Marc Connelly
Marc Connelly , actually Marcus Cook (born December 13, 1890 in McKeesport , Pennsylvania , † December 21, 1980 in New York City , New York ) was an American journalist , playwright and writer .
Life
Marc Connelly was a journalist for the Pittsburgh Sun in Pittsburgh until he moved to New York City. Within a very short time he made the acquaintance of the city's most famous artists, including Dorothy Parker , Robert E. Sherwood , Heywood Broun , Robert Benchley , Alice Duer Miller , Harpo Marx , Jascha Heifetz , Jane Grant , Ruth Hale , George S. Kaufman , Harold Ross , Neysa McMein , Alexander Woollcott , Franklin Pierce Adams , Edna Ferber , Irving Berlin and Bernard Baruch . Connelly was a founding member of what would later become the famous literary circle at the Algonquin Hotel , called the Algonquin Round Table , a loose group of journalists, writers, and actors.
Together with the playwright George Simon Kaufman he wrote several Broadway plays, including Dulcy (1921), Little Old Millersville (1922), Merton of the Movies (1922) and Beggar on Horseback (1924). In 1930 Connelly won the Pulitzer Prize for the drama The Green Pastures , a landmark in American literature and the first African-American Broadway performance in New York.
Filmography (selection)
- script
- 1937: Manuel
- 1942: Reunion in France
- 1942: My Wife, the Witch ( I Married a Witch )
- Literary template
- 1947: Oops, here comes Merton! ( Merton on the Movies )
- 1936: The Green Pastures - also director and screenplay
- actor
- 1957: Lindbergh - My flight over the ocean
- 1959: The longer - the better ( Tall Story )
Awards
- 1930 Pulitzer Prize winner
- 1935 elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
- 1938 Oscar (nominated)
- 1958 Emmy (nominated)
Autobiography
- Marc Connelly: Voices Offstage: A Book of Memoirs , Holt, Rinehart & Winston (1968) ISBN 0-0306-8475-7
Web links
- Marc Connelly in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Members: Marc Connelly. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed February 23, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Connelly, Marc |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cook, Marcus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American journalist, playwright, and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 13, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | McKeesport , Pennsylvania |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 21, 1980 |
| Place of death | New York City , New York |