Author: Lillian Hellman
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822212232
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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THE STORY: Concerns an idealistic German who, with his American wife and two children, flees Hitler's Germany and finds sanctuary with his wife's family in the United States. He hopes for a respite from the dangerous work in which he has been invol
Author: Wendy Wasserstein
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156000130
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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Three Jewish middle-aged sisters, originally from Brooklyn, come together in Queen Anne's Gate, London, to celebrate the fifty-fourth birthday of Sara, the eldest, now a brilliant British banker. Divorced, a single mother, Sara no longer sees the necessity for romance. Gorgeous, suburban housewife and mother, is also a talk-show personality. And Pfeni, journalist and travel writer, still hasn't written her serious book on the women of Tajikistan. Pfeni's boyfriend, Geoffrey, director of the hit musical The Scarlet Pimpernel, brings to Sara's house Mervyn, a faux furrier, "the world leader in synthetic animal protective covering". Sara meets Merv and finds that even at fifty-four there are possibilities. An exuberant, heart-warming, contemporary comedy by one of America's best playwrights.
Author: Lillian Hellman
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822206774
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Theatre program.
Author: Lillian Hellman
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822200826
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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THE STORY: In the words of New York Post : Miss Hellman is contemplating the meaning of middle age to an assorted group of people gathered together in a summer home... All of them are in one way or another frustrated and unhappy. Most of them
Author: Lillian Hellman
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822202059
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 84
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A serious play about two women who run a school for girls.
Author: Robert P. Newman
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9780807818152
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Newman presents the story of author Lillian Hellman's intense relationship with Foreign Service officer John Melby--a relationship which cost Melby his job in a case of "guilt by association". Illustrations.
Author: Bernard F. Dick
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838631409
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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Though Hellman is best known for her work in theater and for her memoirs, much of her work has been adapted for movies. She was deeply involved in writing film scripts and adapting the work of others to the screen. Dick tells the history of Hellman's contributions to American film as a playwright, screenwriter and adapter and analyses each play and its corresponding film to determine whether the adaptation achieves as a film what the original achieved as literature. ISBN 0-8386-3140-1.
Author: Deborah Martinson
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1582437238
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 481
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Few literary celebrities have lived with more abandon and under a brighter spotlight than Lillian Hellman. Even fewer have been doubted as absolutely as Hellman, famously denounced by rival Mary McCarthy. Attacked by critics and idealized by admirers, Hellman's determination to control and manipulate her image helped make her a figure of unknowable half–truths and rumors. Until now. Lillian Hellman: A Life with Foxes and Scoundrels is the first biography of the iconoclastic playwright written with the full cooperation of her family, friends, and inner circle. Deborah Martinson moves beyond the myths around Hellman and finds the sassy, outrageous woman committed to writing, to politics, and to having her say. Martinson's research—through interviews, archives, recently declassified CIA files, and her unprecedented access to Hellman's confidants—paints the most complete, and surprisingly admiring, portrait of this remarkable writer that we've ever had. Distinctly American—a New Orleans Jew with one foot in Manhattan and one in Hollywood, a writer whose experience spanned the Great Depression, the Cold War, and the Nixon years—Hellman lives again in this riveting biography, facing the world with wit, truth, lies, and chutzpah.
Author: Lillian Hellman
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822200529
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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THE STORY: The play takes place in the 1880s. Marcus Hubbard, rich, despotic and despised, made a fortune during the Civil War by running the blockade--and worse. In his family life he is equally injurious: one son he bulldozes while the other he ho
Author: Lillian Hellman
Publisher: Back Bay Books
ISBN: 9780316352949
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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In 1952, Hellman joined the ranks of intellectuals and artists called before Congress to testify about political subversion. Terrified yet defiant, Hellman refused to incriminate herself or others, and managed to avoid trial. Nonetheless the experience brought devastating controversy and loss. First published in 1972, her retelling of the time features a remarkable cast of characters, including her lover, novelist Dashiell Hammett, a slew of famous friends and colleagues, and a pack of "scoundrels" -- ruthless, ambitious politicians and the people who complied with their demands.
