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 | | In 1928, Lawson moved to Hollywood where he wrote scripts for films such as "The Ship for Shanghai," "Bachelor Apartment," and "Goodbye Love." In 1933, Lawson joined with Lester Cole and Samuel Ornitz to establish the Writers' Guild of America and was the organization's first president. |
 | | Lawson, who joined the American Communist Party in 1934, made several films that were were political, including Blockade (1938), a film on the Spanish Civil War for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Story. |
 | | They are (left to right), Robert Scott, Edward Dmytryk, Samuel Ornitz, Lester Cole, Herbert Biberman, Albert Maltz, Alvah Bessie, John Lawson, and Ring Lardner, Jr. |
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