Ketti Frings
Ketti Frings (birth name: Katherine Hartley, born February 28, 1909 in Columbus, Ohio, † February 11, 1981 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American screenwriter and playwright, in 1958 for the play Look Homeward, Angel, an adaptation award of Thomas Wolfe 's novel, the Pulitzer prize for drama.
Life
Katherine Taylor, who came from Irish-Scottish immigrant, worked first as a copywriter and then as an agent for public relations, before she wrote under the pseudonym Anita Kilgore templates for radio broadcasts and answers for actors in fanzines. In 1939 she married a native of Germany boxer and artist agent Kurt Frings, a nephew of the later Archbishop of Cologne and Cardinal Joseph Frings.
In the following years she worked under the stage name Ketti Frings and wrote screenplays and templates for almost twenty films such as 1941 Golden Gate (AKA Hold back the dawn ) by Mitchell Leisen after her piece Memo to a Movie Producer. Other famous movies according authored by her screenplays were back criminal case Thelma Jordon (1950 ) by Robert Siodmak, and Kehr, little Sheba (1952 ) of Daniel Mann.
Her biggest success came with Look Homeward, Angel, an adaptation of Thomas Wolfe's novel of the same name, for which they in 1958 the Pulitzer Prize for drama and received the Tony Award nominee for best play. They also honored the daily Los Angeles Times for " Woman of the Year ". For the template for the musical Walking Happy, she was nominated in 1967 along with Roger O. Hirson for the Tony Award for Best Musical.