Ringgold Wilmer Lardner Jr. (August 19, 1915 – October 31, 2000) was an American screenwriter. A member of the "Hollywood Ten", he was blacklisted by the...
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distinguished military family. Lardner never liked his given name and abbreviated it to Ring, although he named one of his sons Ringgold Jr. In childhood he wore...
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ten men—Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, Lester Cole, Edward Dmytryk, Ring Lardner Jr., John Howard Lawson, Albert Maltz, Samuel Ornitz, Adrian Scott and...
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M*A*S*H (film) (category Films with screenplays by Ring Lardner Jr.)
American black comedy war film directed by Robert Altman and written by Ring Lardner Jr., based on Richard Hooker's 1968 novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army...
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1971), English artist Ring Lardner (1885–1933), American writer Ring Lardner Jr. (1915–2000), American film screenwriter Lardner, Victoria, a locality...
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by James H. Street, and an array of additional writers, including Ring Lardner Jr., Budd Schulberg, Dorothy Parker, Sidney Howard, Moss Hart, George...
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Woman of the Year (category Films with screenplays by Ring Lardner Jr.)
starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. The film was written by Ring Lardner Jr. and Michael Kanin (with uncredited work on the rewritten ending by...
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careers, Budd Schulberg (then a script reader for David O. Selznick) and Ring Lardner, Jr. (who was working in Selznick's publicity department) were assigned...
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Hollywood socialist organizing and later in life was linked to the writers Ring Lardner, Jr. and Ernest Hemingway. She died from burns she suffered after inadvertently...
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assignment in a master class led by the screenwriting giants Waldo Salt and Ring Lardner Jr. The student screenplay won first place in the national FOCUS Awards...
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uncredited input from six additional writers—David O. Selznick, Ben Hecht, Ring Lardner Jr., John Lee Mahin, Budd Schulberg and Adela Rogers St. Johns. Garland...
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Ad Astra (2019). Jones was married to Kate Lardner, the niece of screenwriter and journalist Ring Lardner Jr., from 1971 to 1978. He has two children from...
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the literary agent for several writers, including Dalton Trumbo and Ring Lardner Jr., both of whom were blacklisted in the McCarthy era. He was the brother...
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Ring Lardner, Jr. wrote the first episode under the name Lawrence McClellan. This was later changed to the name Eric Heath for UK broadcast. Ring Lardner...
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This is a list of films by the Hollywood Ten, who were cited for contempt of Congress and blacklisted after refusing to answer questions about their alleged...
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The Cincinnati Kid (category Films with screenplays by Ring Lardner Jr.)
Jessup's 1963 novel of the same name, was written by Ring Lardner Jr. and Terry Southern; it was Lardner's first major studio work since his 1947 blacklisting...
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Forever Amber (film) (category Films with screenplays by Ring Lardner Jr.)
Jessica Tandy. The film was adapted by Jerome Cady, Philip Dunne and Ring Lardner Jr., and directed by Otto Preminger, who replaced original director John...
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making propaganda broadcasts for the Nazis during the war. Screenwriter Ring Lardner Jr., a member of the Hollywood 10, a group of filmmakers who were charged...
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Virgin Island (film) (category Films with screenplays by Ring Lardner Jr.)
Cassavetes, Virginia Maskell and Sidney Poitier. It was adapted by Ring Lardner Jr. from the 1953 memoir Our Virgin Island by Robb White. The American...
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"ostracized as pro-communist along with her late blacklisted husband, Ring Lardner Jr." The daughter of Leon Lipetz, Chaney was born Fanya Lipetz (Russian:...
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Semi-Tough (category Films with screenplays by Ring Lardner Jr.)
Ritchie Written by Walter Bernstein Dan Jenkins Ring Lardner Jr. Screenplay by Walter Bernstein Ring Lardner Jr. (uncredited) Based on Semi-Tough by Dan Jenkins...
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popular sportswriters and contributed under the pen name Ring Lardner Jr.—a nod to Ring Lardner of the Chicago Tribune whose byline was "Line O'Type". After...
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assistant until February 1937, when she quit to marry screenwriter Ring Lardner Jr. During their honeymoon, she began to write a comic novel based upon...
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Laura (1944 film) (category Films with screenplays by Ring Lardner Jr.)
Caspary's story when her agent offered him the first draft of a play called Ring Twice for Laura. Preminger liked the high-society setting and the unusual...
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In 1941, Hepburn and he worked with his brother Michael Kanin and Ring Lardner, Jr., on the early drafts of what became Woman of the Year right before...
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Lardner (May 4, 1912 – March 24, 1960) was an American sports writer, WWII war correspondent, and author. He was the son of Ring Lardner. Lardner attended...
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The Cardinal (category Films with screenplays by Ring Lardner Jr.)
credited to Robert Dozier, but featured uncredited contributions by Ring Lardner Jr. who worked with Preminger in developing characterizations and story...
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Lady Liberty (film) (category Films with screenplays by Ring Lardner Jr.)
Monicelli Written by Leonard Melfi Suso Cecchi D'Amico Don Carlos Dunaway Ring Lardner Jr. (uncredited) Produced by Carlo Ponti Starring Sophia Loren William...
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Cloak and Dagger (1946 film) (category Films with screenplays by Ring Lardner Jr.)
audience knew the Germans had no nuclear capacity. The film's screenwriters Lardner and Maltz became two of the Hollywood Ten, accused of adding communist...
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attack from his colleagues—including Lawson, Howard Fast, Alvah Bessie, Ring Lardner Jr., and Samuel Sillen—Maltz publicly recanted. Following World War II...
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