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2 de nov. de 2000 · Ring Lardner Jr., whose satirical screenplays twice won the Academy Award but whose career collapsed in 1947 after he refused to tell Congress if he had ever been a Communist, died on Tuesday at ...
Summary. Ring Lardner was a sharp-witted American humorist who had an amazing ear for malapropisms, idioms, and the lively vernacular of early 20th-century Chicago and later the East Coast. Originally a sports writer for baseball, Lardner branched out to short stories in 1914, when he wrote serial fiction for the Saturday Evening Post.
In his three-hour interview, Ring Lardner, Jr. (1915-2000) describes his work as a screenwriter and his experiences as one of the most high-profile victims of the Hollywood Blacklist. He talks about working on films including A Star Is Born, for which he contributed the movie's famous ending, Woman of the Year, for which he and co-writer Michael Kanin won an Academy Award, and Laura, the ...
Ring Lardner. : Stories & Other Writings. “The generous, 961-page anthology edited by Ian Frazier strikes a balance between signature masterworks and unearthed treasures in attempting to capture the sweep of Lardner’s prolific output during his short life. . . . As with Twain, the Michigan-born Lardner’s most memorable stories were ...
This is more than a biography of the great humorist from Niles, Michigan. In a penetrating full-length portrait, Donald Elder has explored Ring Lardner’s whole world—the vibrant and inventive times in which he lived, the unforgettable people who surrounded him, and the impudent words that came from his typewriter.At the height of Lardner’s fame in the middle twenties he was known ...
Ring Lardner. Některá data mohou pocházet z datové položky. Ringgold Wilmer "Ring" Lardner ( 6. březen 1885, Niles, Michigan, USA – 25. září 1933, East Hampton, New York) byl americký novinář, sportovní reportér a autor humoristických povídek.
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 Hollywood film studios during the late 1940s and 1950s after his appearance as an "unfriendly" witness before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) leading to Lardner being found ...
