Sidney Kingsley

Sidney Kingsley (birth name: Sidney Kirshner, born October 22, 1906 in New York City; † March 20, 1995 in Oakland, New Jersey ) was an American playwright. His play Men in White in 1934 won the Pulitzer Prize for drama received.

Life

Kingsley studied post-school at Cornell University and began already during their studies with the writing of plays. His greatest success came with Kingsley his play Men in White ( 1933), which in 1934 was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1934 and filmed by Richard Boleslawski with Clark Gable and Myrna Loy. In the following period, he wrote numerous other plays and screenplays for films such as Dead End (1937) and Police Station 21 ( 1951). Later he also wrote the screenplays and templates for numerous television series and TV movies. 1952 appeared Darkness at Noon, a dramatic revision of the novel eclipse by Arthur Koestler.

Kingsley, the actress Madge Evans married in 1939, was also a board member of the dance ensemble from Martha Graham.

Dramas

Werkausgaben

• Sidney Kingsley: Five Prizewinning Plays. Ohio State University Press, Columbus OH 1995. ISBN 0814206654 ( digitized on the sides of the publisher in full control)