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Word: lillian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...merits and trumpeting the number of Gone With the Wind records already shattered. Some of them: shooting time, eight months and three weeks, about a month more than Selznick's GWTW; extras and bit players, 3,000; nine stars, including Joseph Gotten, Gregory Peck, Walter Huston, Lillian Gish and Jennifer (Bernadette) Jones, who is cast this time as a sexy, busty half-breed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Feb. 4, 1946 | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

...World-and Welcome to It, My Life and Hard Times), was admitted to the dusty, plushy National Institute of Arts and Letters.* Also elevated: versifying Information Pleaser Franklin Pierce Adams, meticulous Poet Wallace Stevens (Harmonium), rumpled, ever-ready Poet Robert P. Tristram Coffin (Maine Ballads), left-winging Dramatist Lillian Hellman (Watch on the Rhine), New York Times Columnist Simeon Strunsky (Topics of The Times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 7, 1946 | 1/7/1946 | See Source »

Strange Fruit (adapted from Lillian Smith's novel by the author, with the assistance of Esther Smith; produced by José Ferrer), on the stage, as in book form, pulls no sociological punches. But the play lacks dramatic punch. A fledgling Broadway playwright, Lillian Smith too often wobbles in her storytelling, too often fails to pick up the dramatic scent. An unconverted novelist, she has gamely but unwisely tried to transfer to the stage the whole life of a Georgia town. The result is far less spacious than sprawling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays in Manhattan, Dec. 10, 1945 | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

Though fully aware of her theatrical inexperience, Novelist Lillian Smith decided to dramatize Strange Fruit herself for fear that an "outside dramatist" would misrepresent the book. Says she: "I knew it would have been easy to make a racial Romeo and Juliet out of it ... I wanted a panoramic picture of human beings-white and colored-trapped by the whole mechanism of segregation. I broke a great many rules but I knew what rules I was breaking . . . I'm proud of it ... I wouldn't change a word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays in Manhattan, Dec. 10, 1945 | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

...there in the night and looked at the sky . . ." concludes Lillian Smith. "The wind was blowing cool in our faces, and somehow seemed nearer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Pink Egg | 10/29/1945 | See Source »

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