Marc Connelly, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, is best known as being one of the leading wits of the Algonquin Round Table and for being a collaborator with George S. Kaufman, with whom he wrote many plays, including Merton of the Movies (1947). His Broadway career spanned 65 years, from 1915, when he got his first writing credit on a ...
December 13, 1890, McKeesport, Pennsylvania, United States
Died
December 21, 1980, New York City, New York, United States
Place Of Birth
McKeesport, Pennsylvania, USA
Profession
Writer, Actor, Miscellaneous Crew
Nationality
American
Spouse
Madeline Hurlock (m. 1930–1935)
Parents
Mabel Louise Cook, Patrick Joseph Connelly
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Nominations
Academy Award for Best Writing Adapted Screenplay, Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play, Primetime Emmy Award for Best Teleplay Writing - One Hour or More
Movies
The Green Pastures, The Spirit of St. Louis, Captains Courageous, Tall Story, I Married a Witch, Merton of the Movies, The Farmer Takes a Wife, Cabin in the Sky, Reunion in France, The Wild Man of Borneo, Exit Smiling, Make Me a Star, Not So Dumb, Beggar on Horseback, The Impostor, Dulcy, To the Lad...
TV Shows
One Minute Please, Actors Studio
Star Sign
Sagittarius
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Quote
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Madeline Hurlock divorced Marc Connelly in order to marry Robert E. Sherwood, prompting her ex-husband to comment: "Madeline [is] the only person I know who married two Pulitzer Prize playwrights."
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Fact
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Was nominated for Broadway's 1959 Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actor (Dramatic) for "Tall Story," a performance he recreated in the film version with the same title, Tall Story (1960).
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Won a Pulitzer Prize in 1930 for his play "The Green Pastures."
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Les verts pâturages
1964
TV Movie play
The Green Pastures
1959
TV Movie adaptation / play
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre
1958
TV Series writer - 1 episode
The Green Pastures
1957
TV Movie adaptation / play
Crowded Paradise
1956
additional scenes
The Farmer Takes a Wife
1953
play
Pulitzer Prize Playhouse
1951
TV Series play - 1 episode
Studio One in Hollywood
1950
TV Series story - 1 episode
The Ford Theatre Hour
1949
TV Series play - 1 episode
Merton of the Movies
1947
play
Kraft Theatre
1947
TV Series play - 1 episode
Strange Confession
1944
additional dialogue
Cabin in the Sky
1943
contributing writer - uncredited
Reunion in France
1942
screenplay
I Married a Witch
1942
screen play
The Wild Man of Borneo
1941
based on the play by
Victory
1940
contributor to screenplay construction - uncredited
$700,000
