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Marc Connelly. Marcus Cook Connelly[citation needed] (December 13, 1890 – December 21, 1980) was an American playwright, director, producer, performer, and lyricist. He was a key member of the Algonquin Round Table, and received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1930.
Marc Connelly was an American playwright, journalist, teacher, actor, and director, best-known for Green Pastures (a folk version of the Old Testament dramatized through the lives of blacks of the southern United States) and for the comedies that he wrote with George S. Kaufman.
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Marc Connelly was a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and a member of the Algonquin Round Table. He wrote many plays with George S. Kaufman, including The Green Pastures, and also acted in movies and TV.
- December 13, 1890
- December 21, 1980
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Marc Connelly was a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and a member of the Algonquin Round Table. He wrote many plays with George S. Kaufman, such as The Green Pastures, and also adapted them for film and TV.
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The Green Pastures is a play written in 1930 by Marc Connelly adapted from Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun (1928), a collection of stories written by Roark Bradford. The play was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1930. It had the first all-black Broadway cast.
Dec 22, 1980 · Marc Connelly, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Green Pastures," one of the great plays of the American theater, died yesterday at St. Luke's Hospital in Manhattan. He was...
Marc Connelly is known as an Actor, Theatre Play, Writer, Screenplay, Story, and Director. Some of his work includes I Married a Witch, Captains Courageous, Cabin in the Sky, Reunion in France, The Green Pastures, The Farmer Takes a Wife, Exit Smiling, and Beggar on Horseback.