MacArthur, Charles

MacArthur, Charles( 1895–1956),
Pennsylvania-born playwright, as a journalist in Chicago was an intimate of its literary group. His plays include Lulu Belle (1926), written with his uncle Edward Sheldon; Salvation (1927), with Sidney Howard; and The Front Page (1928), 20 th Century (1932), and Ladies and Gentlemen (1939) with Ben Hecht, with whom he also wrote motion pictures. His wife, the actress Helen Hayes (1900–93), starred in Barrie's What Every Woman Knows, Housman's Victoria Regina, and Anderson's Mary of Scotland. A Gift of Joy (1965) is her autobiography.