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Albert Horton Foote Jr. (March 14, 1916 – March 4, 2009) was an American playwright and screenwriter. He received Academy Awards for his screenplays for the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird, which was adapted from the 1960 novel of the same name by Harper Lee, [1] and his original screenplay for the film Tender Mercies (1983).
Mar 4, 2009 · Horton Foote was an American playwright and screenwriter who evoked American life in beautifully observed minimal stories and was perhaps best known for his adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird. Foote studied acting at the Pasadena Playhouse in California and in New York City.
Foote won an Oscar for Best Adapted screenplay for Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), which was the movie debut of Robert Duvall. Foote also continued to prosper on Broadway, with his plays "The Chase," "The Trip to Bountiful" with Lillian Gish and "The Traveling Lady" with Kim Stanley.
The Orphans' Home Cycle is a 3-play drama written by Horton Foote. Each of the three plays in the trilogy comprises three one-act plays. They are The Story of a Childhood (Part 1), The Story of a Marriage (Part 2), and The Story of a Family (Part 3).
The Trip to Bountiful is a play by American playwright Horton Foote. The play premiered March 1, 1953, on NBC-TV, before being produced on the Broadway stage from November 3, 1953, to December 5, 1953.
Mar 5, 2009 · Horton Foote, who chronicled a wistful American odyssey through the 20th century in plays and films mostly set in a small town in Texas and who left a literary legacy as one of the country’s...
Foote’s comeback in the theater began with small productions of individual plays of his “Orphans’ Home Cycle” at the H-B Studio in New York. Run by Uta Hagen and her husband, Herbert Berghof, the Studio was a home to aspiring actors and playwrights.
Horton Foote's playwriting career spans more than 50 years. His plays have been produced for Broadway, off-Broadway, off-off Broadway and regionally.
Jun 24, 2014 · The quiet cotton-farming community of Wharton, Texas, is the touchstone for the career of playwright and screenwriter Horton Foote. Born in 1916 and raised in Wharton, Foote first dreamed of ...
Mar 5, 2009 · In portraying Harrison through most of the 20th century (from 1902 to its last decades) in dozens of plays, Mr. Foote has created a portrait of a people, a class and a region over time that is ...
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