off: About this incident, Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley (Hollywood Party: How Communism Seduced the American Film Industry) comments, "Whether this actually happened is uncertain, but one can guess." Lester Cole died of a heart attack in San Francisco, California, in 1985. Ronald Radosh, Emeritus Professor of History at City University of New York, wrote that Cole "remained a hardcore Communist" until his death. Selected filmography Painted Faces (1929) Walls of Gold (1933) Nothing More Than a Woman (1934) The Crime of Doctor Hallet (1938) Secrets of a Nurse (1938) Pirates of the Skies (1939) The House of the Seven Gables (1940) Pacific Blackout (1941) Among the Living (1941) None Shall Escape (1944) Blood on the Sun (1945) Objective, Burma! (1945) Men in Her Diary (1945) The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947) High Wall (1947) See also The Hollywood Ten documentary. Hollywood on Trial References External links . 1904 births 1985 deaths Writers from New York City American male screenwriters Jewish American screenwriters Hollywood blacklist Members of the Communist Party USA Screenwriters from New York (state) 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American screenwriters