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Marcus Cook Connelly [citation needed] (December 13, 1890 – December 21, 1980) was an American playwright, director, producer, performer, and lyricist. He was a key member of the Algonquin Round Table , and received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1930.
Marc Connelly was a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and a member of the Algonquin Round Table. He wrote many plays with George S. Kaufman, such as The Green Pastures, and also adapted them for film and TV.
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Marc Connelly was an American playwright, journalist, teacher, actor, and director, best-known for Green Pastures (a folk version of the Old Testament dramatized through the lives of blacks of the southern United States) and for the comedies that he wrote with George S. Kaufman.
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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).
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The Green Pastures is a play written in 1930 by Marc Connelly adapted from Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun (1928), a collection of stories written by Roark Bradford. The play was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1930. It had the first all-black Broadway cast.
Marc Connelly is known as an Actor, Theatre Play, Writer, Screenplay, Story, and Director. Some of his work includes I Married a Witch, Captains Courageous, Cabin in the Sky, Reunion in France, The Green Pastures, The Farmer Takes a Wife, Exit Smiling, and Beggar on Horseback.
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Biography: Marc Connelly was an American playwright and screenwriter. He was a member of the Algonquin Round Table alongside Dorothy Parker, Harold Ross, and Alexander Woollcott. Connelly began his career as a journalist, but soon turned to writing plays.
