Ketti Frings

Katherine "Ketti" Frings (birth name: Katherine Hartley; born February 28, 1909 in Columbus , Ohio ; † February 11, 1981 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American screenwriter and playwright who worked in 1958 for the play Look Homeward, Angel , an adaptation of Thomas Wolfe 's novel of the same name , which won the Pulitzer Prize for Theater .

Life

A native of Irish - Scottish immigrant families , Katherine Taylor worked first as a copywriter and then as a public relations agent before writing radio broadcasts and responses for actors in fan magazines under the pseudonym Anita Kilgore . In 1939 she married from Germany coming boxer and artist agent Kurt Frings , a nephew of the late Archbishop of Cologne and Cardinal Joseph Frings .

In the following years she worked under the stage name Ketti Frings and wrote scripts and templates for almost twenty films such as 1941 for Das goldene Tor (original title Hold back the dawn ) by Mitchell Leisen based on her play Memo to a Movie Producer . Other well-known films based on scripts written by her were criminal case Thelma Jordon (1950) by Robert Siodmak and Kehr zurück, little Sheba (1952) by Daniel Mann .

She had her greatest success with Look Homeward, Angel , an adaptation of Thomas Wolfes novel of the same name, for which she received the Pulitzer Prize for Theater in 1958 and was nominated for the Tony Award for best play . She was also named "Woman of the Year" by the Los Angeles Times newspaper . For the template for the musical Walking Happy she was nominated together with Roger O. Hirson for the Tony Award for the best musical in 1967 .

Dramas and other publications

personal data
SURNAME	Frings, Ketti
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hartley, Katherine (maiden name); Kilgore, Anita (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American playwright and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH	February 28, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH	Columbus , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH	February 11, 1981
Place of death	Los Angeles , California