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During the 1930s, it was fashionable to be a part of the radical political movement in Hollywood. Lillian Hellman devoted herself to the cause along with other writers and actors in their zeal to reform. Her independence set her apart from all but a few women of the day, and gave her writing an edge that broke the rules. Born in New Orleans in 1905, but raised in New York after the age of five, she studied at Columbia. She married Arthur Kober in 1925, did some work in publishing and wrote for the Herald Tribune. When her husband, also a writer, got a job with Paramount, they moved out to California. It was there that she met Dashiell Hammett and subsequently divorced Kober. Their relationship lasted, in one form or another, for 30 years. Her first important work was the play "The Children's Hour," which was based on a true incident in Scotland. This was an amazingly successful play, and gave Lillian a definite standing in the literary community. Her next venture, a play called "Days To Come," was a complete failure so off she went to Europe. There, she took in the Spanish Civil War and traveled around with Ernest Hemingway. When back in the States, she wrote "The Little Foxes," which opened in 1939 and was a financial windfall for her. She also followed Dorothy Parker and other highly esteemed writers to Hollywood where she was well compensated for her screenwriting efforts. While it may have been fun and daring to be part of a radical political group in the 1930s, with the '40s came the Un-American Activities Committee. She was forced to testify in government hearings, and there was the threat of black lists and tax problems. She remained a visible force and became almost an icon in her later years. Despite an assortment of health issues, including being practically blind, she traveled, lectured, and promoted her political beliefs. She was 79 when she died in 1984, and yet she is still very much with us. It's been over 60 years since it originally opened, but "The Little Foxes," along with other works, is still being produced at all levels of the theater. What writer could ask for anything more?- Producer
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Jonathan Bernstein was born on 30 January 1946 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer and production manager, known for Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (1972), About Sarah (1998) and Family of Spies (1990). He was married to Jill. He died on 20 October 2023 in West Tisbury, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, USA.- Charles Wintour was born on 18 May 1917 in Pamphill, Dorset, England, UK. He was married to Audrey Slaughter and Eleanor "Nonie" Trego Baker. He died on 4 November 1999 in Tisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK.
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Dennis McGuire was born in 1933 in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. He was a writer and director, known for Shoot It Black, Shoot It Blue (1974), End of the Road (1970) and ABC Afterschool Specials (1972). He died on 1 May 2004 in West Tisbury, Massachusetts, USA.- Martin Fleischmann was born on 19 March 1927 in Carlsbad, Czechoslovakia. He was married to Sheila Flinn. He died on 3 August 2012 in Tisbury, England, UK.
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Nananne Porcher was born on 14 December 1922 in LaGrange, Georgia, USA. Nananne is known for The Turning Point (1977) and Live from Lincoln Center (1976). Nananne died on 17 June 2001 in West Tisbury, Massachusetts, USA.- American novelist and playwright Owen Johnson was born in New York City in 1878. The literary world was in his blood--his father was a magazine editor--and when Owen was six years old he had his first story published (he was paid the grand sum of $1.00). At age 12 he and a friend put out their own newspaper. He attended the private Lawrenceville School in New Jersey, where he founded and edited the "Lawrenceville Literary Magazine" (he later used Lawrenceville as the setting for quite a few of his novels, with many of the characters based on his schoolmates and friends). He attended Yale University and was chairman of the "Yale Literary Magazine". He graduated Yale with the class of 1900, receiving his B.A. in 1901 (in 1910 he attracted attention--and scandal--with his novel "Stover at Yale", which attacked the pretentiousness and inane rituals of the "senior societies" that predominated at the university, and also excoriated what he saw as the lack of curiosity and indolence of the younger undergraduates). After graduation he published a novel about the American Civil War, "Arrows of the Almighty", and married the first of his five wives.
He fought in France with the US Army during World War I, and was made a Chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur by the French government. In 1929 he and his fifth wife moved to New York City. He died in Tisbury, MA, in 1952.