Lester Cole, the Glossary
Lester Cole (June 19, 1904 – August 15, 1985) was an American screenwriter.[1]
Table of Contents
45 relations: Alger Hiss, American Jews, Among the Living (1941 film), Blood on the Sun, Born Free, Budd Schulberg, City University of New York, Clothing industry, Communist Party USA, Connecticut, Contempt of Congress, Danbury, Connecticut, Federal Correctional Institution, Danbury, High Wall, Hollywood blacklist, Hollywood on Trial, House Un-American Activities Committee, If I Had a Million, Informant, John Howard Lawson, Marxism, Men in Her Diary, New York City, None Shall Escape, Nothing More Than a Woman, Objective, Burma!, Pacific Blackout, Pirates of the Skies, Polish Americans, Ramparts (magazine), Ronald Radosh, Samuel Ornitz, San Francisco, Screenplay, Screenwriter, Secrets of a Nurse, Socialism, The Crime of Doctor Hallet, The Hollywood Reporter, The Hollywood Ten, The House of the Seven Gables (film), The Romance of Rosy Ridge, Union organizer, Walls of Gold, Writers Guild of America.
- Hollywood Ten
Alger Hiss
Alger Hiss (November 11, 1904 – November 15, 1996) was an American government official accused in 1948 of having spied for the Soviet Union in the 1930s.
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American Jews
American Jews or Jewish Americans are American citizens who are Jewish, whether by culture, ethnicity, or religion.
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Among the Living (1941 film)
Among the Living is a 1941 American horror film noir directed by Stuart Heisler and starring Albert Dekker, Susan Hayward, Harry Carey and Frances Farmer.
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Blood on the Sun
Blood on the Sun is a 1945 American spy thriller film directed by Frank Lloyd and starring James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney and Porter Hall.
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Born Free
Born Free is a 1966 British drama film starring the real-life couple Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers as Joy and George Adamson, another real-life couple, who raised Elsa the Lioness, an orphaned lion cub, to adulthood and released her into the wilderness of Kenya.
Budd Schulberg
Budd Schulberg (born Seymour Wilson Schulberg, March 27, 1914 – August 5, 2009) was an American screenwriter, television producer, novelist and sports writer. Lester Cole and Budd Schulberg are Jewish American screenwriters.
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City University of New York
The City University of New York (CUNY, spoken) is the public university system of New York City.
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Clothing industry
Clothing industry or garment industry summarizes the types of trade and industry along the production and value chain of clothing and garments, starting with the textile industry (producers of cotton, wool, fur, and synthetic fibre), embellishment using embroidery, via the fashion industry to apparel retailers up to trade with second-hand clothes and textile recycling.
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Communist Party USA
The Communist Party USA, officially the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), is a communist party in the United States which was established in 1919 after a split in the Socialist Party of America following the Russian Revolution.
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Connecticut
Connecticut is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.
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Contempt of Congress
Contempt of Congress is the misdemeanor act of obstructing the work of the United States Congress or one of its committees.
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Danbury, Connecticut
Danbury is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, located approximately northeast of New York City.
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Federal Correctional Institution, Danbury
The Federal Correctional Institution, Danbury (FCI Danbury) is a low-security United States federal prison for male and female inmates in Danbury, Connecticut.
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High Wall
High Wall is a 1947 American film noir starring Robert Taylor, Audrey Totter and Herbert Marshall.
Hollywood blacklist
The Hollywood blacklist was an entertainment industry blacklist put in effect in the mid-20th century in the United States during the early years of the Cold War, in Hollywood and elsewhere.
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Hollywood on Trial
Hollywood on Trial is a 1976 American documentary film directed by David Helpern.
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House Un-American Activities Committee
The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA), popularly the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives, created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having communist ties.
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If I Had a Million
If I Had a Million is a 1932 American pre-Code Paramount Studios anthology film starring Gary Cooper, George Raft, Charles Laughton, W. C. Fields, Jack Oakie, Frances Dee and Charlie Ruggles, among others.
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Informant
An informant (also called an informer or, as a slang term, a "snitch", "rat", "canary", "stool pigeon", "stoolie" or "grass", among other terms) is a person who provides privileged information, or (usually damaging) information intended to be intimate, concealed, or secret, about a person or organization to an agency, often a government or law enforcement agency.
John Howard Lawson
John Howard Lawson (September 25, 1894 – August 11, 1977) was an American writer, specializing in plays and screenplays. Lester Cole and John Howard Lawson are Hollywood Ten, Jewish American screenwriters and members of the Communist Party USA.
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Marxism
Marxism is a political philosophy and method of socioeconomic analysis.
Men in Her Diary
Men in Her Diary is a 1945 American comedy film.
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
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None Shall Escape
None Shall Escape is a 1944 war film.
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Nothing More Than a Woman
Nothing More Than a Woman (Spanish: Nada más que una mujer) is a 1934 American drama film directed by Harry Lachman and starring Berta Singerman, Alfredo del Diestro and Juan Torena.
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Objective, Burma!
Objective, Burma! is a 1945 American war film that is loosely based on the six-month raid by Merrill's Marauders in the Burma Campaign during the Second World War.
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Pacific Blackout
Pacific Blackout is a 1941 American mystery thriller film directed by Ralph Murphy and starring Robert Preston, Eva Gabor and Martha O'Driscoll.
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Pirates of the Skies
Pirates of the Skies (aka Plane 66) is a 1939 American action film directed by Joseph A. McDonough and written by Lester Cole and Ben Grauman Kohn.
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Polish Americans
Polish Americans (Polonia amerykańska) are Americans who either have total or partial Polish ancestry, or are citizens of the Republic of Poland.
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Ramparts (magazine)
Ramparts was a glossy illustrated American political and literary magazine, published from 1962 to 1975 and closely associated with the New Left political movement.
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Ronald Radosh
Ronald Radosh (born 1937) is an American social conservative writer, professor, historian, and former Marxist.
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Samuel Ornitz
Samuel Badisch Ornitz (November 15, 1890 – March 10, 1957) was an American screenwriter and novelist from New York City; he was one of the "Hollywood Ten"Obituary Variety, March 13, 1957, page 63. Lester Cole and Samuel Ornitz are Hollywood Ten and Jewish American screenwriters.
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San Francisco
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.
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Screenplay
A screenplay, or script, is a written work produced for a film, television show, or video game (as opposed to a stage play) by screenwriters.
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Screenwriter
A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs, and video games, are based.
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Secrets of a Nurse
Secrets of a Nurse is a 1938 American sports drama film directed by Arthur Lubin and starring Edmund Lowe, Helen Mack, and Dick Foran.
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Socialism is an economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership.
The Crime of Doctor Hallet
The Crime of Doctor Hallet is a 1938 American drama film, directed by S. Sylvan Simon and starring Ralph Bellamy, Josephine Hutchinson, William Gargan, Barbara Read, John 'Dusty' King, and Charles Stevens.
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The Hollywood Reporter
The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Hollywood film, television, and entertainment industries.
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The Hollywood Ten
The Hollywood Ten is a 1950 American 16mm short documentary film.
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The House of the Seven Gables (film)
The House of the Seven Gables is a 1940 Gothic drama film based on the 1851 novel of the same name by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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The Romance of Rosy Ridge
The Romance of Rosy Ridge is a 1947 American Western film directed by Roy Rowland, about a rural community bitterly divided during the aftermath of the American Civil War.
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Union organizer
A union organizer (or union organiser in Commonwealth spelling) is a specific type of trade union member (often elected) or an appointed union official.
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Walls of Gold
Walls of Gold is a 1933 American Pre-Code drama film directed by Kenneth MacKenna and starring Sally Eilers, Norman Foster, and Ralph Morgan.
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Writers Guild of America
The Writers Guild of America (WGA) is the generic term of two different American labor unions, representing writers in film, television, radio, and online media.
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See also
Hollywood Ten
- Adrian Scott
- Albert Maltz
- Alvah Bessie
- Dalton Trumbo
- Edward Dmytryk
- Herbert Biberman
- John Howard Lawson
- Lester Cole
- Ring Lardner Jr.
- Samuel Ornitz