Yahoo Web Search

Search results

  1. Marcus Cook Connelly[citation needed] (December 13, 1890 – December 21, 1980) was an American playwright, director, producer, performer, and lyricist. He was a key member of the Algonquin Round Table, and received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1930.

  2. Marc Connelly was an American playwright, journalist, teacher, actor, and director, best-known for Green Pastures (a folk version of the Old Testament dramatized through the lives of blacks of the southern United States) and for the comedies that he wrote with George S. Kaufman.

    • The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
  3. www.imdb.com › name › nm0175091Marc Connelly - IMDb

    Marc Connelly, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, is best known as being one of the leading wits of the Algonquin Round Table and for being a collaborator with George S. Kaufman, with whom he wrote many plays, including Merton of the Movies (1947).

    • January 1, 1
    • McKeesport, Pennsylvania, USA
    • January 1, 1
    • New York City, New York, USA
  4. Marc Connelly, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, is best known as being one of the leading wits of the Algonquin Round Table and for being a collaborator with George S. Kaufman, with whom he wrote many plays, including Merton of the Movies (1947).

    • December 13, 1890
    • December 21, 1980
  5. The Green Pastures is a play written in 1930 by Marc Connelly adapted from Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun (1928), a collection of stories written by Roark Bradford. The play was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1930. It had the first all-black Broadway cast.

  6. Dec 22, 1980 · Marc Connelly, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Green Pastures," one of the great plays of the American theater, died yesterday at St. Luke's Hospital in Manhattan. He was 90 years old...

  7. U.S. dramatist Marc Connelly was known for collaborating on several comedies with George S. Kaufman. On his own, he is perhaps best remembered for Green Pastures (1930), a folk version of the Old Testament dramatized through the lives of blacks of the southern United States.