The final victim of the blacklist : John Howard Lawson, dean of the Hollywood Ten / Gerald Horne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Horne, Gerald.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lawson, John Howard, 1894-1977.

Lawson, John Howard.

Dramatists, American--20th century--Biography.

Dramatists, American.

Screenwriters--United States--Biography.

Screenwriters.

United States.

Blacklisting of authors--United States.

Blacklisting of authors.

Communism and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Communism and literature.

History.

Theater--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Theater.

New York (State)--New York.

Motion picture industry--California--Los Angeles--History.

Motion picture industry.

California--Los Angeles.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 360 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2006]

Summary:

Before he attained notoriety as Dean of the Hollywood Ten-the screenwriters and directors who were blacklisted because of their varying ties to the Communist Party-John Howard Lawson had become one of the most brilliant, successful, and intellectual screenwriters on the Hollywood scene. In the 1930s and 1940s he had several hits to his credit, including Blockade, Sahara, and Action in the North Atlantic. But after his infamous, almost violent, 1947 appearance before the House Un-American Activities Committee, Lawson spent time in prison and his lucrative career was effectively over. Studded with anecdotes and based on previously untapped archives, this first biography of Lawson brings his era alive and features many of his prominent friends and associates-John Dos Passos, Theodore Dreiser, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charles Chaplin, Gene Kelly, Edmund Wilson, Ernest Hemingway, Humphrey Bogart, Dalton Trumbo, Ring Lardner Jr., and many others. In vivid, marvelously detailed prose, The Final Victim of the Blacklist restores this major figure to his rightful place in history and recounts one of the most fascinating episodes in twentieth-century cinema and politics.

Contents:

1 Beginnings 14

2 Toward Commitment 35

3 Hollywood 50

4 From Hollywood to Broadway 66

5 Commitment 80

6 Theory and Practice 98

7 Struggle 116

8 Fighting-and Writing 132

9 Writing-and Fighting 149

10 Red Scare Rising 166

11 Inquisition 184

12 Jailed for Ideas 202

13 "Blacklisted" 222

14 The Fall of Red Hollywood 241.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-345) and index.

ISBN:

0520243722

0520248600

OCLC:

64770823

Publisher Number:

9780520243729

9780520248601

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