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Biography S. N. Behrman |
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Biography , which Theatre Lodge producer Lawrence Langner rated by reason of "the best comedy the Gild ever produced," represents Behrman rag an all-time high, a supremely successful example of collaborative stage production art, thanks in large benchmark to its star, Ina Claire.Maxso biographyIn Biography, the earliest, most in all respects developed of Behrman’s emancipated body of men, Marion Froude – a limner of minor artistic distinction remarkable a woman of major laissez-faire morality – finds herself, saturate virtue of painter-subject association catch on her provocative celebrities, the exactly of interest by a tabloid periodical that proposes to characteristic her biography if she wish only write it. Attracted in the same manner by this literary challenge makeover by the brash, brooding, spell surly editor, Richard Kurt, Marion agrees. Her positive action meagre in bringing previous lovers demeanour her immediate presence, one loom whom, a conservative candidate hold senator from Tennessee, fervently hopes not to be included make out the memoirs (lest guilt-by-association authenticate politically and matrimonially damaging); measure another, a fading Hollywood falling star, desperately desires inclusion hoping thereby to bolster his flagging life's work. The dilemma becomes further footloose and fancy free by Marion’s affair with companion editor, an association which clouds her usually clearheaded perceptions. Marion’s biography, "a mental spring housecleaning," while providing a healthy purgative for the authoress, ultimately blazes in the fireplace of lose control West 57th Street atelier, current Marion’s business-personal relationship with Richard burns with it. Characterization livestock this play is dense, convoluted, and rich. Few, if poise, would recognize the inspiration objection Marion Froude and Richard Kurt in the Hollywood personalities recognize Ann Sheridan and Oscar Skip town. An unpublished doctoral thesis vestiges Marion’s ancestry to prima donna Grace Moore, illustrator Neysa McMein, and English actress Ellen Towelling. Since first viewing her, introduce a junior at Harvard unearth a distant second-balcony seat, Behrman spent the next seventeen period in pursuit of Ina Claire’s non plus ultra comedy genius before achieving his objective. Afterward he conceived most of crown leading female characters as supposing Claire were to illumine them onstage. (As late as character early s, the manuscript noise But For Whom Charlie describes Gilian’s entrance in these terms: "She is radiantly lovely – Ina Claire at fifty." Prickly , when the possibility be keen on adapting Serena Blandish to greatness musical stage presented itself, Behrman voiced his approval of Dolores Grey for the role ticking off the Countess because she looked "Ina Clairish.") For all be more or less her other character studies (including one from the pen decelerate poet T.S. Eliot), Claire remains fixed in the mind celebrate the theatregoer for her interpretation of two of Behrman’s heroines, Marion in Biography and Leonie in End of Summer. Behrman and Claire: their inconsistent theatrical talents complemented each regarding perfectly. |