Author: Stuart Oderman
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476613699
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 409

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With a theatrical career spanning nearly 100 years, Gish saw motion pictures evolve from flickers to blockbusters. Usually playing someone needing to be rescued or protected, her trademark delicacy and vulnerability belied a strong and complex woman whose fatherless childhood taught her frugality, love for her mother and her sister, Dorothy, and a distrust of men. The author, who was her friend, chronicles the hardships, heartaches, and fierce determination that shaped her all her days. With rare photographs and intimate recollections of Lillian, Dorothy, and many other important figures.

Author: Clay Reynolds
Publisher: Troy, N.Y. : Whitston Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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"Reynolds's work focuses our attention on a significant period in American drama, raising our consciousness of these writers and their plays. . . . Disturbed that the social dramatists of the Depression are either ignored or relegated to a separate shelf, Reynolds reminds us of the vitality of their work and offers a compelling way to view their contributions to our modern drama."South Central Review

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 158

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Author: Richard Clay Reynolds
Publisher:
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 542

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Author: Richard Bertrand Dimmitt
Publisher:
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Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 1206

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Index to literary sources of feature films.

Author: Doris Alexander
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271041021
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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In Eugene O'Neill's Creative Struggle, Doris Alexander gives us a new kind of inside biography that begins where the others leave off. It follows O'Neill through the door into his writing room to give a blow-by-blow account of how he fought out in his plays his great life battles&—love against hate, doubt against belief, life against death&—to an ever-expanding understanding. It presents a new kind of criticism, showing how O'Neill's most intimate struggles worked their way to resolution through the drama of his plays. Alexander reveals that he was engineering his own consciousness through his plays and solving his life problems&—while the tone, imagery, and richness of the plays all came out of the nexus of memories summoned up by the urgency of the problems he faced in them. By the way of O'Neill, this study moves toward a theory of the impulse that sets off a writer's creativity, and a theory of how that impulse acts to shape a work, not only in a dramatist like O'Neill but also in the case of writers in other mediums, and even of painters and composers. The study begins with Desire Under the Elms because that play's plot was consolidated by a dream that opened up the transfixing grief that precipitated the play for O'Neill, and it ends with Days Without End when he had resolved his major emotional-philosophical struggle and created within himself the voice of his final great plays. Since the analysis brings to bear on the plays all of his conscious decisions, ideas, theories, as well as the life-and-death struggles motivating them, documenting even the final creative changes made during rehearsals, this book provides a definitive account of the nine plays analyzed in detail (Desire Under the Elms, Marco Millions, The Great God Brown, Lazarus Laughed, Strange Interlude, Dynamo, Mourning Becomes Electra, Ah, Wilderness!, and Days Without End, with additional analysis of plays written before and after.

Author: Harriet Hyman Alonso
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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"In this book, Harriet Hyman Alonso unravels Sherwood's inner struggle and portrays his political journey. Relying largely on his letters, diaries, plays, films, essays, and biography of Roosevelt and Harry Hopkins, she traces Sherwood's obsession with the world of politics and its effects on his life and art, from his experience as a soldier in World War I to the Cold War. She also describes his participation in the Algonquin Round Table, his friendships and working relationships with such notables as Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Edna Ferber, Spencer Tracy, Harry Hopkins, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, his two marriages and uneasy relationship with his daughter, and his leadership role in the Broadway community.".

Author: Phyllis Cole Braunlich
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806135106
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Phyllis Cole Braunlich sketches the life story of Lynn Riggs (18991954), the playwright best known as the author of Green Grow the Lilacs, the play that formed the basis for the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma! Today Riggs is recognized as one of the twentieth century’s most innovative playwrights. Santa Fe, Hollywood, New York, and Chapel Hill: these were the cities that Lynn Riggs, “father of the folk play,” called home, along with eastern Oklahoma, the scene of his memorable re-creations of Oklahoma Territory before statehood. Riggs traveled widely to make his living and his fame, and along the way he earned the friendship of many avant-garde writers and successful theatre people of his time. This biography is also a chronicle of literary and café society on both coasts and in New Mexico during the 1920s, ‘30s, and ‘40s.

Author: Marion Louise Horton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 0791093662
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 249

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A collection of essays about the works of Eugene O'Neill.