Emlyn Williams letters to Katharine Cornell and Nancy Hamilton 1962-1980 1962-1964, 1978-1980

Cornell, Katharine, 1893-1974

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Katharine Cornell was born on February 16, 1893, in Berlin, where her father, Peter Cortelyou Cornell, a distant relation of Cornell University founder Ezra Cornell, was studying medicine. Later in 1893, Peter Cornell and his wife Alice Gardner Plimpton returned to their native city, Buffalo, New York with their daughter, Katharine. Her father practiced medicine in Buffalo, for several years, but he found his time and interest increasingly taken up with the family hobby. His father, S. Douglas C...

Williams, Emlyn, 1905-1987

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Emlyn Williams was an actor, director, novelist, essayist, and playwright best known for NIGHT MUST FALL and THE CORN IS GREEN. Born in 1905 in Mostyn, Flintshire, Wales, where most of his family and friends mined coal, Emlyn Williams was inspired by a sympathetic teacher to pursue a theatrical and literary career. He acted in many plays and films, and also directed the movie THE LAST DAYS OF DOLWYN (1949) which marked the film debut of his fellow Welshman Richard Burton. From the early 1950s on...

Freedman, Harold, 1915-1999

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Harold Freedman was head of the theater department of the Brand & Brandt literary agency, and counted among his clients Thornton Wilder, Mary Chase, S.N. Behrman, and others. From the description of Harold Freedman papers, 1935-1961. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122517176 From the guide to the Harold Freedman papers, 1935-1961, (The New York Public Library. Billy Rose Theatre Division.) ...

Hamilton, Nancy, 1908-1985

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