1943 Einsatz im Nordatlantik
Writing/Screenplay1943 Sahara
Writing/Writer1940 Earthbound
Writing/Screenplay1940 Four Sons
Writing/Screenplay1939 Musik fürs Leben
Writing/Writer1938 Blockade
Writing/Screenplay1938 Algiers
Writing/Adaptation1936 Adventure in Manhattan
Writing/Screenplay1935 Party Wire
Writing/Theatre Play1934 Success at Any Price
Writing/Screenplay1934 Success at Any Price
Writing/Writer1933 Good-bye Love
Writing/Writer1931 Bachelor Apartment
Writing/Dialogue1930 Our Blushing Brides
Writing/Writer1930 Our Blushing Brides
Writing/Writer1930 The Sea Bat
Writing/Screenplay1930 The Ship from Shanghai
Writing/Dialogue1929 Dynamit

Vollständiger Name: John Lawson
Geburtsdatum: Dienstag, 25.09. 1894 (September) in New York City, New York (Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika (USA))
Todesdatum: Donnerstag, 11.08. 1977 (August) in San Francisco (im Alter von: 82)
Sternzeichen: Waage (Chinesisches Sternzeichen: Pferd)
Sprachen: Englisch (EN)
Ausgebildet an: Williams College
Arbeitgeber: Stanford University, Loyola Marymount University
Mitglied bei: Hollywood Ten
Andere Namen für John Howard Lawson (Spitznamen, Fremdsprachen etc.):
"Edward Lewis" (Pseudonym)
John Howard Lawson arbeitet häufig zusammen mit diesen Personen:
Zoltan Korda (6x, Crew)
Cedric Gibbons (4x, Crew)
Humphrey Bogart (3x, Schauspieler)
Bess Flowers (3x, Schauspielerin)
Rebecca Miller (3x, Crew)
Stephen Goosson (3x, Crew)
Douglas Shearer (3x, Crew)
Walter Wanger (3x, Crew)
Alfred Newman (3x, Crew)
Bess Meredyth (3x, Crew)
Matthieu Cochin (3x, Crew)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:634534, Hinzugefügt: 24.10.2018, Zuletzt aktualisiert: 14.03.2024