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Owen Davis

OWEN DAVIS

  (1874 - 1956)
Nationality:    USA
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Owen Gould Davis, Sr. (January 29, 1874 - October 14, 1956) was an American dramatist. He received the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his 1923 play Icebound, and penned hundreds of plays and scripts for radio and film. Before the First World War, he also wrote racy sketches of New York high jinks and low life for the Police Gazette under the name of 'Ike Swift'. Many of these were set in the Tenderloin, Manhattan. Davis wrote under several other pseudonyms, including 'Martin Hurley', 'Arthur J. Lamb', 'Walter Lawrence', 'John Oliver', and 'Robert Wayne'. Davis was born in Portland, Maine and lived until he was fifteen in Bangor. He was the father of actor Owen, Jr. and playwright, Donald. His brother Wilsterliam Hammatt Davis was Chairman of the National War Labor Board in Franklin Roosevelt's administration. Davis died in New York City. Owen Davis had eight brothers and sisters. He used to write plays as a boy for them which they performed for the town. - Wiki

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below is a list of Owen Davis's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         8.45         Detour, The         Ethan Frome         Mr And Mrs North

8.45

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Mystery

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Detour, The

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Ethan Frome

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as told by Gabriel in the New York Journal-American, the play concerns "farmer Ethan Frome, his complaining wife Zenobia, and her young kinswoman and house-drudge Mattie Silver. and of Ethan's and Mattie's awkward, hide-bound passion in the face of Zenobia's dreary orders, and of how desperately the two of them, entwined in a first and last rapture, ride down the hill on a crazy snow sled to meet death against a tree. But. . .they didn't. . .in the book, neither do they here. Here's the same awful and ironic epilogue, the same ogre's thumb of actuality brought crushing down on the two runaways and reducing them instead to maimed resentful invalids under the wife's care for twenty shabby years to come. a more devastating end no play has dared to have hereabouts in ages&or since the theatre insists on tall effectiveness, a more effective one either."

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written by Owen Davis And Donald Davis. Dramatization of the famous edith Wharton novel

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National Theatre, New York    1936

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Play/Drama

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Male:  7            Female:  4            Other:  extras

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Mr And Mrs North

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Dead bodies keep falling out of Pam and Jerry North's drinks cabinet. their cat holds the solution to the murders.

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Based on characters created by Richard And Frances Lockridge

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Belasco Theatre, New York    12 Jan 1941

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Thriller

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