Philip Barry

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Philip Barry (1931)

Philip Barry (born June 18, 1896 in Rochester , New York , † December 3, 1949 in New York City ) was an American playwright .

life and career

Barry studied at Yale University and also attended workshops at Harvard , in the latter of which he wrote his first piece, A Punch for Judy . From the 1920s he was a regular writer on Broadway , where he quickly became known with his first production You and I (1923), but had to record a few flops in his changeable career.

Although Barry is best known today for his comedies about social etiquette and conflict, he also wrote serious dramas . Most of his pieces were played in affluent society. Many of his pieces were adapted for television between 1930 and 1950 . Barry's best-known play is The Philadelphia Story , whose film version of the same name with Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn became very popular. In 1956, The Top Ten Thousand, a remake starring Grace Kelly . His play Holiday was also filmed twice , first in 1930 and later again with Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant as The Bride's Sister . Many famous actresses like Hepburn, who was also a personal friend of Barry, particularly appreciated his interestingly written female roles.

In 1930 he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters . He died of a heart attack at the age of 53. Brooks Atkinson dedicated a brief review of Barry's work in 1970 in his work Broadway : Barry was not a revolutionary, but in many of his plays a critic of the materialistic American society. Atkinson wrote that Barry may have worked as an author in the wrong lifetime because his didactic and moral writing style was not well received by many of his skeptical contemporaries.

Works

  • A Punch for Judy , 1921
  • You and I , 1923
  • The Youngest , 1924
  • Paris Bound , 1927
  • John , 1927
  • Holiday , 1928
  • Cock Robin , 1928
  • Hotel universe, a play , 1930
  • Tomorrow and Tomorrow , 1931
  • The Kingdom of the Tiger ( The Animal Kingdom ), 1932
  • The Joyous Season , 1934
  • Bright Star , 1935
  • Spring Dance , 1936
  • Here Come the Clowns , 1938
  • The Philadelphia Story , 1939
  • Liberty Jones , 1941
  • Without Love , 1942
  • Foolish Notion , 1945
  • Second Threshold , 1951, completed by Robert Sherwood

Film adaptations of his works

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Philip Barry | American dramatist. Retrieved October 29, 2019 .
  2. ^ Members: Philip Barry. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed February 14, 2019 .
  3. Atkinson, Brooks. Broadway. New York: Atheneum, 1970, pp. 241-242.