Ring Lardner Jr.

Writing

Ring Lardner Jr.

Born — Died

1915-08-19 — 2000-10-31

Place of birth

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Known for

Writing

Credits

25 titles

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. Ring Lardner Jr. moved to Hollywood where he worked as a publicist and "script doctor" before writing his own material. This included Woman of the Year, a film that won him an Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay in 1942. He also worked on the scripts for the films Laura (1944), Brotherhood of Man (1946), Forever Amber (1947), and M*A*S*H (1970). The script of the latter earned him an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Lardner he…

Known for

Film credits

2000s · 3 titles

Behind the camera

The Cardinal poster
6.5

A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.

The Cardinal

1963

M*A*S*H poster
6.9

One of the world's most acclaimed comedies, M*A*S*H focuses on three Korean War Army surgeons brilliantly brought to life by Donald Sutherland, Tom Skerritt and Elliott Gould. Though highly skilled and deeply dedicated, they adopt a hilarious, lunatic lifestyle as an antidote to the tragedies of their Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, and in the process infuriate Army bureaucrats. Robert Duvall, Gary Burghoff and Sally Kellerman co-star as a sanctimonious Major, an other-worldly Corporal, and a self-righteous yet lusty nurse.

M*A*S*H

1970

Woman of the Year poster
7.0

Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.

Woman of the Year

1942

The Cincinnati Kid poster
7.0

An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.

The Cincinnati Kid

1965

Laura poster
7.6

A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.

Laura

1944

Cloak and Dagger poster
6.5

Italian partisans help a professor sent by the OSS to find an atomic scientist held by Nazis.

Cloak and Dagger

1946

A Breath of Scandal poster
5.5

A European princess jeopardizes her crown when she falls for an American millionaire.

A Breath of Scandal

1960

The Greatest poster
5.7

Muhammad Ali's life story up to the late 1970s, which includes his Olympic boxing triumphs as Cassius Clay, his conversion to Islam, his refusal of the Army draft and the legal battle after being stripped of his World Title.

The Greatest

1977

Lady Liberty poster
5.5

An Italian woman faces challenges at JFK Airport when Customs confiscates the mortadella sausage she brought as a gift for her fiancé, leading to a humorous and frustrating ordeal.

Lady Liberty

1971

Forever Amber poster
6.1

Amber St Clair, orphaned during the English Civil War and raised by a family of farmers, aspires to be a lady of high society; when a group of cavaliers ride into town, she sneaks away with them to London to achieve her dreams.

Forever Amber

1947

The Cross of Lorraine poster
6.5

French soldiers surrender to lying Nazis and are herded into a barbaric prison of war camp. From there they plan an uprising.

The Cross of Lorraine

1943

Meet Dr. Christian poster
7.0

The first of six films in the "Dr. Christian" series, starring Jean Hersholt as a small town doctor trying to convince local officials to approve funds for a new hospital.

Meet Dr. Christian

1939

The Courageous Dr. Christian poster
6.2

A doctor fights an epidemic that breaks out in the poor section of town and tries to get the rest of the town to help out.

The Courageous Dr. Christian

1940

The Big Night poster
6.8

A young man zigzags through the sordid vortex of downtown Los Angeles while seeking vengeance on the man that beat his father.

The Big Night

1951

Tomorrow, the World! poster
8.1

German boy Emil comes to live with his American uncle who tries to teach the former Hitler Youth to reject Nazism.

Tomorrow, the World!

1944

Virgin Island poster
6.3

A British woman marries an American writer in spite of her family's disapproval and goes to live with him on a tropical island.

Virgin Island

1959

The Forbidden Street poster
6.9

In Victorian London, young Adelaide is born into luxury, but marries starving artist Henry. His alcoholism and their lack of money lead to many quarrels. During one such fight, Henry slips down a flight of stairs and dies. A neighbor, Mrs. Mounsey, is the only witness, and she blackmails the young widow by threatening to tell the cops that Adelaide killed her husband. Luckily, lawyer Gilbert swoops in to help Adelaide.

The Forbidden Street

1949

Brotherhood of Man poster
6.3

Made from a pamphlet and financed by a union, the message that the similarities between people are greater than any racial differences, was part of a post WW2 optimism which was soon to be seen as leftist propaganda and now reads like simple multiculturalism.

Brotherhood of Man

1945