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  1. 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.

  2. Dec. 21, 1980, New York City (aged 90) Awards And Honors: Pulitzer Prize (1930) Notable Works: “Green Pastures”. Marc Connelly (born Dec. 13, 1890, McKeesport, Pa., U.S.—died Dec. 21, 1980, New York City) was an American playwright, journalist, teacher, actor, and director, best-known for Green Pastures (a folk version of the Old ...

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  3. Marc Connelly, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, is best known as being one of the leading wits of the Algonquin Round Table and for being a collaborator with George S. Kaufman, with whom he wrote many plays, including Merton of the Movies (1947). His Broadway career spanned 65 years, from 1915, when he got his first writing credit on a ...

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  5. www.imdb.com › name › nm0175091Marc Connelly - IMDb

    Marc Connelly. Writer: Captains Courageous. Marc Connelly, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, is best known as being one of the leading wits of the Algonquin Round Table and for being a collaborator with George S. Kaufman, with whom he wrote many plays, including Merton of the Movies (1947).

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  6. 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 90 years old...

  7. 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.

  8. Dec 23, 1980 · By Martin Weil. December 23, 1980. Marc Connelly, who wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning play "The Green Pastures" and who was for years a major creative force in the Broadway theater, died...

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