George Kelly (writer)
George Edward Kelly (born January 16, 1887 in Philadelphia , † June 18, 1974 in Bryn Mawr , Pennsylvania ) was an American playwright who received the Pulitzer Prize for Theater in 1926 for his play Craig’s Wife .
biography
George Kelly was third youngest of ten children of a family of immigrants from Ireland and the younger brother of Vaudeville - actor Walter Kelly and older brother of Olympic champion in rowing and entrepreneur senior John B. Kelly and uncle of his daughter Grace Kelly , later Princess Grace of Monaco .
In the 1920s he wrote several successful stage works such as The Torchbearers (1922), The Show-Off (1924) and Craig's Wife (1925), for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Theater in 1926. This was filmed several times like 1950 under the title The Liar (1950) with Joan Crawford and Wendell Corey . In the following years Daisy Mayme (1926), Behold, the Bridegroom (1927), The Flattering Word (1929), Maggie the Magnificent (1929), Philip Goes Forth (1931), Reflected Glory (1936) and The Deep Mrs. Sykes (1945). Most recently he wrote the play The Fatal Weakness (1947).
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| SURNAME | Kelly, George |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kelly, George Edward (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 16, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Philadelphia , Pennsylvania |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 18, 1974 |
| Place of death | Bryn Mawr , Pennsylvania |