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A 1934 NYC taxi drivers' strike led him to write "Waiting for Lefty", the first of his plays to be produced |
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2008-01-09 |
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In 1935 this dramatist stopped "Waiting for Lefty" & in 1937 he married actress Luise Rainer |
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2006-04-18 |
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Frances Farmer had a disastrous affair with this playwright while appearing on Broadway in his play "Golden Boy" |
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2006-01-03 |
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In 1937 he wrote the play "Golden Boy" & married that year's Oscar winner, Luise Rainer |
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1992-11-13 |
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His 1st produced play, 1935's "Waiting for Lefty", was inspired by a taxi drivers' strike in New York City |
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1990-11-20 |
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This "Golden Boy" author grew up in the Bronx & used it as his setting for "Awake & Sing" |
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1988-10-26 |
#953 |