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Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1930) Spouse. Madeline Hurlock. . . ( m. 1930; div. 1935) . 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.
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.
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Marc Connelly was a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and a member of the Algonquin Round Table. He wrote many plays with George S. Kaufman, such as The Green Pastures, and also adapted them for film and TV.
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- McKeesport, Pennsylvania, USA
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- New York City, New York, USA
Marc Connelly. Writer: Captains Courageous. 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). His Broadway career spanned 65 years, from 1915, when he got his first writing credit on a Broadway play for contributing lyrics to...
- December 13, 1890
- December 21, 1980
Marc Connelly's career as a collaborator with George S. Kaufman lasted about five years, from 1920 to 1924. During this time, the two wrote at least four plays of permanent interest in the ...
Marc Connelly is known primarily for his plays, but he also wrote many short humorous stories for The New Yorker and other magazines, a number of essays, a novel (A Souvenir from Qam, 1965), and ...
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Biography. Marcus Cook Connelly was born December 13, 1890. The year before, his parents, Patrick Joseph and Mabel Louise Fowler (Cook) Connelly, two touring actors, had settled in McKeesport ...
