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John William Van Druten (1 June 1901 – 19 December 1957) was an English playwright and theatre director. [1] He began his career in London, and later moved to America, becoming a U.S. citizen. He was known for his plays of witty and urbane observations of contemporary life and society.
Van Druten himself foresaw this fall from grace: in his Playwright At Work (1955), he acknowledges that “the theatre is ephemeral, and plays are a perishable commodity”.
John Van Druten was a British-American writer and producer of plays and films. He wrote Gaslight, Cabaret and Raffles, among others, and became a US citizen in 1944.
- June 1, 1901
- December 19, 1957
John Van Druten (1901-1957) was a British-American writer and producer of plays and films, such as Gaslight, Cabaret and Raffles. He also wrote the original play of I Remember Mama, which was adapted into a TV series and a film.
- Writer, Producer, Additional Crew
- June 1, 1901
- John Van Druten
- December 19, 1957
Feb 25, 2014 · In the early 1930s, when the Great Depression had the planet in its grip, the playwright John van Druten could be counted on to provide Broadway audiences with a particular brand of escape ...
John Van Druten has won the Best American Play award from the New York Drama Critics Circle Awards for his work on "I Am a Camera".
Learn about John Van Druten, a British playwright and director who wrote and directed plays such as Young Woodley, The Voice of the Turtle, and I Am a Camera. Find out his birth and death dates, historical events, and zodiac sign.
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