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Ring Lardner

Writer / Novelist / Journalist / Playwright / Humorist / Columnist | * 03/06/1885 († 48, 09/25/1933) | Niles (United States of America (USA))
Ringgold Wilmer Lardner (March 6, 1885 – September 25, 1933) was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical writings on sports, marriage, and the theatre. His contemporaries—Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, and F. Scott Fitzgerald—all professed strong admiration for his writing, and author John O'Hara directly attributed his understanding of dialogue to him. ()
Most frequent genres for this person: Comedies | Drama | Documentaries

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Egomaniacal baseball slugger Elmer Kane is not only good, he enjoys telling everybody how good he is. A professional scout, Bert Wade, takes an interest in Elmer, who in turn takes an interest in Evel ...

Fast Company

Certification unknown

1929 | 1h 10min
Comedy
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Football scout for the Chicago Packers Rusty Walker signs Harry Lynn, a legendary broken-field runner. Harry won't leave his home town without his girlfriend Maizie Williams. He gets tangled up with g ...

The Cowboy Quarterback

Certification unknown

1939 | 56min
Comedy
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Elmer does not want to leave Gentryville, because Nellie is the one that he loves. Even when Mr. Wade of the Chicago Cubs comes to get him, it is only because Nellie spurns him that he goes. As always ...

Elmer, the Great

Certification unknown

1933 | 2.0/5 | 1h 12min
Comedy
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Tom Kelly, a small-town baseball pitcher, is sent to a minor-league team in Florida, and fails to make the team. He starts dabbling in real estate, in the midst of the Florida land boom (in which a lo ...

The New Klondike

NR

1926 | 1h 20min
Romance / Love, Comedy, Drama
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Movies with Ring Lardner as Actor(1)

as Self (uncredited)1929 Glorifying the American Girl

Movies with Ring Lardner as Crew(9)

Writing/Writer1980 The Golden Honeymoon
Writing/Theatre Play1974 June Moon
Writing/Story1970 An Evening with Orson Welles: The Golden Honeymoon
Writing/Original Story1949 Champion
Writing/Novel1948 So This Is New York
Writing/Theatre Play1939 The Cowboy Quarterback
Writing/Writer1935 Alibi Ike
Writing/Screenplay1929 Fast Company
Writing/Writer1926 The New Klondike

TV Shows/Series with Ring Lardner as Crew(2)

Writing/Writer1971 Great Performances
Writing/Original Story1971 Great Performances

Full Name: Ring Ringgold Lardner
Born: Friday, 03/06 1885 (March) in Niles (United States of America (USA))
Died: Monday, 09/25 1933 (September) in East Hampton (aged: 48)
Zodiac sign: Pisces (Chinese zodiac sign: Rooster)
Languages: English (EN)
Educated at: Niles High School
Children: Ring Lardner Jr., John Lardner, David Lardner
Father: Henry Lardner
Mother: Lena Bogardus Phillips Lardner
Other names for Ring Lardner (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Ringgold Wilmer "Ring" Lardner"
"Ringgold Wilmer Lardner"
Ring Lardner frequently works together with these people:
Orson Welles (7x, Actor)
Plácido Domingo (5x, Actor)
Blythe Danner (4x, Actress)
Geraldine Fitzgerald (4x, Actress)
Frederica von Stade (4x, Actress)
Meryl Streep (3x, Actress)
Rue McClanahan (3x, Actress)
Frederick Coffin (3x, Actor)
Renée Fleming (3x, Actress)
Charles Kimbrough (3x, Actor)
John Cullum (3x, Actor)
Dimitri Tiomkin (3x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:568788, Added: 10/13/2018, Last updated: 04/22/2024