Word: playwright
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...were one of those couples everyone worried about when we were married," Actress Helen Hayes confided to Hearst Reporter Inez Robb last week, 22 years after her one & only marriage. "They thought of [Playwright Charles MacArthur] as a fantastic, wild creature and of me as little miss mouse, and they said it would never...
Died. Jane Cowl, 65, oldtime glamorous Broadway star (Romeo and Juliet) turned Hollywood character actress (The Secret Fury), playwright (coauthor of such hits as Smilin' Through and Lilac Time), wartime co-director of Manhattan's Stage Door Canteen; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif...
Three months ago British Playwright R. C. Sherriff (Journey's End) turned down a $28,000 offer to write a movie scenario for Hollywood. Reason: after paying Socialist Britain's income tax, Sherriff reckoned that he would have only $1,400 of his earnings left (TIME, March 27). Last week another British writer announced his intention to strike against the exorbitant tax rates. From his latest book Legacy, Novelist Nevil Shute (Pastoral, Chequer Board) expects to make about ?18,000 ($50,400), but after paying British taxes he will be able to keep only about...
From Paris, Playwright Tennessee (A Streetcar Named Desire) Williams admitted that he had just finished his first novel, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, about a retired American actress living in Rome. The book will not be published until September, but Williams has already set his heart on Greta Garbo to star in the movie version...
Zanuck runs the weekend party with the same steely control he uses at the studio. He refuses to play any game at which he does not excel. Since Playwright-Scripter Moss Hart introduced him to croquet, he has made it a cult, has turned his lawn into one of the world's best-kept croquet courts, complete with floodlights...