Mary Chase

This article is about the writer Mary Chase. For the writer and professor, see Mary Ellen Chase .

Mary Chase

Mary McDonough Coyle Chase (born February 25, 1907 in Denver , Colorado , † October 20, 1981 there ) was an American writer.

Her mother was of Irish descent, which may explain the author's love for Irish mythology. After university and working as a journalist, she married the newspaper reporter Robert Lamont Chase in 1928. As a housewife and mother, she began writing plays.

After two hardly noticed plays, she achieved her breakthrough in 1944 with Mein Freund Harvey , for which she received the " Pulitzer Prize for Theater" in 1945 . In New York alone the piece was performed 1775 times. She wrote the screenplay for two film adaptations (1950 and 1972).

Works

• Me, third. A Farce in Three Acts , Denver around 1936
• Now You've Done It , 1937
• Sorority House. A Comedy in Three Acts , New York and London around 1939
• Too Much Business. A Comedy in One Act , New York, Los Angeles and London 1940
• The White Rabbit. A Comedy in Three Acts, Five Scenes , New York around 1943 (later under the title Harvey. A Comedy , New York 1944; Ger. My friend Harvey , around 1950)
• The Next Half Hour , 1945
• Mrs. McThing. A Play , New York 1952
• Bernardine. A Comedy in Two Acts , 1952 (in press New York 1953)
• together with Harold Berson (pictures): Loretta Mason Potts , Philadelphia around 1958
• Midgie Purvis. A Comedy in Two Acts and Seven Scenes , 1961 (in press New York 1963)
• The Wicked Pigeon Ladies in the Garden , New York 1968
• Cocktails with Mimi , New York 1974
• The Wicked, Wicked Ladies in the Haunted House , New York 2003

Web links

• Literature by and about Mary Chase in the catalog of the German National Library