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Ketti Frings
Ketti Frings (28 February 1909 – 11 February 1981) was an American writer, playwright, and screenwriter who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1958. Early life and education Katherine Hartley was born in Columbus, Ohio. She attended Principia College. Career She began her career as a copywriter, and went on to work as a feature writer for United Press International. In 1941, her novel ''Hold Back the Dawn'' was adapted for the screen. The resulting movie was directed by Mitchell Leisen and starred Olivia de Havilland and Charles Boyer. She wrote her first Broadway play, '' Mr. Sycamore'', in 1942. The play featured Lillian Gish and Stuart Erwin in the lead roles. Her Hollywood screenplays include '' Guest in the House'' (1944), '' The Accused'' (1949), '' The File on Thelma Jordon'' (1950), '' Come Back, Little Sheba'' (1952), '' About Mrs. Leslie'' (1954), '' The Shrike'' (1955), and '' Foxfire'' (1955). Frings adapted the Thomas Wolfe novel '' Look Homeward, Angel'' into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Columbus, Ohio
Columbus (, ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of cities in Ohio, most populous city of the U.S. state of Ohio. With a 2020 United States census, 2020 census population of 905,748, it is the List of United States cities by population, 14th-most populous city in the U.S., the second-most populous city in the Midwestern United States, Midwest (after Chicago), and the third-most populous U.S. state capital (after Phoenix, Arizona, and Austin, Texas). Columbus is the county seat of Franklin County, Ohio, Franklin County; it also extends into Delaware County, Ohio, Delaware and Fairfield County, Ohio, Fairfield counties. The Columbus metropolitan area, Ohio, Columbus metropolitan area encompasses ten counties in central Ohio and had a population of 2.14 million in 2020, making it the Ohio statistical areas, largest metropolitan area entirely in Ohio and Metropolitan statistical area, 32nd-largest metro area in the U.S. Columbus originated as several Nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guest In The House
''Guest in the House'' (re-release title ''Satan in Skirts'') is a 1944 American film noir directed by John Brahm starring Anne Baxter and Ralph Bellamy. Lewis Milestone began directing the film in April 1944, but was stricken with appendicitis in May 1944 and collapsed on the set. John Brahm then stepped in to direct. Plot Martha Proctor believes something evil has come to her home. Her nephew Dr. Dan Proctor arrives with his betrothed, Evelyn Heath, who is a frail invalid. Evelyn is introduced to Aunt Martha as well as Dan's older brother, Douglas, an illustrator, along with Douglas's wife Ann and his model, Miriam. The women sympathize with Evelyn, knowing of the hard life she has had. Evelyn has bouts of hysteria, involving her fear of birds, and also keeps a secret diary in which she mocks Aunt Martha for her spinsterhood status, scorns her fiancé Dan, and expresses a desire for Douglas instead. While plotting to seduce Douglas, and accusing Dan of jealousy to make him le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walking Happy
''Walking Happy'' is a musical with music by Jimmy Van Heusen, lyrics by Sammy Cahn and book by Roger O. Hirson and Ketti Frings. The story is based on the 1916 play '' Hobson's Choice'' by Harold Brighouse. The musical was nominated for six Tony Awards, including Best Musical. Production history The production opened on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on November 26, 1966 and ran for 161 performances. Directed by Cy Feuer with choreography by Danny Daniels. Conductor Herbert Grossman served as Music Director. The original cast recording was released by Angel Records in 1966. Plot synopsis In Lancashire, England in 1880 the men of the town gather in the local pub, with much drinking. The widower Henry Hobson, owner of a boot shop, has three daughters, and he wishes them to marry. The local leader of the temperance league, George Beenstock, has two sons. The two younger Hobson daughters flirt with the Beenstock sons, while Hobson tells his eldest daughter Maggie that h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Los Angeles Times
The ''Los Angeles Times'' is an American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California, in 1881. Based in the Greater Los Angeles city of El Segundo since 2018, it is the sixth-largest newspaper in the U.S. and the largest in the Western United States with a print circulation of 118,760. It has 500,000 online subscribers, the fifth-largest among U.S. newspapers. Owned by Patrick Soon-Shiong and published by California Times, the paper has won over 40 Pulitzer Prizes since its founding. In the 19th century, the paper developed a reputation for civic boosterism and opposition to labor unions, the latter of which led to the bombing of its headquarters in 1910. The paper's profile grew substantially in the 1960s under publisher Otis Chandler, who adopted a more national focus. As with other regional newspapers in California and the United States, the paper's readership has declined since 2010. It has also been beset by a series of ownership changes, staff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Award
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in Manhattan. The ceremony is usually held in June. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances. One is also given for regional theatre. Several discretionary non-competitive awards are given as well, including a Special Tony Award, the Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre, and the Isabelle Stevenson Award. The awards were founded by theatre producer and director Brock Pemberton. They are named after Antoinette "Tony" Perry, an actress, producer and theatre director who was co-founder and secretary of the American Theatre Wing. The trophy consists of a spinnable medallion, with faces portraying an adaptation of the comedy and tragedy masks, mounted on a black base with a pewter swivel. The rules for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethel Barrymore Theatre
The Ethel Barrymore Theatre is a Broadway theatre, Broadway theater at 243 West 47th Street (Manhattan), 47th Street in the Theater District, Manhattan, Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S. Opened in 1928, it was designed by Herbert J. Krapp in the Elizabethan architecture, Elizabethan, Mediterranean Revival architecture, Mediterranean, and Adam styles for the Shubert family. The theater, named in honor of actress Ethel Barrymore, has 1,058 seats and is operated by the Shubert Organization. Both the facade and the auditorium interior are List of New York City Landmarks, New York City landmarks. The ground-floor facade is made of Rustication (architecture), rusticated blocks of Architectural terracotta, terracotta. The theater's main entrance consists of two archways and a doorway shielded by a Marquee (structure), marquee. The upper stories contain an arched screen made of terracotta, inspired by Roman baths, which is surrounded by white brick. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Look Homeward, Angel (play)
''Look Homeward, Angel'' is a 1957 stage play by the playwright Ketti Frings. The play is based on Thomas Wolfe's 1929 largely autobiographical novel of the same title. Production ''Look Homeward, Angel'' opened on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on November 28, 1957, and ran for a total of 564 performances, closing on April 4, 1959. Directed by George Roy Hill, the cast starred Jo Van Fleet (who replaced Bette Davis during rehearsals after Davis broke her back at her home) and Anthony Perkins."'Look Homeward, Angel' Broadway 1957" playbillvault.com, accessed November 28, 2015 Ketti Frings won the 1958 and the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Look Homeward, Angel
''Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life'' is a 1929 novel by Thomas Wolfe. It is Wolfe's first novel, and is considered a highly autobiographical American coming-of-age story. The character of Eugene Gant is generally believed to be a depiction of Wolfe himself. The novel briefly recounts Eugene's father's early life, but primarily covers the span of time from Eugene's birth in 1900 to his definitive departure from home at the age of 19. The setting is a fictionalization of his home town of Asheville, North Carolina, called Altamont in the novel. A restored version of the original manuscript of ''Look Homeward, Angel'', titled ''O Lost'', was published in 2000. Genesis and publication history Thomas Wolfe's father, William Oliver Wolfe, ordered an angel statue from New York and it was used for years as a porch advertisement at the family monument shop on Patton Avenue (now the site of the Jackson Building). W. O. Wolfe sold the statue to a family in Hendersonville, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Wolfe
Thomas Clayton Wolfe (October 3, 1900 – September 15, 1938) was an American novelist and short story writer. He is known largely for his first novel, '' Look Homeward, Angel'' (1929), and for the short fiction that appeared during the last years of his life. He was one of the pioneers of autobiographical fiction, and along with William Faulkner, he is considered one of the most important authors of the Southern Renaissance within the American literary canon. He has been dubbed "North Carolina's most famous writer". Wolfe wrote four long novels as well as many short stories, dramatic works, and novellas. He is known for mixing highly original, poetic, rhapsodic, and impressionistic prose with autobiographical writing. His books, written and published from the 1920s to the 1940s, vividly reflect on the American culture and mores of that period, filtered through Wolfe's sensitive and uncomfortable perspective. After Wolfe's death, Faulkner said that he might have been the grea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foxfire (1955 Film)
''Foxfire'' is a 1955 American drama (genre), drama romance film, romance western (genre), western film released by Universal Pictures, Universal-International, directed by Joseph Pevney, and starring Jane Russell, Jeff Chandler (actor), Jeff Chandler, and Dan Duryea. The movie was loosely based on a Foxfire (novel), best-selling 1950 novel by Anya Seton. ''Foxfire'' is historically notable in that it was the last American film to be shot in three-strip Technicolor, a process that had been supplanted by the coarser-grained and less chromatically saturated, but much cheaper, Eastmancolor single-strip process. Plot After her car breaks down in the Arizona desert, New York (state), New York socialite Amanda Lawrence accepts a ride from Jonathan Dartland, a mining engineer, and his friend Hugh Slater, a doctor with a penchant for Distilled beverage, liquor. Invited to a party hosted by her wealthy mother at the resort where they are staying, "Dart" claims to dislike mothers, especial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Shrike (film)
''The Shrike'' is a 1955 American film noir drama film based on Joseph Kramm's play of the same name. José Ferrer directed and starred in Ketti Frings' screenplay adaptation. Plot Successful stage director Jim Downs (Ferrer) is driven to a mental breakdown by his domineering wife Ann (June Allyson). Institutionalized, he confides in Dr. Bellman (Kendall Clark) and Dr. Barrow ( Isabel Bonner), and he finds a kindred spirit in Charlotte Moore ( Joy Page). Cast * José Ferrer as Jim Downs * June Allyson as Ann Downs * Joy Page as Charlotte Moore * Kendall Clark as Dr. Bellman * Isabel Bonner as Dr. Barrow * Will Kuluva as Ankoritis * Joe Comadore as Major * Billy M. Greene as Schloss * Leigh Whipper as Mr. Carlisle * Richard Benedict as Gregory * Mary Bell as Miss Wingate * Martin Newman as Carlos O'Brien * Herbie Faye as Tager * Somer Alberg as Dr. Schlesinger * Jay Barney as Dr. Kramer * Edward C. Platt as Harry Downs * Fay Morley as Jennifer Logan * Jacqueline de W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
About Mrs
About may refer to: * About (surname) * About.com, an online source for original information and advice * about.me, a personal web hosting service * About URI scheme, an internal URI scheme * About box, a dialog box that displays information related to a computer software * About equal sign, symbol used to indicate values are approximately equal See also * About Face (other) * About Last Night (other) * About Time (other) * About us (other) About us may refer to: *About Us (novel), ''About Us'' (novel), 1967 a novel by Chester Aaron *About Us (song), "About Us" (song), a 2007 song by Brooke Hogan *About Us (album), ''About Us'' (album), a 2019 album by Australian pop singer, G Flip * ... * About You (other) * '' about to'', one of the future constructions in English grammar * {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
