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Lillian Hellman
Lillian Hellman 1905-84, American dramatist, b. New Orleans. Her plays, although often melodramatic, are marked by intelligence and craftsmanship. The Children's Hour (1934), her first drama, concerns the devastating effects of a child's malicious charge of lesbianism against two of her teachers.... Read more |
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The Little Foxes
THE LITTLE FOXES USA, 1941 Director:William Wyler Production:RKO/Radio Pictures; black and white, 35mm; running time: 115 minutes. Released 1941. Producer:Samuel Goldwyn; screenplay:Lillian Hellman; additional scenes and dialogue:Dorothy Parker,... Read more |
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Candide
Candide (1956), a musical satire by Lillian Hellman (book), Leonard Bernstein (music), Richard Wilbur, John Latouche, Dorothy Parker (lyrics). [Martin Beck Theatre, 73 perf.] Tutored by the incorrigibly optimistic Doctor Pangloss ( Max Adrian) who feels we live in “The Best of All... Read more |
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Dashiell Hammett
Dashiell Hammett , 1894-1961, American writer, b. St. Mary's co., Maryland. After a variety of jobs, including several years working as a detective for the Pinkerton agency, beginning in the early 1920s he found success as a writer, largely originating the "hard-boiled" school of detective... Read more |
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The Childrens Hour
Children's Hour, The (1934), a drama by Lillian Hellman. [Maxine Elliott's Theatre, 691 perf.] At the Wright‐Dobie School, teacher Karen Wright ( Katherine Emery) finds she must punish the young student Mary Tilford ( Florence McGee), a habitual liar, by rescinding her privileges. Without... Read more |
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Richard Wilbur
Richard Wilbur 1921-, American poet and translator, b. New York City, grad. Amherst (B.A., 1942) and Harvard (M.A., 1947). A skillful craftsman who writes gracefully in traditional verse forms, Wilbur is always original, generally affirmative in his view of the world, and can be profound and witty,... Read more |
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Hellman, Lillian
Hellman, Lillian (1905–84), playwright. The New...teachers falsely accused of lesbianism. Hellman's labor drama, Days to Come (1936...Scoundrel Time (1976). Biography: Lillian Hellman: The Image, The Woman, William... |
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Little Foxes, The
...Foxes, The (1939), a drama by Lillian Hellman. [National Theatre, 410 perf.] The...finest performance. Comparing it to Hellman's earlier play The Children's Hour...in 1997 with Stockard Channing. Hellman returned to the Hubbard family... |
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Wynyard, Diana
...s No Time for Comedy (1941), and Sara Muller in Lillian Hellman's Watch on the Rhine (1942) before touring for...Tennessee Williams's Camino Real (1957), and Lillian Hellman's Toys in the Attic (1960). Her last appearances... |
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Martin Beck Theatre
...Anderson's Winterset (1935) and High Tor (1937), Lillian Hellman's Watch on the Rhine (1941), O'Neill's The...Corpus (1975) with Donald Sinden, a revival of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes (1981) starring Elizabeth Taylor... |
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Stapleton, (Lois) Maureen
...The Cold Wind and the Warm (1958) and Carrie in Lillian Hellman's Toys in the Attic (1960) were followed in 1965...Hubbard to Elizabeth Taylor's Regina in a revival of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes. |
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Toys in the Attic
Toys in the Attic (1960), a play by Lillian Hellman. [Hudson Theatre, 556 perf.; NYDCC Award.] Carrie...promise to start again. The Kermit Bloomgarden production was Hellman's last hit before she abandoned the theatre. It displayed... |
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Caldwell, Zoë (Ada)
...Slapstick Tragedy (1966) and opera diva Maria Callas in Master Class (1995). In addition to playing Lillian Hellman in a one‐woman show, Lillian (1986), Caldwell has also directed plays, most memorably Park Your Car in Harvard Yard (1991... |
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Caldwell, Zoë
...Rattigan's A Bequest to the Nation. She also played Medea in Euripides' play (NY, 1982) and Lillian Hellman in William Luce's one-woman play Lillian (NY, 1986). One of the most eminent actresses to emerge from Australia, she brings a contemporary... |
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Ethel Barrymore Theatre
...Later came the double bill Noël Coward in Two Keys (1974) with Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn, David Mamet's American Buffalo (1977), Rabe's Hurlyburly (1984), and Lillian (1986), based on Lillian Hellman's writings. |
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Blechman, Burt
...include the fantastic and satirical treatment of Jewish family life How Much? (1962), adapted for the stage by Lillian Hellman as My Father, My Mother and Me (1963); The War of Camp Omongo (1963), satirizing the values of middle‐class... |
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Blitzstein, Marc
...though his adaptation of Brecht's Threepenny Opera (1952) was acclaimed and his Regina (1949), an adaptation of Lillian Hellman's play The Little Foxes, has been successfully revived. Served 1942–5 with US Air Force in Eng. and comp... |
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Regina
Regina. Opera in 3 acts by Blitzstein to his own lib. based on Lillian Hellman's play The Little Foxes. Comp. 1946–9. Prod. NY 1949, Glasgow 1991. |
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Candide
...Comic operetta in 2 acts by Leonard Bernstein, based on Voltaire's novel (1759) with lib. (book) originally by Lillian Hellman and lyrics by Richard Wilbur, with some later additions by John La Touche, Dorothy Parker, and Bernstein. F... |
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Lillian Hellman: The Party's Over
LILLIAN HELLMAN:Her Legend and Her Legacy By Carl...But Rollyson's refusal to take Hellman's politics seriously drains the book...William Wright's 1986 biography Lillian Hellman, The Image, The Woman is a hundred... |
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Hellman and Hammett: The Legendary Passion of Lillian Hellman and Dashiell...
...But in her memoirs, Hellman wove a beautiful fabric...more complex the pair. Lillian Hellman and Dashiell...question is: How did Hellman manage to steal so much...their affair, "that Lillian Hellman decided, consciously... |
 "The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)")
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SUMMER SPENT WITH LILLIAN HELLMAN YIELDS MEAN MEMOIR.(COMMENTARY)(Review)
...A LIKELY STORY One Summer with Lillian Hellman ROSEMARY MAHONEY Doubleday. 273...Likely Story: One Summer with Lillian Hellman: I hope you age well...bias in this review. My aunt was Lillian Hellman's private secretary for ... |
 "The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)")
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LILLIAN HELLMAN'S COMPLEXITIES
LILLY. Reminiscences of Lillian Hellman. By Peter Feibleman. Morrow. 364 pp. $19.95. Illustrated. Lillian Hellman was a fine playwright, a better memoirist and a great manipulator... |
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Intruding on Lillian. (playwright Lillian Hellman)
...his relationship with playwright Lillian Hellman. How does a strong-willed...I'm not talking about sex. Lillian Hellman was loaded with sex appeal. That...I did a lot of the same things Lillian Hellman did. She was a heavy... |
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"These Three": the influence of William Wyler and Gregg Toland on Lillian...
...association with Hollywood was Lillian Hellman. Hellman represents a challenge...Angel. Of the Wyler-Toland-Hellman triumvirate, assembled by Goldwyn...had significant influence on Lillian Hellman's writing for the stage. ... |
 "The Economist (US)")
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Sharp-tongued woman; American 20th-century writing.(Lillian Hellman: A Life...
LILLIAN HELLMAN, an American writer born...She shows no grasp of Hellman's times and writes atrociously...own Ms Martinson never met Hellman. Had she experienced the...were not written on oath. Lillian Hellman: A Life with ... |
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Beat the devil. (Who was Lillian Hellman's Julia) (column)
...oddity of the whole Julia saga and the behavior of Lillian Hellman. How to explain it? I think the life of yet another...whose deficits she helped pay off for many years. Lillian Hellman published Pentimento, subtitled A Book of Portraits... |
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MY MOTHER, MYSELF- AND LILLIAN HELLMAN In toppling her icon, a writer...
...housekeeper and cook for the writer Lillian Hellman, whom she had admired for "her...17." And while the summer with Hellman provided "the catalyst for writing...mother who urged Mahoney to write to Hellman about working for her on the Vineyard... |
 "The Independent (London, England)")
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Arts: The mother of invention Lillian Hellman's accounts of her life became...
...amused quite a few people when it featured Lillian Hellman. For it was well known by then that Hellman, the author of The Little Foxes (which...of a piece of work than any of her plays. Hellman's account of her life, published in three... |
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