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RUTH GORDON (1896 - 1985) |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Plays by Ruth Gordon |
Leading Lady, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1949 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #13993 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 9 | ||
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Synopsis: | A very picturesque period play about the American theater at the turn of the century; it offers many opportunities for colorful sets and picturesque costumes | |||||
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Over Twenty-One | ||
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| 1st Published: | Random House, NY, 1944 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #13994 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 5 | ||
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Synopsis: | Polly Wharton, sophisticated and successful writer, and her husband, Max, live in a small bungalow next to a flying field in Florida. Max is a brilliant journalist, but is having difficulty in getting through his army studies. Since he is over the age considered best for soldiers, he is discouraged. But Polly helps him pass his tests. This is the mere undercurrent of a play which is told in terms of high comedy involving among other things the attempt on the part of Max's boss to get him out of the Air Force and back to work. A good part of the plot has to do with the comic efforts of the Whartons to get Max transferred to a pleasant camp where Polly can be near her husband. But due to a misunderstanding Max is sent to what is considered as the least desirable of all camps. But Polly goes through with it and at the very end, in spite of everything, she follows Max. | |||||
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Very Rich Woman, A | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, 1964 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #13995 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 8 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Phillippe Heriat (Les Joies De La Famille) | |||||
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Years Ago | ||
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| 1st Published: | Vicking, NY, 1947 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #13996 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 5 | ||
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Synopsis: | "Me," who is Ruth Gordon Jones (later famous as Ruth Gordon), is a young girl living with her retired sea-captain father and her mother near Boston. "Me" is determined to go on the stage, but Mama and Papa are aghast. Papa wants "Me" to be a physical culture instructor, and "Me" loathes the idea. Papa brings the forbidding Miss Glavin to the house and that lady's enthusiasm for physical culture creates in "Me" a violent antipathy. Idolizing the popular actresses of the day, and determined not to lead a domestic life or become a teacher, "Me" gets a chance to interview a theatrical manager, and though this leads to nothing directly, "Me" has determined to go to New York and be an actress. With the tacit consent of Mama, "Me" at last faces Papa, expecting a battle royal. Papa, however, who is a man of determination, admires "My" spunk and, realizing that "Me" is determined to follow her own career, pawns his most beloved possession, his spy-glass. At the end, Papa and Mama see "Me" off to New York. | |||||
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