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Lee, Robert Edwin was born on October 15, 1918 in Elyria, Ohio, United States. Son of Claire Melvin and Elvira (Taft) Lee.
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The accused was a slight, frightened man who had deliberately broken the law. His trial was a Roman circus. The chief gladiators were two great legal giants of the century. Like two bull elephants locked in mortal combat, they bellowed and roared imprecations and abuse. The spectators sat uneasily in the sweltering heat with murder in their hearts, barely able to restrain themselves. At stake was the freedom of every American. One of the most moving and meaningful plays of our generation. "a tidal wave of a drama." -- New York World-Telegram And Sun
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Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. All Groups. Comedy. 26 m., 17 f. Here are the thoroughly wonderful comings and goings, the doings and undoings of the Thurber family in Columbus, Ohio, on one evening as chronicled by James Thurber. It is a perfectly nutty family evening, with burglars and cops and Thurbers and neighbors. "Thurber beaten into delicate theatrical gold." Dallas Iconoclast. "One of the world's great wits...
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( A reissue of a now classic American drama. If the law ...)
A reissue of a now classic American drama. If the law is of such a nature that it requires you to be an agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law." So wrote the young Henry David Thoreau in 1849. Three years earlier, Thoreau had put his belief into action and refused to pay taxes because of the United States government's involvement in the Mexican War, which Thoreau firmly believed was unjust. For his daring and unprecedented act of protest, he was thrown in jail. The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail is a celebrated dramatic presentation of this famous act of civil disobedience and its consequences. Its poignant, lively, and accessible scenes offer a compelling exploration of Thoreau's philosophy and life.
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Book annotation not available for this title. Title: Auntie Mame Author: Lawrence, Jerome/ Lee, Robert E. Publisher: Dramatist's Play Service Publication Date: 2000/10/01 Number of Pages: Binding Type: PAPERBACK Library of Congress:
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Lee, Robert Edwin was born on October 15, 1918 in Elyria, Ohio, United States. Son of Claire Melvin and Elvira (Taft) Lee.
Student, Ohio Wesleyan University, 1935-1937; Doctor of Letters, Ohio Wesleyan University, 1962; Doctor of Letters, College Wooster, 1983; Doctor of Humane Letters, Ohio State University, 1979.
Lawrence and Lee turned to the live theatre in 1955 with Inherit the Wind, which remains among the most-produced plays in the American theatre. They are also well known for the plays Auntie Mame and First Monday in October. In 1965, Lawrence and Lee founded the American Playwrights" Theatre, a plan to bypass the commerciality of the Broadway stage, which foreshadowed the professional regional theatre movement.
Their wildly successful play, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, was produced through the American Playwrights Theatre, and premiered at Lawrence"s alma mater, Ohio State University, which also commissioned their play on the life and times of James Thurber, Jabberwock (1972).
In all, they collaborated on 39 works, and a 1956 musical adaptation of James Hilton"s Lost Horizon, entitled Shangri-Louisiana, with the author himself. Less successful was the Lawrence and Lee collaboration with Herman, also starring Lansbury, Dear World, a musical adaptation of Jean Giraudoux"s The Madwoman of Chaillot.
Several of Lawrence and Lee"s plays draw on events from United States history to speak to contemporary issues. Inherit the Wind (1955) addressed intellectual freedom and McCarthyism by speaking of a fictionalized Scopes Monkey Trial.
The Gang"s All Here (1959) examined government corruption in the 1920s.
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail (1970) was a Vietnam-era exploration of Thoreau"s resistance to an earlier war. The Jerome Lawrence and Robert East. Lee Theatre Research Institute, a theater research facility and archive was dedicated in Lawrence and Lee"s honor at the Ohio State University in 1986. He is buried in Forest Lawn – Hollywood Hills Cemetery.
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( Hop on the star-studded show train as Gordon MacRae sin...)
( Hop on the star-studded show train as Gordon MacRae sin...)
(Based on the Scopes 'Monkey Trial' in 1925, "Inherit the ...)
(Inherit the Wind is a fictionalized account of the 1925 S...)
(The accused was a slight, frightened man who had deliber...)
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(Drama, Plays, Theatre, Literature, Reading, Learning)
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Married Janet Waldo, March 29, 1948. Children: Jonathan, Lucy.