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Frieda Fishbein
Frieda Fishbein (born 7 March 1886, Romania, d. 6 September 1981, Brooklyn) was a Romanian American theatrical, film, television and literary agent for writers including Elmer Rice, George S Kaufman, Moss Hart, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Anouilh and Colleen McCullough. Personal Life and Education Fishbein was born in Romania, the oldest daughter of Molly and Osias Fishbein. The family emigrated to America in 1901. She was educated in the New Orleans public school system, then spent the majority of her adult life in New York City, initially Manhattan, moving to Brooklyn in later life. Work Fishbein worked as a stenographer in New Orleans in 1903. After moving to New York City, her first job was as a secretary in a movie company. In 1910 she was again working as a stenographer. In 1929 Fishbein established the ''Frieda Fishbein Agency'', a literary and theatrical agency, in New York City. In the same year, the playwright, director and producer Dore Schary described her as having †... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romania
Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Moldova to the east, and the Black Sea to the southeast. It has a predominantly Temperate climate, temperate-continental climate, and an area of , with a population of around 19 million. Romania is the List of European countries by area, twelfth-largest country in Europe and the List of European Union member states by population, sixth-most populous member state of the European Union. Its capital and largest city is Bucharest, followed by Iași, Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Constanța, Craiova, Brașov, and Galați. The Danube, Europe's second-longest river, rises in Germany's Black Forest and flows in a southeasterly direction for , before emptying into Romania's Danube Delta. The Carpathian Mountains, which cross Roma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pulitzer Prize For Drama
The Pulitzer Prize for Drama is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It is one of the original Pulitzers, for the program was inaugurated in 1917 with seven prizes, four of which were awarded that year."1917 Winners" The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-12-20. (No Drama prize was given, however, so that one was inaugurated in 1918, in a sense.) It recognizes a theatrical work staged in the U.S. during the preceding calendar year. Until 2007, eligibility for the Drama Prize ran from March 1 to March 2 to reflect the Broadway "season" rather than the calendar year that governed most other Pulitzer Prizes. The drama jury, which consists of one academic and four critics, attends plays in |
Act One (play)
''Act One'' is a play written by James Lapine, based on Moss Hart's 1959 autobiography of the same title. The play premiered on Broadway in 2014. Production ''Act One'' premiered on Broadway at the Vivian Beaumont Theater in Lincoln Center on March 20, 2014 (previews), officially on April 17, 2014. Directed by James Lapine, the cast featured Santino Fontana, Tony Shalhoub (as George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart) and Andrea Martin as Hart's theatrical agent Frieda Fishbein. Martin played three women in Moss Hart's life; Shalhoub also played three roles: as the older Hart, Moss's father, and George S. Kaufman.Brantley, Ben"Several Moss Harts Are in 'Act One,' at Lincoln Center"''The New York Times'', April 17, 2014 (in print April 18, 2014, p. C1) The play closed on June 15, 2014 after 67 performances and 31 previews. It was filmed to be shown on the PBS television program "Live from Lincoln Center." The filmed production was first televised on PBS in November 2015 & then uploaded to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Thorn Birds
''The Thorn Birds'' is a 1977 novel by Australian author Colleen McCullough. Set primarily on Drogheda – a fictional sheep station in the Australian Outback named after Drogheda, Ireland, the story focuses on the Cleary family and spans 1915 to 1969. The novel is the best-selling book in Australian history, and has sold over 33 million copies worldwide. The novel was also adapted into an eponymous television miniseries; during its 27–30 March 1983 run, it became the United States' second-highest rated miniseries of all time, behind ''Roots''. Subsequently, a 1996 miniseries entitled '' The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years'' filled in a gap of 19 years in the middle of the novel. It was criticized for inconsistencies with the original series. The novel was also adapted into a musical in 2009, '' The Thorn Birds Musical''. In 2022, ''The Thorn Birds'' was included on the "Big Jubilee Read" list of 70 books by Commonwealth authors, selected to celebrate the Platinum Jubile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim (novel)
''Tim'' is a novel by Australian writer Colleen McCullough, published by Harper and Row in 1974. Her literary agent was Frieda Fishbein. It portrays the story of the developing relationship between an older, middle-class woman, Mary Horton, who lives on her own and a handsome, developmentally impaired 24-year-old gardener, Tim Melville, whom she hires. It inspired the 1979 film of the same name, starring Piper Laurie and Mel Gibson and the 1996 film ''Mary & Tim'' starring Candice Bergen and Tom McCarthy Thomas McCarthy (also Tom and Tommy) may refer to: Academia *Thomas A. McCarthy (born 1940), American professor of philosophy *Thomas J. McCarthy (born 1956), American professor of polymer chemistry at the University of Massachusetts *J. Thomas Mc .... IMDb References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alicen White
Alice Margaret Geddes White (28 April 1908 – 3 August 2007), also known as Alicen White, was a British-American writer, playwright, editor, teacher and performer. She was on the staff of Girl Scouts of the USA for over 25 years. Early life and education Alice Margaret Geddes White was born in Carnoustie, Scotland on 28 April 1908 to John F. White, owner of Dundee Flour Mills and Mary White of Providence, RI. She attended the High School of Dundee between 1918 and 1924 until her father's business closed when White was 16 years old. The family moved to Vancouver, Canada, where she attended King George Secondary School. She gained a Bachelor’s degree from the University of British Columbia in 1929, having supported herself with several scholarships, including the University Scholarship for 1930–1931. She earned a Master’s Degree in English Literature from Smith College, Massachusetts then went on to further graduate studies at Columbia University, New York. She studied ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Burgett
Donald R. Burgett (April 5, 1925 – March 23, 2017) was a writer and a former World War II paratrooper. He was among the Airborne troopers who landed in Normandy early on the morning of D-Day. He was a member of the 101st Airborne Division, ("The Screaming Eagles"), and the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment. Burgett served in Company A, 1st Battalion, 506th PIR as both a rifleman and a machine-gunner. Life Burgett was born in Detroit, Michigan, and grew up on the city's west side. In the opening paragraph of his memoir ''Currahee!'', he wrote that he was determined to follow his older brother Elmer, who had joined the Paratroops in 1942. Burgett volunteered to be called up as soon as he turned 18 the following year. On May 3, 1943, he reported to the Induction Center where he officially volunteered for the Paratroops, signing the statement "I do hereby volunteer to jump from a plane, while in flight and land on the ground via parachute." He went through Basic Combat Training in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katherine Hoskins
Katherine de Montalant Hoskins (May 25, 1909 – May 26, 1988) was an American poet, short story writer, and playwright. Life Born in Indian Head, Maryland to Katherine Peck Lackey and U.S. Navy Rear-Admiral Henry Ellis Lackey, Katherine was home-schooled until she was eleven. She attended Smith College, graduating with honors in 1931. In 1935, she married Albert L. Hoskins, Jr., a World War I veteran who worked as a probation officer in Boston; together they had one daughter, Camilla. Although Hoskins did not publicize herself or her work, she corresponded with many prominent contemporaries (including Robert Lowell, John Crowe Ransom, and Wallace Stevens), all of whom regarded her work highly. Louis Simpson called her carefully crafted verse "superb." Robert Lowell was effusive in his jacket-cover praise for ''Excursions'' (1967), exclaiming "How much better she is than so many poets very much more famous!" Writing in ''The New York Times Book Review'', William Meredith sounded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherwood Anderson
Sherwood Anderson (September 13, 1876 – March 8, 1941) was an American novelist and short story writer, known for subjective and self-revealing works. Self-educated, he rose to become a successful copywriter and business owner in Cleveland and Elyria, Ohio. In 1912, Anderson had a nervous breakdown that led him to abandon his business and family to become a writer. At the time, he moved to Chicago and was eventually married three additional times. His most enduring work is the short-story sequence ''Winesburg, Ohio,'' which launched his career. Throughout the 1920s, Anderson published several short story collections, novels, memoirs, books of essays, and a book of poetry. Though his books sold reasonably well, '' Dark Laughter'' (1925), a novel inspired by Anderson's time in New Orleans during the 1920s, was his only bestseller. Early life Sherwood Berton Anderson was born on September 13, 1876, at 142 S. Lafayette Street in Camden, Ohio, a farming town with a population of ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Kenna
Peter Joseph Kenna (18 March 193029 November 1987) was an Australian playwright, radio actor and screenwriter. He has been called "a quasi-legendary figure in Australian theatre, never quite fashionable, but never quite forgotten either." Biography Early life Born in Balmain, New South Wales, Kenna left school at fourteen and took up various jobs. He started working in the theatre by participating in concert parties at the camps in Sydney during World War II. Career His first play was written when he was 21. In 1959. the play ''The Slaughter of St Teresa's Day'' was produced in Sydney, based on the life of Tilly Devine. The play was turned into a television drama in 1960. He wrote the screenplay for the film ''The Good Wife'' (also known as ''The Umbrella Woman'') produced in 1987, a World War II drama about a man, his wife and his brother. The film starred Bryan Brown, Rachel Ward and Sam Neill. Rachel Ward won the Tokyo International Film Festival award for best actress for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Bowles
Paul Frederic Bowles (; December 30, 1910November 18, 1999) was an American expatriate composer, author, and translator. He became associated with the Moroccan city of Tangier, where he settled in 1947 and lived for 52 years to the end of his life. Following a cultured middle-class upbringing in New York City, during which he displayed a talent for music and writing, Bowles pursued his education at the University of Virginia before making several trips to Paris in the 1930s. He studied music with Aaron Copland, and in New York wrote music for theatrical productions, as well as other compositions. He achieved critical and popular success with his first novel ''The Sheltering Sky'' (1949), set in French North Africa, which he had visited in 1931. In 1947, Bowles settled in Tangier, at that time in the Tangier International Zone, and his wife Jane Bowles followed in 1948. Except for winters spent in Ceylon during the early 1950s, Tangier was Bowles's home for the remainder of his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Gantillon
Simon Gantillon (7 January 1887 in Lyon – 9 September 1961 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a 20th-century French screenwriter and playwright. Filmography ; Screenwriter * 1932: '' Sergeant X'' by Vladimir Strizhevsky * 1938: ''Gibraltar'' by Fedor Ozep * 1939: '' Personal Column'' by Robert Siodmak * 1945: '' Mission spéciale'' by Maurice de Canonge * 1947: '' La Figure de proue'' by Christian Stengel * 1947: '' Rumours'' by Jacques Daroy * 1947: ''Love Around the House'' by Pierre de Hérain (dialoguist only) * 1947: ''Lured'' by Douglas Sirk * 1949: ''Maya'' by Raymond BernardAdaptation of the Simon Gantillon's play created in 1924, mise en scène by Gaston Baty Gaston Baty (26 May 1885 – 13 October 1952), whose full name was Jean-Baptiste-Marie-Gaston Baty, was a French playwright and theatre director. He was born in Pélussin, Loire, France. Career In 1921, Baty formed his own company ''Les Compag ... and performed more than one thousand times: "It is the biggest succes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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