Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hollywood benignly agreed that Playwright McGiver was ready for some graduate work. Cinemogul David O. Selznick sent him the script of the forthcoming Portrait of Jenny, asked if McGiver would please, for good Hollywood money, just touch up the Irish dialogue...
...last 36 years Coward has been getting impressive applause and profits in almost every other form of show business; he has been a successful playwright, stage & screen star, composer, director, producer, librettist, sometime song-&-dance man. Occasionally he has been a guest on U.S. radio shows. But the BBC normally pays only pittances to its performers, and Noel Coward, a commercial showman to his talented, tapered finger tips, works for no pittance...
Drama. Eugene O'Neill's first play in twelve years, The Iceman Cometh, was second-rate O'Neill, but even so, added stature to the season. So did Another Part of the Forest, without being entirely first-rate Lillian Hellman. Meanwhile, a virtually unknown playwright, Arthur Miller, won the Drama Critics' award, with All My Sons...
Returning to Broadway (where she was last seen in Of Mice and Men) after almost ten years in England. Not to be confused with Playwright-Former Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce...
Married. Anne Kaufman, 22, daughter of Playwright George (The Man Who Came to Dinner) Kaufman; and Bruce D. Colen, 23, manuscript reader for Publishers Simon & Schuster; she for the second time, he for the first; in Bucks County...