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When Hollywood purchased The Little Foxes and The Searching Wind, Hellman wrote the screenplays. She also adapted Guy Bolton's The Dark Angel (1935), Sidney Kings- ley's Dead End (1937), and Horton Foote's The Chase (1966) for the ...
When Hollywood purchased The Little Foxes and The Searching Wind, Hellman wrote the screenplays. She also adapted Guy Bolton's The Dark Angel (1935), Sidney Kings- ley's Dead End (1937), and Horton Foote's The Chase (1966) for the ...
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plays in an age of televised war and political assassinations, campus unrest and black rage, seemed "frivolous," to use Cassie's term in The Searching Wind. Hellman did not join the young at the barricades; instead, she taught them, ...
plays in an age of televised war and political assassinations, campus unrest and black rage, seemed "frivolous," to use Cassie's term in The Searching Wind. Hellman did not join the young at the barricades; instead, she taught them, ...
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... the best of which (The Children's Hour, The Little Foxes, The Searching Wind, Another Part of the Forest, and The Lark, which can be thought of as hers rather than Anouilh's) are models of dramaturgy and worthy of revival.
... the best of which (The Children's Hour, The Little Foxes, The Searching Wind, Another Part of the Forest, and The Lark, which can be thought of as hers rather than Anouilh's) are models of dramaturgy and worthy of revival.
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| Title | American writers: a collection of literary biographies. Jane Addams to Sidney Lanier |
| Editor | Leonard Unger |
| Publisher | Charles Scribner's sons, 1979 |
| ISBN | 0684157977, 9780684157979 |
| Length | 373 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / American / General |
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