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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]
John Howard Lawson 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.
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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.
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Playwright and screenwriter John Howard Lawson, the president and organizing force of the Screen Writers’ Guild and acknowledged leader of the Communist Party in Hollywood in the late 1930s, became the first “unfriendly” witness subpoenaed to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) on October 27, 1947.
John Howard Lawson was the first president and co-founder of the Screen Writers Guild, and one of the blacklisted “Hollywood Ten.” He wrote for talkies, plays, and film theory books, and was jailed for contempt of Congress in 1947.
John Howard Lawson’s father, Simeon Levy, was the son of Jewish immigrants who arrived in the United States in the 1840s from Poland, driven by an outburst of anti-Semitism. The family settled in Springfield, Massachusetts, where Levy was born in 1852.
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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 whether...
