Lillian Hellman (1905–1984)
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Playwright Lillian Hellman was born in New Orleans on June 20, in 1905. After studying at New York and Columbia Universities, Hellman worked in publishing and as a book reviewer and play-reader. In 1934, Hellman had her first success as a playwright with The Children's Hour. In the play, Hellman mehr anzeigen mixed social, political, and moral issues along with more personal ones. Among some of Hellman's other successful plays are The Little Foxes, Watch on the Rhine, The Searching Wind, and Toys in the Attic. Hellman was also a screenwriter who wrote many film scripts and adapted the works of other authors for film and the stage. Hellman's memoirs include An Unfinished Woman and Pentimento. For more than 30 years Hellman had a relationship with "hard-boiled" detective writer Dashiell Hammett. She lived with him until his death in 1961, and shared his commitment to radical political causes. Hellman's appearance before Senator Joseph McCarthy's House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1952 resulted in her being blacklisted in Hollywood. Her book, Scoundrel Time, explores her experiences during the McCarthy era. Nearly blind and confined to a wheelchair, Lillian Hellman died of cardiac arrest in 1984. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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Pentimento e il tempo dei furfanti 11 Exemplare
Three American Plays 3 Exemplare
Plays 2 Exemplare
Candide a Comic Operetta Based on Voltai 2 Exemplare
Four Modern American Plays 2 Exemplare
The Little Foxes [Souvenir Program] 1 Exemplar
Lillian Hellman Plays 1 Exemplar
Die Zeit der Schurken. 1 Exemplar
Toys In The Attic (Playbill) [Vol 4 No 43] 1 Exemplar
Hellman, Lillian Archive 1 Exemplar
Skakavci 1 Exemplar
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Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by Twentieth-Century American Women Writers (1994) — Mitwirkender — 121 Exemplare
In Her Own Words: Women's Memoirs from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States (1999) — Mitwirkender — 26 Exemplare
About Women: An Anthology of Contemporary Fiction, Poetry, and Essays (1973) — Mitwirkender — 26 Exemplare
The Dain Curse / The Thin Man / The Glass Key / Red Harvest / The Maltese Falcon / Selected Stories (1950) — Herausgeber — 16 Exemplare
Double Feature: Directed by William Wyler [1986 American Masters TV episode] / The Love Trap [1929 film] [DVD] (1929) — Actor — 3 Exemplare
Critics' Choice: New York Drama Critics' Circle Prize Plays, 1935-1955 (1945) — Mitwirkender — 3 Exemplare
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- Gebräuchlichste Namensform
- Hellman, Lillian
- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Hellman, Lillian Florence
- Geburtstag
- 1905-06-20
- Todestag
- 1984-06-30
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
- Sterbeort
- Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, USA
- Todesursache
- cardiac arrest
- Wohnorte
- New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
New York, New York, USA
Hollywood, California, USA
Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, USA - Ausbildung
- New York University
Columbia University - Berufe
- playwright
screenwriter
memoirist - Beziehungen
- Hammett, Dashiell (partner)
- Organisationen
- League of American Writers
Screen Writers Guild - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (1962)
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1960)
National Institute of Arts and Letters (1946) - Kurzbiographie
- Lillian Hellman was a popular playwright whose most successful works were created between the 1930s and the 1960s. She also published several bestselling volumes of memoirs. Several of her plays were made into films. Ms. Hellman was equally famous for refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1952, and for her long romantic relationship with Dashiell Hammett.
She also conducted a lengthy feud with writer Mary McCarthy.
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Pentimento (Back Bay Books) von Lillian Hellman
This was a re-read. I knew I liked the book but couldn't remember much about it except that Dashiell Hammett had been persecuted by Joe McCarthy. Now I know why I liked it. It's a gem. It presents numerous people from Hellman's life -- well drawn but with details missing, as they would be in normal life; we never know everything about another person. Hellman doesn't fill in those gaps. She lets us see for ourselves and judge for ourselves. There are hilarious parts (the condoms!) and wrenching ones (Julia) and intriguing and fascinating parts. This is a wonderful book.… (mehr)
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