Connelly, Marc[us Cook]
Connelly, Marc[us Cook]( 1890–1980),Pennsylvania-born journalist and playwright, is best known for his play The Green Pastures (1930, Pulitzer Prize), based on Roark Bradford's stories of the black's conception of Old Testament history. With George S. Kaufman he wrote plays including Dulcy (1921), satirizing a well-meaning, stupid woman who jeopardizes her husband's chances; To the Ladies (1922), about a brilliant woman who saves her husband from his stupidities; Merton of the Movies (1922), dramatizing H.L. Wilson's novel; and Beggar on Horseback (1924), satirizing the repression of the artist by bourgeois society. Other works include Helen of Troy (1923), a musical comedy; and The Farmer Takes a Wife (1934), from a novel by Edmonds. A Souvenir from Qam (1965) is a novel satirizing spy stories. Voices Offstage (1968) is a memoir.
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