Ringgold Wilmer Lardner ( March 6, 1885 – September 25, 1933 ) was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical takes on the sports world, marriage, and the theatre.

Born in Niles, Michigan, Ring Lardner was the son of wealthy parents Henry and Lena Phillips Lardner.

The cousin, in turn had been named by Lardner's uncle, Rear Admiral James L. Lardner, who had decided to name his son after a friend, Rear Admiral Cadwalader Ringgold, who was from a distinguished military family.

Lardner was married to Ellis Abbott of Goshen, Indiana in 1911.

Ring Lardner, Jr. was a screenwriter who was blacklisted after the Second World War as one of the Hollywood Ten, screenwriters who were incarcerated for contempt of Congress after refusing to answer questions posed by the House Un-American Activities Committee ( HUAC ).

" Ring Lardner thought of himself as primarily a sports columnist whose stuff wasn't destined to last, and he held to that absurd belief even after his first masterpiece, You Know Me Al, was published in 1916 and earned the awed appreciation of Virginia Woolf, among other very serious, unfunny people ", wrote Andrew Ferguson, who named it, in a Wall Street Journal article, one of the top five pieces of American humor writing.

Lardner also had a lifelong fascination with the theatre, although his only success was June Moon, a comedy co-written with Broadway veteran George S. Kaufman.

Lardner was a close friend of F. Scott Fitzgerald and other writers of the Jazz Age.

With the exception of You Know Me Al, which was initially written and published as six separate stories, Lardner never wrote a novel, but is considered by many to be one of America's best writers of the short story.

Lardner was also a well-known sports columnist, who began his career as a teenager with the South Bend Tribune.

It was directed by George Stevens, produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and written by Ring Lardner Jr. and Michael Kanin ( his brother Garson Kanin thought up the original idea and worked with Katharine Hepburn along with brother Michael and Lardner on the early drafts, without credit.

Kanin was fighting in the war at the time, so the script was written by his brother, Michael Kanin, and mutual friend Ring Lardner, Jr. Hepburn contributed significantly to the script-reading it, suggesting cuts and word changes, and generally providing helpful enthusiasm for the project.

Ringgold Wilmer " Ring " Lardner, Jr. ( August 19, 1915 – October 31, 2000 ) was an American journalist and screenwriter blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios during the Red Scare of the late 1940s and 1950s.

Born in Chicago, he was the son of Ellis ( Abbott ) and journalist and humorist, Ring Lardner.

His brother, James Lardner, was a member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, and was killed in action in Spain in 1938.

Lardner was sentenced to 12 months in Danbury Prison and fined $ 1, 000.

Lardner refused to tell which movie it was, saying that it would be unfair to reveal it because the writer who allowed Lardner, Jr., to use his name as a front ( as Lardner's pseudonym ) was doing him a big favor at the time.

* 1993: George Lardner Jr., The Washington Post, " for his unflinching examination of his daughter's murder by a violent man who had slipped through the criminal justice system.

* Sondheim appears in the 1974 PBS television version of the play June Moon by George S. Kaufman and Ring Lardner.

* Mike Allen and George Lardner Jr., " Papers Offer Details on Bush Knowledge Motive for Stock Sale In ' 90 Remains Unclear ", Washington Post Sunday, July 14, 2002 ; Page A01

He was one of several writers who had worked on versions of the screenplay, including Paddy Chayevsky, George Good, and Ring Lardner Jr.

Written by Ring Lardner and produced by George M. Cohan, Walter Huston was the star.

* Lardner, George Jr. " FBI Hindering Probe of Presser, Panel Told.

* Lardner, George Jr. " Mob Backed Presser, Trial Told.

* Lardner, George Jr. " Presser Probe Hindered By FBI, Report Says.

* Lardner, George Jr. " Teamsters President Indicted.

* Lardner, George Jr. " Teamsters ' Presser Led Two Lives As He Rose to the Top of the Union.

* TCM Remembers 2000: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Nancy Coleman, Rose Hobart, Muriel Evans, Steve Reeves, Gwen Verdon, Francis Lederer, Nan Leslie, director Don Weis, director Roger Vadim, Joan Marsh, Billy Barty, costume designer Bill Thomas, Max Showalter, Vittorio Gassman, Marie Windsor, Craig Stevens, David Tomlinson, Richard Farnsworth, director Claude Autant-Lara, film preserver James Card, Beah Richards, Julie London, Marceline Day, Nancy Marchand, Harold Nicholas, Nils Poppe, director Joseph H. Lewis, composer George Duning, director Lewis Allen, Ann Doran, Jean Peters, editor David Bretherlen, writer Curt Siodmak, screenwriter Ring Lardner, Jr., Alec Guinness, Loretta Young, Jason Robards, John Gielgud, Hedy Lamarr, Claire Trevor and Walter Matthau.

She appeared in the original 1929 production of June Moon by George S. Kaufman and Ring Lardner and reprised her role in the 1933 revival.

Other writers, including Ring Lardner Jr., Budd Schulberg, Dorothy Parker, Sidney Howard, Moss Hart, George S. Kaufman and Robert Carson also made uncredited contributions to the screenplay.

Her first Paramount film was June Moon ( released March 21, 1931 ), based on the play by George S. Kaufman and Ring Lardner.

In the New York Times obituary, he was bracketed with George Ade and Ring Lardner as a popularizer of " a new slang vernacular.

He tried a number of theatrical agencies before getting stage work and later appeared on Broadway in the George S. Kaufman / Ring Lardner play June Moon in 1929.

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Lardner never liked his given name and shortened it, naming one of his sons Ring Jr.

* August 19 – Ring Lardner Jr., American film screenwriter ( d. 2000 )

Ring Lardner Jr describes in Archive of America Television oral history interviews ( 2000 ) that changes made to the ending of the film were against the wishes of Katherine Hepburn, whilst both screenwriters were on vacation in New York.

* Win for Best Original Screenplay ( Michael Kanin and Ring Lardner, Jr .)

Former studio employees named by Warner included Alvah Bessie, Howard Koch, Ring Lardner Jr., John Howard Lawson, Albert Maltz, Robert Rossen, Dalton Trumbo, Clifford Odets, and Irwin Shaw.

Ring Lardner Jr. moved to Hollywood where he worked as a publicist and " script doctor " before writing his own material.

Ring Lardner Jr. ( far right ) with eight others of the Hollywood 10 charged with contempt of Congress in 1947.

Ring Lardner, Jr., died in Manhattan, New York, in 2000.

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Ring Lardner, Jr., attends, but refuses to answer any questions.

Today, the best known of the Hollywood Ten are the writers Ring Lardner, Jr. and Dalton Trumbo, who was barred from openly working in Hollywood for over a dozen years as a result of his defiance of HUAC.