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* Our Town ( 1938 ) — won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama
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There was also the McDonald's Our Town Story project in which each Local Education Authority in the UK was invited to perform a show of their devising which characterised their area and its people.
In the same year, Newman co-starred with Eva Marie Saint and Frank Sinatra in a live — and color — television broadcast of Our Town, a musical adaptation of Thornton Wilder's stage play.
In 2003, he appeared in a Broadway revival of Wilder's Our Town, receiving his first Tony Award nomination for his performance.
A town drunk who appears in Our Town by Thornton Wilder is perhaps the most often seen example of this version of the character.
He won three Pulitzer Prizes — for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and for the two plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth — and a U. S. National Book Award for the novel The Eighth Day.
In 1938 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Our Town, and he won the prize again in 1942 for his play The Skin of Our Teeth.
Wilder was the author of Our Town, a popular play ( and later film ) set in fictional Grover's Corners, New Hampshire.
Our Town employs a choric narrator called the " Stage Manager " and a minimalist set to underscore the human experience.
The third act of Our Town was famously drafted after a long walk, during a brief affair with Steward in Zurich, Switzerland.
In 1975 he played the Stage Manager in Our Town at the American Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford, Connecticut.
In 1946, the Soviet Union prevented a production of Our Town in the Russian sector of occupied Berlin " on the grounds that the drama is too depressing and could inspire a German suicide wave.
Our Town &# 39 ; s narrator, the Stage Manager, is completely aware of his relationship with the audience, leaving him free to break the fourth wall and address them directly.
* Our Town ( 1940 film ), adaptation starring Martha Scott as Emily and William Holden as George Gibbs, with a musical score by Aaron Copland.
* Our Town ( 1940 radio ), on May 6, 1940, a radio version was performed by many of the same film actors for Lux Radio Theater.
* Our Town ( television ), a live musical 1955 TV adaptation on Producers ' Showcase starring Frank Sinatra as the Stage Manager, Paul Newman as George Gibbs, and Eva Marie Saint as Emily.
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Our last joint venture, Sainted Lady, a deeply religious film based on the life of Mother Cabrini, and timed so that its release date would coincide with the beatification of America's first saint in November, 1938, was a fiasco from start to finish.
Cardonald has three churches: Cardonald Parish Church ( Church of Scotland ) ( built 1889 ), Hillington Park ( Church of Scotland ) and Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church ( built 1938 ).
Following the 1938 Our Gang short Came the Brawn, McFarland " retired " from Our Gang, beginning a personal appearance tour.
Richardson's film appearances include Things to Come ( 1936 ), The Citadel ( 1938 ), The Fallen Idol ( 1948 ), The Heiress ( 1949 ; his first nomination for an Academy Award ), Richard III ( 1955 ; playing Buckingham to Olivier's Richard ), Our Man in Havana ( 1959 ; with Alec Guinness and Noël Coward ), Doctor Zhivago ( 1965 ), and Oh!
In 1938 she made her Broadway debut in the original staging of Thornton Wilder's play Our Town as Emily Webb, the tragic young woman who dies in childbirth.
Following her high school graduation in 1938, she went to New York, changed her name to " Teresa Wright ", and was hired as understudy to Dorothy McGuire and Martha Scott for the role of Emily in Thornton Wilder's stage production of Our Town at Henry Miller's Theatre.
In 1938 his son, Frederick C. Kendall published Henry Kendall, His Later Years, self-described as " A Refutation of Mrs Hamilton-Grey's book Kendall Our God-made Chief ".
* Thornton Wilder's 1938 Pulitzer Prize winning play, Our Town, refers to Lake Winnipesaukee at the beginning of Act III.
In May 1938, Roach ended his distribution contract with MGM, selling them the production rights to and actors ' contracts for Our Gang in the process, and signed with United Artists.
Many significant occasions have been celebrated here, including the Pilgrimage of Catholic Youth ( 1938 ), the Cross Carrying Pilgrimages ( since 1948 ), and the Crowning of Our Lady ( Marian year 1954 and 1988 ).
His 1938 book Our Battle, Being One Man's Answer to " My Battle " by Adolf Hitler earned him the respect of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in whose 1940 presidential campaign he worked, calling on US-Americans
The Little Rascals refers primarily to the television package of producer Hal Roach's Our Gang theatrical short film comedies, specifically those made between 1929 and 1938.
Switzer ( right ) as " Alfalfa " in Our Gang Follies of 1938, with fellow Our Gang cast members George McFarland | George " Spanky " McFarland and Darla Hood.
The production rights for Our Gang were sold to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1938, and the first two years ' worth of MGM-produced series entries focused heavily on the Alfalfa character and his family.
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" Human life is sacred — all men must recognize that fact ," Our predecessor Pope John XXIII recalled.
Our intuition says that no observer can be in a mixture of states — yet the cat, it seems from the thought experiment, can be such a mixture.
* " Titanium: Our Next Major Metal ", Popular Science, October 1950 — one of first general public detailed articles on Titanium
* c. 1900: Our most lively impression is that the sun is there assumed to be of the feminine gender — Henry James, Essays on Literature.
" Kissing the Cross brings blessing and happiness ; people kiss the image of Our Lady and the pictures and statues of saints — not only their pictures, " but even their relics are kissed ," notes Nyrop.
Laforgue put three of the " complaints " of his first published volume of poems ( 1885 ) into " Lord " Pierrot's mouth — and dedicated his next book, The Imitation of Our Lady the Moon ( 1886 ), completely to Pierrot and his world.
* British — Burnaby, Davy: The Co-Optimists ( revue of 1921 — and revised continually up to 1926 — played in Pierrot costumes, with music and lyrics by various entertainers ; filmed in 1929 ); Cannan, Gilbert: Pierrot in Hospital ( 1923 ); " Cryptos " and James T. Tanner: Our Miss Gibbs ( 1909 ; musical comedy played in Pierrot costumes ); Down, Oliphant: The Maker of Dreams ( 1912 ); Drinkwater, John: The Only Legend: A Masque of the Scarlet Pierrot ( 1913 ; music by James Brier ); Housman, Laurence, and Harley Granville-Barker: Prunella: or, Love in a Dutch Garden ( 1906, rev.
* South Korean — Elizabeth: " Ppappa Pierrot " ( 2011 ); JYJ: " Pierrot ", from Their Rooms " Our Story " ( 2011 ); Lee Hyun Do: " Pierrot " ( 1999 ; featured in music video game Pump It Up ); Maximum Crew: Pierrot ( 2009 ); Outsider: " Pierrot's Tear ", from Vol. 2 Maestro ( 2009 ), " Pierrot's Tear II ", from Vol. 2. 5 The Outsider ( 2010 ), " Pierrot's Tear III ", from Vol. 3 Hero ( 2010 )
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