Kenneth Macgowan
Producer
Jane Eyre (1944 film)...Bronte's 1847 novel of the same name made by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Robert Stevenson and produced by William Goetz, Kenneth Macgowan and Orson Welles (uncredited). The screenplay was by John Houseman, Aldous Huxley, Henry... In this article: Jane Eyre, Orson Welles, Gothic novel, Charlotte Bronte, Robert Stevenson, John Houseman, Mercury Theatre on the Air, and Kenneth Macgowan |
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Provincetown Players
A "triumvirate" leadership was formed between O'Neill, stage designer Robert Edmond Jones, and author and critic Kenneth Macgowan, with Macgowan named as the director of the Playhouse. After months of bitter fighting, particularly with...
In this article: Provincetown Players, Eugene O'Neill, George Cram Cook, Susan Glaspell, Provincetown, Massachusetts, New York City, New York University, Edna St. Vincent Millay, John Reed, and MacDougal Street
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Robert Edmond Jones
...theatre design throughout his career. His books include Drawings for the Theatre (1925), The Dramatic Imagination (1941) and, with Kenneth Macgowan, Continental Stagecraft (1922). He died in the home he was born in on Thanksgiving Day, 1954.
In this article: Theatre Guild, Harvard University, Florence, Provincetown Players, Desire Under the Elms, Anna Christie, and Othello
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Kenneth Macgowan
Kenneth Macgowan (30 November 1888, Winthrop, Massachusetts - 27 April 1963, West Los Angeles ) began his career as a drama critic. He wrote many books on the modern theater including The Theatre of Tomorrow (1921), Continental Stagecraft...
In this article: Eugene O'Neill, RKO Radio Pictures, West Los Angeles, California, Behind the Screen, Becky Sharp, 20th Century Fox, and Paramount Pictures
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Robert Briggs (character)
...Lou Lublin Productions. (Huxley wrote screen versions of 19th century English novels for producers Hunt Stromberg, William Goetz, Kenneth Macgowan and Orson Welles, as well as a life of Mme. Curie for Sidney Franklin ). He has just been...
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Leslie Banks
...yet restrained performances. Working in both London and New York, he won transAtlantic fame and it was when he was in New York that Kenneth Macgowan persuaded him to go to Hollywood and make his stage debut there in ''The Hounds of Zaroff ''...
In this article: Leslie Banks, Peter Pan, Henry V. Esmond, West End, Joel McCrea, London, Commander of the British Empire, Essex Regiment, The Taming of the Shrew, and First World War
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Davey Marlin-Jones
In a twist on classical Aristotlean analysis, Mr. Marlin-Jones used the acronym PASTO to break down plays. First published in Kenneth Macgowan's "A Primer of Playwriting," the book he considered to be the best ever written on the art of...
In this article: Davey Marlin-Jones, Pasto, UNLV, Robert Edwin Lee, WTOP, Wusa-tv, Wdiv-tv, and Aristotlean
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3-D film
...version was so well-received that the film quickly went into a wide stereoscopic release. However, most publications, including Kenneth Macgowan's classic film reference book Behind the Screen, state that the film did much better as a "regular"...
In this article: Polarization, Polaroid, Warner Bros., The French Line, Walt Disney Pictures, MGM, RKO, Teleview, and IMAX
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Kenneth Macgowan (30 November 1888, Winthrop, Massachusetts - 27 April 1963, West Los Angeles) began his career as a drama critic. He wrote many books on the modern theater including The Theatre of Tomorrow (1921) and Continental Stagecraft (1922), the latter with Robert Edmond Jones. In 1922, he ran The Provincetown Playhouse as its producer, with Eugene O'Neill and Robert Edmond Jones as partners. His close relationship with O'Neill lasted their lifetimes.
In 1928 he moved to Hollywood, California to become a story editor for RKO Radio Pictures. By 1932, Macgowan had become a producer for RKO, including Little Women (1933) starring Katharine Hepburn. Hepburn later claimed in an autobiography that she lost her virginity to Macgowan before her marriage in 1928, although his family disagrees.
Macgowan produced many films between 1932 and 1947, not only at RKO, but also for 20th Century Fox and Paramount Pictures. He produced the first color picture, Becky Sharp (1935), Young Mr. Lincoln with Henry Fonda (1939), and Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944).
In 1946, he left from the industry to become the first chair of the Department of Theater Arts at UCLA. The theater building on the school's campus is named in his honor.
Throughout his life, he wrote books on a number of subjects including drama and film, most notably Behind the Screen, a history of cinema published in 1965 after his death.
He died on 27 April 1963, in West Los Angeles, California.
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