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Winged Victory
Winged Victory (1943), a play by Moss Hart. [44th Street Theatre, 212 perf.] Centering on the air force career of three men—Allan Ross ( Mark Daniels), an Ohio bank teller, Pinky Scariano ( Don Taylor), a barber, and Irving Miller ( Edmund O'Brien), a young man from Brooklyn—the story follows them through their basic training, to their tour of duty on a bomber they name “Winged Victory,” and into the battle in which Pinky is seriously injured but seems likely to survive. The stirring propaganda piece was produced by the U. S. Army Air Forces for the benefit of the Army Emergency Relief Fund and featured a huge cast, many of whom later went on to stardom. The play earned millions of dollars for the relief fund in its limited engagements around the country.
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Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Winged Victory." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Winged Victory." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-WingedVictory.html Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Winged Victory." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-WingedVictory.html |
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Wingless Victory, The
Wingless Victory, The (1936), a play by Maxwell Anderson. [Empire Theatre, 110 perf.] To the horror of his sanctimonious New England family, Nathaniel McQueston ( Walter Abel), captain of the ship Wingless Victory, returns to port with a wife, the dark‐skinned Malayan princess Oparre ( Katharine Cornell). She is accepted grudgingly only because Nathaniel is so rich. However, with time she recognizes she will never be truly welcome and that she stands in Nathaniel's way and so kills herself and her children. The play, which opened less than a month before Anderson's High Tor, was viewed by many as old‐fashioned melodrama in the guise of blank‐verse tragedy. Stark Young of the New Republic dismissed it as “semitosh from start to finish.”
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Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Wingless Victory, The." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Wingless Victory, The." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-WinglessVictoryThe.html Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Wingless Victory, The." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-WinglessVictoryThe.html |
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Winged Victory
Winged Victory see Nike . |
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"Winged Victory." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Winged Victory." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-X-WingedVi.html "Winged Victory." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-X-WingedVi.html |
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