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CECIL L MILLINER (1917 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Borm: Hot Springs, Arkansas, USA. Graduate: University of Southern California 1955. Majors: BA Western American History - BS Biology. Military Service: WW II 1941-1945 -- Europe 1944-45 -- Combat Engineer -- two bronze stars. Retired: State of Californi
Plays by Cecil L Milliner
Sarah, Come Home | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2005 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #44785 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 6 | ||
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Synopsis: | It is July 1836 in Memphis, Tennessee. Sarah James Medcalf is 18 years old. She has innocently gone into a brothel hotel down by the steamboat landing to see what went on there. She is observed coming out of the hotel by a busybody, Mrs. Orr, who tells Sarah's mother Willie May Wooster Medcalf Bledsoe. Without waiting for Sarah to explain Willie May orders Sarah to leave home and never come back. Sarah goes to Albany, New York, where Willie May grew up. She goes to work as a bookkeeper. The bookkeepers son rapes her. She becomes pregnant. The son is tricked into marrying Sarah. Sarah returns to Memphis and works for a bookkeeper under her married name. Six years after the birth of a daughter a private detective comes to Memphis looking for Sarah. He contacts Willie May who starts looking for Sarah and finds her. Sarah is brought back home. | |||||
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Willie May | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2005 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Trafford Publishing, 6E-2333 Government St., Victoria, BC, V8T 4P4 Canada, 2004 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #44807 | |||
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Genre: | Screen Play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 6 | ||
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Notes: | also published by Third Millennium Publishers, 1931 East Libra Drive, Tempe, AZ 85283 Published in 2005 (3mpub.com/milliner) | |||||
Synopsis: | Willie May Wooster is presented at the Debutants Coming out Party in Albany, New York. She leaves the party and marrys William Medcalf to spite her mother. After a child is born ten months later Will begins to mistreat Willie May. Another son and again pregnant Will takes the family to the Kentucky Frontier to be a land speculater. Winding up on a hardscrabble farm growing corn and tobacco and four more kids Will runs out on her. A stranger, James Bledsoe, comes to the farm and Willie May hires him. Jim re-locates the family to Memphis, Tennessee. Willie May becomes half owner of a prosperous boarding house and diner. Willie May is a woman of integrity and is loyal to her wedding vows. A passing stranger comes by bringing news that changes everything. | |||||
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