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Lillian Hellman (1905–1984)

Autor von Pentimento

47+ Werke 3,915 Mitglieder 57 Rezensionen Lieblingsautor von 13 Lesern

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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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Werke von Lillian Hellman

Pentimento (1973) 708 Exemplare
The Children's Hour (1934) 480 Exemplare
Scoundrel Time (1976) 458 Exemplare
Six Plays by Lillian Hellman (1960) 443 Exemplare
The Little Foxes (1939) 324 Exemplare
Three: An Unfinished Woman, Pentimento, Scoundrel Time (1979) — Autor — 125 Exemplare
Maybe: A story (1657) 109 Exemplare
The Collected Plays (1971) 95 Exemplare
Toys in the Attic (1960) 73 Exemplare
Four Plays By Lillian Hellman (1777) 65 Exemplare
Watch on the Rhine (1941) 61 Exemplare
Candide: A Comic Operetta (1956) — Autor — 51 Exemplare
The Little Foxes [1941 film] (1941) — Screenwriter — 50 Exemplare
The Autumn Garden (1951) 46 Exemplare
Another Part of the Forest (1947) 36 Exemplare
Dead End [1937 film] (1937) — Screenwriter — 26 Exemplare
The Chase [1966 film] (1966) — Screenwriter — 24 Exemplare
Watch on the Rhine [1943 film] (1943) — Dialogue — 19 Exemplare
The North Star [1943 film] (1943) — Screenwriter — 13 Exemplare
Days to come (1936) 10 Exemplare
Candide: Original 1956 Broadway Cast Recording (2003) — Lyricist — 8 Exemplare
Montserrat, play in two acts (1950) 6 Exemplare
My Mother, My Father, and Me (1963) 5 Exemplare
Autumn Garden (1951) 3 Exemplare
These Three [1936 film] (2016) — Screenwriter — 3 Exemplare
The North Star (1943) 3 Exemplare
The Dark Angel [1935 film] (1935) — Screenwriter — 2 Exemplare
Plays 2 Exemplare
Julia (1994) 2 Exemplare
Skakavci 1 Exemplar

Zugehörige Werke

Ausgewählte Detektivstories (1943) — Einführung — 955 Exemplare
The Norton Book of Women's Lives (1993) — Mitwirkender — 409 Exemplare
Jeanne oder Die Lerche (1952) — Adapter, einige Ausgaben361 Exemplare
Six Modern American Plays (1951) — Mitwirkender — 272 Exemplare
This Is My Best (1942) — Mitwirkender — 186 Exemplare
Sixteen Famous American Plays (1777) — Playwright — 182 Exemplare
Famous American Plays of the 1950s (1962) — Mitwirkender — 164 Exemplare
Writers at Work 03 (1967) — Interviewee — 142 Exemplare
The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology (1997) — Mitwirkender — 98 Exemplare
Twenty Best Plays of the Modern American Theatre (1939) — Mitwirkender — 74 Exemplare
Best American Plays: Third Series, 1945-1951 (1952) — Mitwirkender — 69 Exemplare
Four Contemporary American Plays (1961) — Mitwirkender — 51 Exemplare
Contemporary Drama - 11 Plays (1956) — Mitwirkender — 46 Exemplare
Julia [1977 film] (1993) — Original book — 36 Exemplare
50 Best Plays of the American Theatre [4-volume set] (1969) — Mitwirkender — 33 Exemplare
A Treasury of the Theatre: From Henrik Ibsen to Eugène Ionesco (1960) — Mitwirkender — 30 Exemplare
The Gutting of Couffignal [Short story] (1925) — Nachwort, einige Ausgaben15 Exemplare
Toys in the Attic [1963 film] (1963) — Original play — 3 Exemplare
50 Best Plays of the American Theatre, Volume 2 (1969) — 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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SueJBeard | 7 weitere Rezensionen | Feb 14, 2023 |
 
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SueJBeard | 9 weitere Rezensionen | Feb 14, 2023 |
The past haunts the couples and former couples of this small Southern town. Like real life, everyone is unlikable, but unlike real life everyone confronts their self delusions.
 
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jscape2000 | Nov 20, 2022 |
Not least of my complaints about the plays, broadly speaking, is the tedious ubiquity of the shrew-figure. 'Toys in the Attic' is, perhaps, the most compelling piece in the collection, as it draws relatively complex psychological portraits; includes richly universal images, such as a sympathetic male lead reminiscent of Lorraine Hansberry's Walter Younger; and moves with a cadence not found elsewhere. I find Hellman, at her worst, to be pedantic, pretentious, and arcane.
 
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BeauxArts79 | 1 weitere Rezension | Nov 9, 2022 |

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