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Ring Lardner Jr. (Ringgold Wilmer Lardner Jr.) was born on 15 August, 1915 in Chicago, Illinois, USA, is a writer. Discover Ring Lardner Jr.'s Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 85 years old?

Popular As Ringgold Wilmer Lardner Jr.
Occupation writer
Age 85 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 15 August 1915
Birthday 15 August
Birthplace Chicago, Illinois, USA
Date of death 31 October, 2000
Died Place Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Nationality United States

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Ring Lardner Jr. Height, Weight & Measurements

At 85 years old, Ring Lardner Jr. height is 6' (1.83 m) .

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Height 6' (1.83 m)
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Who Is Ring Lardner Jr.'s Wife?

His wife is Frances Chaney (28 September 1946 - 31 October 2000) ( his death) ( 1 child), Sylvia Schulman (19 February 1937 - 27 August 1945) ( divorced) ( 2 children)

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Wife Frances Chaney (28 September 1946 - 31 October 2000) ( his death) ( 1 child), Sylvia Schulman (19 February 1937 - 27 August 1945) ( divorced) ( 2 children)
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Ring Lardner Jr. Net Worth

His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Ring Lardner Jr. worth at the age of 85 years old? Ring Lardner Jr.’s income source is mostly from being a successful Writer. He is from United States. We have estimated Ring Lardner Jr.'s net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

Woman of the Year (1942)$100,000 (shared with co-wrtier Michael Kanin)

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1915

The Oscar-winning screenwriter, Ring Lardner, Jr. , will always be known for one of two things: that he was the son of one of the greatest humorists American literature has produced, and he was one of the Hollywood 10, the ten film-makers who refused to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) investigating subversion in Hollywood and were fined and jailed for the defiance. The son of newspaper sports columnist and best-selling writer Ring Lardner, the future double Oscar winner was born on August 19, 1915 in Chicago, Illinois. Ring, Sr. (who was born Ringgold Wilmer Lardner) became famous for his "Saturday Evening Post" series, "You Know Me Al", fictional letters being sent from one baseball player to another. Mawell Perkins, editor-extraordinaire at the publishing house, Charles Scribners & Son, collected Lardner's columns and stories into publishable form (Ernest Hemingway, another Scribers writer, was a great fan) and they were a great success.

1930

Although his leftist politics were known to the studios, in the 1930s and early '40s, Hollywood did not shy away from hiring talented writers no matter what their political proclivities, and employed many known (as well as secret) communists.

1939

He had 2 children with his first wife, Sylvia: son, Peter (born in 1939), and daughter, Barbara (born in 1940). He also had a son, James, with his second wife, Frances.

1942

Katharine Hepburn refused to tell MGM boss Louis B. Mayer who wrote Woman of the Year (1942) despite the fact that Mayer liked the script and was eager to purchase it. Only after Mayer signed an agreement purchasing the script which included a fee of $100,000 for the co-authors did Hepburn reveal it was written by two relative unknowns, Ring Lardner Jr. and Michael Kanin. Hepburn was afraid if Mayer knew who actually wrote the screenplay he might low ball the authors because both had little clout as of then in Hollywood.

1943

In 1943, he and Michael Kanin won the Oscar in 1942 for their Woman of the Year (1942) screenplay.

1944

He wrote such great pictures as Laura (1944) for Otto Preminger and, in 1947, 20th Century Fox gave him a contract at $2,000 a week, making him one of the highest paid scribes in La-La Land. Ironically, at the time of this seeming triumph, his career and life were about to unravel. When it was Lardner turn to be hauled before HUAC and asked, "Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party of the United States?", he came up with a witty riposte. "I could answer the question exactly the way you want, but if I did, I would hate myself in the morning". After the appeals process against HUAC's citations for contempt of Congress played out, Lardner was sentenced to a year in prison and fined. More importantly, he was blacklisted and could not find work in Hollywood except under pseudonyms for work "fronted" by others.

1960

After the blacklist was officially broken when Preminger hired Dalton Trumbo to adapt Leon Uris's novel "Exodus" for his 1960 production (Kirk Douglas then immediately hired Trumbo to write a screenplay for his upcoming Spartacus (1960)), the blacklisted writers slowly returned to work under their own names.

1963

Such was Lardner's renown, that 30 years after his death (while his son and namesake was still officially blacklisted), he was the first sportswriter inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, for meritorious contributions to baseball writing, in 1963. On his part, Ring, Jr. became a reporter for the "New York Daily Mirror" after dropping out of Princeton. He moved West and became a publicist for producer David O. Selznick, where he met his future wife, who also worked for the producer. He also worked as a script doctor for Selznik, then went on to become a screenwriter, often working in collaboration. During the Spanish Civil War, Lardner moved steadily left in his political thinking, and helped raise funds for the Republican cause. He joined the Communist Party and became involved in organizing anti-fascist demonstrations.

1965

Lardner was hired by producer Martin Ransohoff, who respected writers more than did the average Hollywood producer, to write the screenplay for The Cincinnati Kid (1965) under his own name.

1970

Won an Academy Award for MASH (1970), when, ironically, very little of his original script "made it" into the film.

1971

His comeback was complete when, in 1971, he won his second Oscar for adapting Robert Hooker's comic novel, "M*A*S*H" (1970) (ironically, due to director Robert Altman's improvisational style, little of Lardner's dialogue remained in the movie). His career, though, had been effectively aborted by the blacklist, and he only was credited with two more screenplays during his lifetime. Ring Lardner, Jr.