Word: playwrights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occasion, Playwright Oboler had constructed This Lonely Heart, a doloroso radio fluoroscoping of the troubled soul of Tschaikowsky's ever-loving patroness, Mme von Meek (Nazimova...
...Warner Bros.) is a drama of anonymous mother love, circa 1861-80, outwardly as dated and dusty as a daguerreotype. To bring Edith Wharton's old-fashioned story to life on Broadway four years ago required the highly finished services of Actresses Judith Anderson and Helen Menken, oldtime Playwright Zoë Akins. To make it live on the screen, Warner Bros, teamed their pop-eyed Bernhardt, Bette Davis, with an equally fiery filly from off the home lot, honey-haired Miriam Hopkins. The result flounces its skirts a little more boldly than the stage show but, like...
Married. Madge Evans, 30, blonde screen and stage actress of 25 years' standing, and Sidney Kingsley, 32, Pulitzer Prize playwright (Men in White, Dead End); both for the first time, in York Village...
Married. Sacha Guitry, 54, flamboyant French actor-playwright-producer; and Genevieve de Seréville, 18, beauteous, stagestruck debutante; he for the fourth time (other brides: Charlotte Lysés, Yvonne Printemps, Jacqueline Delubac); in Versailles. Hour before the wedding Actor Guitry personally invited President & Mme Lebrun. They hedged, finally sent a minor official in their stead...
...playwright and screen writer, Samson Raphaelson is as good as they come. His light comedies (The Jazz Singer, Young Love, Accent on Youth) not only packed them in, critics liked them too, praised their deftness, wit, freshness. But Broadway and Hollywood are not Parnassus. Skylark, a fluffy first novel originally written as a play (serialized in the Satevepost as Streamlined Heart), last week proved that Samson Raphaelson's stuff is better on boards than in them...