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Speaking Volumes: In the Right? The last of the Hollywood 10 sticks to his guns when it comes to communism

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From: Jewish Exponent
Date: 20010222
Author:Leiter, Robert

Leiter, Robert
Jewish Exponent
02-22-2001
Speaking Volumes: In the Right? The last of the Hollywood 10 sticks to his
guns when it comes to communism

The screenwriter Ring Lardner Jr. died late last year and the obituaries,
especially a three-quarter-page notice in The New York Times, gave him a
reverential send-off. It was noted that he had contributed to two
near-classic pictures, the first Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy film,
"Woman of the Year," and Robert Altman's "M*A*S*H."

But perhaps what was most notable about Lardner was that he was the last
surviving member of the Hollywood 10, the ...

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