Oral history interview with Marc Connelly, 1959

Biographical Note

Playwright; full name is Marcus Cook Connelly

Scope and Contents

Career in New York theater including "Wisdom Tooth," "Beggar on Horseback," "Green Pastures"; screen writing in Hollywood from 1927: "Cradle Song" and "Captains Courageous"; Motion Picture Production Code: Butterworth Athletic Club; reflections on theater, acting, the 1920s and Prohibition. Audio is comprised of narrator's excerpts from the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company's radio program series "Memoirs of the Movies"

Subjects

• Connelly, Marc, 1890-1980--Interviews.
• Dramatists--Interviews.
• Franklin, Joan, interviewer.
• Franklin, Robert, interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Motion picture authorship.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Screenwriters--Interviews.
• Theater--Production and direction.