John Howard Lawson, an American playwright, film theorist, and publicist, died at the age of 83. From communicating with Lawson — I often saw him for two years in the 60s - I especially remember two features of this extremely charming man: honesty and modesty. Everything that Lawson said could be believed, as well as everything that oi wrote and left as a legacy to us, his readers and friends.

Lawson started working for cinema under a contract with Metro Goldwyn Mayer. So Lawson belonged to Hollywood? Yes, this is a Hollywood screenwriter, a representative of American cinematic culture. But he belonged to the democratic "grassroots" of Hollywood, and his whole life concept, his ideas about art, about the artist, about his purpose and style of work — all this in its entirety consistently opposed the Hollywood social concept and lifestyle. The demarcation went in the main direction — worldview, civic and artistic position.

"The fact," Lawson wrote, "that Hollywood invited me to work is a sample of the contradictions that took place in the case of Eisenstein."

In his films, Lawson defended cutting-edge ideas, addressing the burning issues of modern life. In the film "The Heart of Spain", the heat of Lawson's own heart is also felt: the script created by him was imbued with the deepest sympathies for the Spanish people, for the Republicans who took up arms against the Francoists. The films "Counterattack", "Operation in the North Atlantic", shot according to Lawson's scripts during the Second World War, captured the courage of people who fought against Nazism on land and at sea. The list could be continued. Lawson's scripts carried a charge of the progressive attitude of the artist, his firm democratic beliefs.

Lawson was equally purposeful and consistent in his theoretical activities. The books translated into Russian and published here, like his other works, reveal the concept of cinema of advanced thought and creative search.

Lawson's whole life is a struggle for humanistic ideals, combined with overcoming certain internal contradictions. Before Lawson started working at Metro Goldwyn Mayer in 1928, he went through a complex evolution, in Lawson's words, "typical for a representative of the intelligentsia of my generation. It was a rebellious and confused generation, formed under the influence of a collision with the horrors and senselessness of the First World War."

During the war, Lawson was on the Red Cross sanitary service in France and Italy — with Dos Passos, Hemingway and Cummings. This communication did not pass without a trace.

In 1927, together with Michael Gold, John Dos Passos and others, he founded the New Playwrights Theater, whose performances in theme and style are consonant with some famous productions of Meyerhold in the Soviet Union and Piscator in Germany, carried out in the 20s.

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