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Gleason, James
Gleason, James (1886–1959), actor and playwright. Born in New York into an old family of troupers, he was carried on stage at the age of two, then performed around the country with numerous touring and stock companies. Gleason returned to New York in 1914 to appear in Pretty Mrs. Smith, then soon graduated to such important roles as the pretend millionaire Nathaniel Alden in Like a King (1921) and the disillusioned playwright James Leland in The Deep Tangled Wildwood (1923) before scoring a major success as the tough‐talking fight manager “Hap” Hurley in Is Zat So? (1925), which he wrote with Richard Taber. Later that same season he collaborated with George Abbott to write another hit, The Fall Guy (1925). With his wife, Lucille Webster, he wrote the successful comedy The Shannons of Broadway (1927), and he also produced several plays. With the coming of sound films, Gleason moved to Hollywood, where he was long typecast in tough guy roles.
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Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Gleason, James." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Gleason, James." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-GleasonJames.html Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Gleason, James." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-GleasonJames.html |
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Gleeson, James
Gleeson, James (1915– ). Australian painter and writer. He was born in Sydney and studied at East Sydney Technical College, 1934–6. Gleeson has been Australia's most committed exponent of Surrealism, both as a painter and a propagandist: ‘Possessed of poetical and critical interests he lectured and wrote a good deal during the early 1940s to make surrealism better understood’ ( Bernard Smith, Australian Painting 1778–1990, 1991). An example of his work at this time is We Inhabit the Corrosive Littoral of Habit (NG of Victoria, Melbourne, 1940), which shows a human face disintegrating and is close to Dal’ in style. Gleeson's paintings have been shown in many solo and group exhibitions. His writings include art criticism for various journals and several books, notably a standard monograph on William Dobell (1964) and Masterpieces of Autralian Painting (1969).
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IAN CHILVERS. "Gleeson, James." A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art. 1999. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. IAN CHILVERS. "Gleeson, James." A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art. 1999. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O5-GleesonJames.html IAN CHILVERS. "Gleeson, James." A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art. 1999. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O5-GleesonJames.html |
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