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McClintic, Guthrie
McClintic, Guthrie (1893–1961), director and producer. He was born in Seattle and studied at the University of Washington and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts before making his acting debut in 1913. He first played for New York audiences a year later, appearing in several shows until 1918, when he joined Jessie Bonstelle's stock company. His directing career began after he left to become Winthrop Ames's assistant. McClintic embarked on his own when he produced and directed The Dover Road (1921). Subsequently he directed, and frequently produced, such popular plays as The Shanghai Gesture (1926), Saturday's Children (1927), Brief Moment (1931), Winterset (1935), Ethan Frome (1936), John Gielgud's Hamlet (1936), High Tor (1937), The Star Wagon (1937), Mamba's Daughters (1939), and Key Largo (1939). However, he is most often associated in playgoers' minds with the work he did in conjunction with his wife, Katharine Cornell. He directed her in The Green Hat (1925) and Dishonored Lady (1930), then beginning with The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1931), both directed her in and co‐produced with her all her later plays. Although he was a sensitive, knowing director, he was a prissy, volatile man, who was deftly parodied as Carleton Fitzgerald in Moss Hart's comedy Light Up the Sky. Autobiography: Me and Kit, 1955.
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Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "McClintic, Guthrie." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "McClintic, Guthrie." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-McClinticGuthrie.html Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "McClintic, Guthrie." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-McClinticGuthrie.html |
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McClintic, Guthrie
McClintic, Guthrie (1893–1961), American actor, producer, and director, who was for a time a member of Jessie Bonstelle's stock company in Buffalo and later became assistant stage director to Winthrop Ames at the Little Theatre, New York. He then went into management on his own account, and from 1921 until his death he was active in the New York theatre. In 1921 he also married the actress Katharine Cornell, directing her in Michael Arlen's The Green Hat (1925), which first brought him into prominence, and Rudolf Besier's The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1931), which marked the beginning of a permanent partnership with her as director and co-producer. In 1936 he directed Hamlet on Broadway with John Gielgud.
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PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "McClintic, Guthrie." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "McClintic, Guthrie." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-McClinticGuthrie.html PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "McClintic, Guthrie." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-McClinticGuthrie.html |
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