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The gravesite of Clyde Fitch While staying at the Hotel de la Haute Mère de Dieu at Châlons-en-Champagne in France, he suffered what would be a fatal attack. He underwent surgery by a local doctor rather than travel to Paris and died from blood poisoning aged 44.
CHALONS-SUR-MARNE, Sept. 4. -- Clyde Fitch, the American playwright, died at 9:30 this evening. He had been unconscious since 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
Cause of Death: Blood poisoning after an appendectomy. Historical Events. 1890-05-17 Clyde Fitch's play "Beau Brummel" premieres in NYC. 1901-01-21 Clyde Fitch's play "The Climbers" premieres in NYC. 1901-11-04 Clyde Fitch's stage play "Way of the World" opens at the Savoy Theatre, NYC; runs for 48 performances.
Apr 30, 2024 · Died: Jan. 22, 1933, New York City (aged 76) Elisabeth Marbury (born June 19, 1856, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Jan. 22, 1933, New York City) was an American theatrical and literary agent who represented a stellar array of theatrical performers and writers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Sep 23, 2017 · Although not much remembered today, Clyde Fitch was the most important American playwright before Eugene O’Neill and the generation of writers that arose in the 1920’s. Fitch was also unbelievably prolific writing 62 plays (36 originals and 21 adaptions, plus five dramatizations of novels) between 1890 and 1909 when he died at the premature ...
The official cause of death would later be listed as "accidental," but it's hard to accidentally swallow an entire bottle of pills, which happened to be shaped just like little coffins. Olive had ...
Oct 31, 2008 · Here’s the abstract: Clyde Fitch was the most famous playwright of the early twentieth century, but today no one studies him. The disconnect between his fame in his lifetime and his obscurity after death points to a major historiographical problem, a problem that began in Fitch’s own day. Fitch’s numerous contemporary critics, many of ...
