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Uhry, Alfred Fox was born on December 3, 1936 in Atlanta. Son of Ralph Kahn and Alene (Fox) Uhry.
( Racial tensions are delicately explored when a warm fri...)
Racial tensions are delicately explored when a warm friendship evolves between an elderly Jewish woman and her black chauffeur. Winner of a 1988 Pulitzer Prize, and Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay.
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Cast: 3 Men, 4 Women. THE LAST NIGHT OF BALLYHOO takes place in Atlanta, Georgia, in December of 1939. Gone with the Wind is having its world premiere, and Hitler is invading Poland, but Atlanta's elitist German Jews are much more concerned with who is going to Ballyhoo, the social event of the season. Especially concerned is the Freitag family: bachelor Adolph, his widowed sister, Beulah (Boo) Levy, and their also widowed sister-in-law, Reba. Boo is determined to have her dreamy, unpopular daughter, Lala, attend Ballyhoo, believing it will be Lala's last chance to find a socially acceptable husband. Adolph brings his new assistant, Joe Farkas, home for dinner. Joe is Brooklyn born and bred, and furthermore is of Eastern European heritage-several social rungs below the Freitags, in Beulah's opinion. Lala, however, is charmed by Joe and she hints broadly about being taken to Ballyhoo, but he turns her down. This enrages Boo, and matters get worse when Joe falls for Lala's cousin, Reba's daughter, Sunny, home from Wellesley for Christmas vacation. Will Boo succeed in snaring Peachy Weil, a member of one of the finest Jewish families in the South? Will Sunny and Joe avoid the land mines of prejudice that stand in their way? Will Lala ever get to Ballyhoo? The family gets pulled apart and then mended together with plenty of comedy, romance and revelations along the way. Events take several unexpected turns as the characters face where they come from and are forced to deal with who they really are.
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Uhry, Alfred Fox was born on December 3, 1936 in Atlanta. Son of Ralph Kahn and Alene (Fox) Uhry.
Bachelor, Brown University, 1958.
Playwriter Flora Roberts Inc. Worked with composer Frank Loesser, 1960—1963. Instructor England drama Calhoun High School, 1963—1980.
Instructor lyric writing New York University, 1985—1988.
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(The play, Driving Miss Daisy)
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(Book by Alfred Uhry)
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Member of Dramatists Guild (council since 1989, Elizabeth Martow prize 1987).
Married Joanna Kellogg. Children: Emily Uhry Rhea, Elizabeth Uhry MacCurrach, Katharine, Nell.