Writer
John Howard Lawson is not the most famous member of the Hollywood 10, those filmmakers who defied the House Committee on Un-American Activities' inquiry into alleged "Communist subversion" in the Hollywood movie industry in 1947, but he was the central figure of the group--the mind if not the heart and soul of the Communist community in Hollywood....
Born: September 25, 1894
Star sign: Libra
Known for: Sahara (1943), Algiers (1938), Action in the North Atlantic (1943), Success at Any Price (1934)
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