Marc Connelly (1890–1980)
Author of The Green Pastures
About the Author
Image credit: Photo by Carl Van Vechten, May 17, 1937 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number, LC-USZ62-103960)
Works by Marc Connelly
Associated Works
The Vicious Circle: Mystery and Crime Stories by Members of the Algonquin Round Table (2007) — Contributor — 99 copies, 1 review
Three Plays About Business in America: The Adding Machine, Beggar on Horseback, All My Sons (1969) — Contributor — 40 copies, 1 review
25 best plays of the Modern American Theatre : Early Series : 1916-1929 (1949) — Contributor — 31 copies
To the Queen's Taste: The First Supplement to 101 Years Entertainment Consisting of the Best Stories Published in the First Four Years of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (1946) — Contributor — 28 copies
Great American Short Stories: O. Henry Memorial Prize Winning Stories, 1919-1934 (1935) — Contributor — 11 copies, 1 review
Longer Plays By Modern Authors. Beau Brummell; Copperhea; Dulcy; Intimate Strangers; (1922) — Contributor — 6 copies
50 Best Plays of the American Theatre, Volume 1 — Contributor — 2 copies
The Ethnic Image in Modern American Literature, 1900-1950, Volumes 1-2 (1984) — Contributor — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Connelly, Marcus Cook
- Other names
- Connelly, Marc (byname)
- Birthdate
- 1890-12-13
- Date of death
- 1980-12-21
- Gender
- male
- Occupations
- playwright
film director
producer
performer
lyricist - Organizations
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1935)
Algonquin Round Table - Awards and honors
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1930)
- Relationships
- Hurlock, Madeline (wife, 1930-1935)
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- McKeesport, Pennsylvania, USA
- Places of residence
- New York, New York, USA
- Place of death
- New York, New York, USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- New York, USA
Members
Reviews
To the modern taste this play is culturally appropriated, and very condescending. However, as it was at its time, quite a groundbreaker. It was produced on Broadway in 1930, and had the first all--black cast that area had seen. it won a pulitzer, and was often discussed as a worthy rendition of rural black culture a step above that of the Uncle Remus stories of Chandler. It was amusing to the 16 year -old me.
A witch tries to sabotage the happiness of her enemy's descendant.
4/4 (Great).
Veronica Lake playing a joyfully chaotic character is an easy sell for me. A lot about this movie is clunky, but I don't care, it's fun.
(Dec. 2020)
4/4 (Great).
Veronica Lake playing a joyfully chaotic character is an easy sell for me. A lot about this movie is clunky, but I don't care, it's fun.
(Dec. 2020)
The green pastures : A fable suggested by Roark Bradford's southern sketches "Ol' Man Adam an' his chillun" by Marc Connelly
Talk about politically incorrect! There is absolutely no way, no how, that such a work could be written, let alone staged, in this day and age. Even its affectionate qualities would be vilified as unbearably patronizing, and justly so, let me hastily add. And yet, to experience it today sets to bubbling pools of pathos laced with humor that lie deep.
The movie introduces Rudyard Kipling's book no-one reads anymore AND is a thorough depiction (quasi-documentary) of the Great Banks sail-powered fishery industry based on schooners with dories (small, open boats used for fishing and transporting fish back to the schooners) AND a tearjerker to boot.
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Statistics
- Works
- 13
- Also by
- 30
- Members
- 311
- Popularity
- #75,819
- Rating
- 3.6
- Reviews
- 9
- ISBNs
- 21
- Languages
- 1
