Yahoo Web Search

Search results

  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Lester_ColeLester Cole - Wikipedia

    Lester Cole (June 19, 1904 – August 15, 1985) was an American screenwriter. He was one of the Hollywood Ten, a group of screenwriters and directors who were cited for contempt of Congress and blacklisted for their refusal to testify regarding their alleged involvement with the Communist Party.

  2. Lester Cole. Writer: The Invisible Man Returns. Screenwriter Lester Cole, who is known in cinema history primarily as a member of the "Hollywood Ten," a group who defied the House Committee on Un-American Activities investigation into their political beliefs who were black-listed by the industry for their defiance, was born on June 19, 1904 in ...

    • June 19, 1904
    • August 15, 1985
  3. Aug 18, 1985 · Lester Cole, a screenwriter who was one of the 10 Hollywood figures sent to prison in 1950 for refusing to testify before a House committee investigating Communist influence in the motion-picture...

  4. Aug 17, 1985 · Lester Cole, an unreconstructed socialist who watched a successful screen-writing career vanish in a political cloud when he became one of the “Hollywood Ten” in the postwar Red-scare era, died...

  5. Nov 16, 2015 · Lester Cole (1904 – 1985) Image Credit: AP Images The child of Polish immigrants, Cole (ne Cohn) owed his political leanings to his Marxist father, who was a garment union organizer in New York...

  6. In his 1981 autobiography, Hollywood Red, screenwriter Lester Cole affirmed that virtually all of the Hollywood Ten had been CPUSA members at some point. [97] Other members of the Hollywood Ten, such as Dalton Trumbo [ 98 ] and Edward Dmytryk , [ 99 ] publicly admitted to being Communists while testifying before the committee.

  7. People also ask

  8. Mar 24, 2023 · Lester Cole was a prolific screenwriter who co founded the Screen Writers Guild in 1933 with John Howard Lawson and Samuel Ornitz, two other writers who would later join him in the...

  1. People also search for