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Ruth Gordon

RUTH GORDON  (1896 - 1985)

 Nationality:    USA
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 Leading Lady, The         Over Twenty-One         Very Rich Woman, A         Years Ago

Leading Lady, The

Synopsis:
a very picturesque period play about the American theater at the turn of the century; it offers many opportunities for colorful sets and picturesque costumes

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1949   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  11            Female:  9            Other:  -

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Over Twenty-One

Synopsis:
Polly Wharton, sophisticated and successful writer, and her husband, Max, live in a small bungalow next to a flying field in Florida. Max is a brilliant journalist, but is having difficulty in getting through his army studies. Since he is over the age considered best for soldiers, he is discouraged. But Polly helps him pass his tests. This is the mere undercurrent of a play which is told in terms of high comedy involving among other things the attempt on the part of Max's boss to get him out of the air Force and back to work. a good part of the plot has to do with the comic efforts of the Whartons to get Max transferred to a pleasant camp where Polly can be near her husband. But due to a misunderstanding Max is sent to what is considered as the least desirable of all camps. But Polly goes through with it and at the very end, in spite of everything, she follows Max.

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Random House, NY, 1944   -

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Very Rich Woman, A

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Phillippe Heriat (Les Joies De La Famille)

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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY, 1964   -

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  8            Other:  -

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Years Ago

Synopsis:
"Me," who is Ruth Gordon Jones (later famous as Ruth Gordon), is a young girl living with her retired sea-captain father and her mother near Boston. "Me" is determined to go on the stage, but Mama and Papa are aghast. Papa wants "Me" to be a physical culture instructor, and "Me" loathes the idea. Papa brings the forbidding Miss Glavin to the house and that lady's enthusiasm for physical culture creates in "Me" a violent antipathy. Idolizing the popular actresses of the day, and determined not to lead a domestic life or become a teacher, "Me" gets a chance to interview a theatrical manager, and though this leads to nothing directly, "Me" has determined to go to New York and be an actress. With the tacit consent of Mama, "Me" at last faces Papa, expecting a battle royal. Papa, however, who is a man of determination, admires "My" spunk and, realizing that "Me" is determined to follow her own career, pawns his most beloved possession, his spy-glass. at the end, Papa and Mama see "Me" off to New York.

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1st Published:
Vicking, NY, 1947   -

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  5            Other:  -

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