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Horton Foote (1916–2009)

Autor von To Kill a Mockingbird [1962 film]

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Horton Foote was born in Wharton, Texas on March 14, 1916. He studied acting at the Pasadena Playhouse in California for two years before going to New York and joining Mary Hunter's American Actors Company. While there, he wrote a one-act play called Wharton Dance. After that, he continued to mehr anzeigen pursue acting and appeared in a few other plays, but primarily focused on writing. After World War II, he moved to Washington D. C. to run the King Smith School with Vincent Donehue. While he was there, he opened the King Smith Theater to all races, the first integrated audiences in the nation's capital. In addition to plays, he wrote for television and film. He was one of the writers for The Gabby Hayes Show on NBC. He wrote numerous plays including The Chase, The Carpetbagger's Children, and The Orphans' Home. He wrote numerous screenplays for movies including Baby, the Rain Must Fall and The Trip to Bountiful. He won the Pulitzer Prize for The Young Man from Atlanta and two Academy Awards for To Kill a Mockingbird and Tender Mercies. He died on March 4, 2009 at the age of 92. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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To Kill a Mockingbird [1962 film] (1962) — Screenwriter — 659 Exemplare
The Young Man from Atlanta (1995) 96 Exemplare
Of Mice and Men (1992) / Egerek es emberek (1992) — Screenwriter — 78 Exemplare
The Trip to Bountiful: play (1954) 76 Exemplare
Beginnings: A Memoir (2001) 42 Exemplare
Tender Mercies [1983 film] (1994) — Screenwriter — 32 Exemplare
The Trip to Bountiful [1985 film] (1985) — Screenwriter — 26 Exemplare
The Chase [1966 film] (1966) — Original play — 24 Exemplare
Horton Foote: Four New Plays (1993) 23 Exemplare
The Chase: Acting Edition (1707) 15 Exemplare
1918. (1987) 15 Exemplare
The orphans' home cycle (1989) 14 Exemplare
Bessie [2015 film] (2015) — Writer — 13 Exemplare
The Traveling Lady (1955) 13 Exemplare
Tomorrow (1996) 10 Exemplare
Blind Date (1986) 9 Exemplare
Blind Date and the Actor (2007) 8 Exemplare
Lily Dale (1987) 8 Exemplare
Harrison, Texas (1956) 7 Exemplare
Courtship - Acting Edition (1994) 7 Exemplare
Laura Dennis (1996) 7 Exemplare
The Widow Claire (1987) 7 Exemplare
Talking Pictures (1996) 7 Exemplare
Valentine's Day. (1987) 6 Exemplare
The Trip to Bountiful [2014 TV movie] (2014) — Autor — 5 Exemplare
Baby, the Rain Must Fall (1965) 4 Exemplare
The Midnight Caller. (1959) 4 Exemplare
Vernon Early (2000) 3 Exemplare
Cousins. (1979) 3 Exemplare
Convicts 3 Exemplare
1918 [1985 film] — Screenwriter — 3 Exemplare
Night Seasons (1996) 2 Exemplare
The Old Friends (2015) 2 Exemplare
The Day Emily Married (2015) 1 Exemplar
The Road to the Graveyard. (1988) 1 Exemplar
Tender mercies 1 Exemplar
A Coffin In Egypt (2015) 1 Exemplar
Courtship: Revised 1 Exemplar

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Moving Parts: Monologues from Contemporary Plays (1992) — Mitwirkender — 56 Exemplare
The Signet Book of Short Plays (2004) — Mitwirkender — 28 Exemplare
The New Great American Writers' Cookbook (2003) — Mitwirkender — 21 Exemplare
Best American Plays: Ninth Series, 1983-1992 (1993) — Mitwirkender — 16 Exemplare
A Portrait of Southern Writers: Photographs (2000) — Mitwirkender — 13 Exemplare
The Best Plays Theater Yearbook 2007-2008 (2009) — Mitwirkender — 5 Exemplare

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Great book. Lots of elderly people just want to go home 1 more time before they die.
 
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Leessa | 1 weitere Rezension | Sep 3, 2022 |
This might be the best short story I have ever read. Up until now, I would have named [b:A Rose for Emily|2984286|A Rose for Emily|William Faulkner|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1348758685l/2984286._SY75_.jpg|62090508] if asked for Faulkner's best short story, henceforth, my answer will be Tomorrow.

I cried at the end of this one. I cried for how cruel life can be and how the best instincts of a man can be used against him. And, I wondered if it was better to have loved and seen what Fentry had seen or never to have known love at all, for any other human being on earth.

Faulkner was in his best descriptive form:

We followed him to the gallery, where a plump, white-haired old lady in a clean gingham sunbonnet and dress and a clean white apron sat in a low rocking chair, shelling field peas into a wooden bowl.

Can you not just see both the woman and the gallery on which she sits?

And, he was at his best philosophically, as well:

But Uncle Gavin says it don’t take many words to tell the sum of any human experience; that somebody has already done it in eight: He was born, he suffered, and he died.

That might make a headstone for any of us.

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mattorsara | Aug 11, 2022 |
Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his children against prejudice.
Rated PG for thematic elements, mild violence and language
 
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SITAG_Family | 4 weitere Rezensionen | Jul 13, 2021 |
An interesting movie. Has a song that my father wrote, "On the Wings of a Dove." Duvall's character "sings" the song to himself when his daughter, played by actress Ellen Barkin, is driving off. Of course I would rate it 5 stars, however, I think I would like it even if the movie didn't have my father's song.
 
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