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George Edward Kelly (January 16, 1887 – June 18, 1974) was an American playwright, screenwriter, director, and actor. He began his career in vaudeville as an actor and sketch writer. He became best known for his satiric comedies, including The Torch-Bearers (1922) and The Show-Off (1924).
Jun 14, 2024 · George Kelly was a playwright, actor, and director whose dramas of the 1920s reflect the foibles of the American middle class with a telling accuracy. Kelly followed his elder brother Walter into vaudeville as an actor, writing his first sketches himself.
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Jun 19, 1974 · George E. Kelly, the Pulitzer Prize‐winning playwright, whose acid comedies and scathing satires delighted Broadway audiences for half a century, died yesterday afternoon at the Bryn Mawr...
George Kelly (I887-I974) became one of America's most distinguished playwrights in the 1920s with The Torch Bearers (1922), The Show-Off (1924), and Craig's Wife (1925), for which he gained the Pulitzer Prize in 1926. Additional plays by Kelly continued to appear on Broadway throughout the next two decades, his last, The Fatal Weakness, in 1946.
Craig's Wife is a 1925 play written by American playwright George Kelly. It won the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and has been adapted for three feature films.
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George Kelly. Writer: Old Hutch. American playwright George Edward Kelly was born in Philadelphia, PA, in 1887. He came from a wealthy and socially prominent "mainline" family--his brother was actor Walter C. Kelly and his niece was Grace Kelly--and was educated in exclusive private schools.
Overview. George Kelly. (1887—1974) Quick Reference. (b. Philadelphia, 16 Jan. 1887; d. Bryn Mawr, Pa., 18 June 1974) Playwright. A member of a noted theatrical family, he was an actor and vaudevillean before turning to writing. ... From: Kelly, George in The Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre » Subjects: Performing arts — Theatre.
