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Marc Connelly (Marcus Cook Connelly) (kŏn´əlē), 1890–1981, American dramatist, b. McKeesport, Pa. He is best known for his Pulitzer Prize winning play The Green Pastures (1930), a fantasy of biblical history presented in terms of the religious life of Southern blacks; it was based on Roark Bradford's book Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun (1928).
Marc Connelly: Date premiered: February 12, 1924 () Place premiered: Broadhurst Theatre, New York City: Beggar on Horseback is a 1924 play by George S. Kaufman ...
Marc Connelly was born in 1890 in McKeesport, Pennsylvania. Connelly attended Trinity Hall, in Washington, Pennsylvania, from 1902 to 1907. Connelly was a journalist in Pittsburgh early in his career and went on to be a playwright who is most famous for his Pulitzer Prize winning play The Green Pastures in 1930.
Marc Connelly was an American playwright and screenwriter. He was a member of the Algonquin Round Table alongside Dorothy Parker, Harold Ross, and Alexander Woollcott. Connelly began his career as a journalist, but soon turned to writing plays. His first success was The Green Pastures (1930), for...
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).
Dec 5, 2012 · Connelly, Marc, 1890-1980. Publication date 1929 Topics African Americans, African Americans Publisher New York, Farrar & Rinehart Collection Wellesley_College ...
