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| Name: |
Lillian Florence Hellman | | Birth Date: |
June 20, 1906 | | Death Date: |
June 30, 1984 | | Place of Birth: |
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States | | Place of Death: |
Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Female | | Occupations: |
playwright |
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Biography of Lillian Florence Hellman
569 words, approx. 1.9 pages
 Lillian Florence Hellman (1906-1984), American playwright, wrote a series of powerful, realistic plays that made her one of America's major dramatists. She explored highly controversial themes, with many of her plays reflecting her outspoken political an...
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Biography of Lillian (Florence) Hellman
13769 words, approx. 45.9 pages
 Like many other playwrights of the 1930s, Lillian Hellman urged a social conscience on the theatre. By her own admission, she is a moralist who cannot avoid the final "summing up," with the sometimes too obvious explanatory speech at the end of act 3. Of...
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Biography of Lillian (Florence) Hellman
12495 words, approx. 41.7 pages
 At Lillian Hellman's funeral, John Hersey, referring to the title of Hellman's 1969 volume of memoirs, An Unfinished Woman, declared that Hellman was at last a finished woman. Just as some of her plays enjoy periodic revivals, however, Hellman's reputati...



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Watch on the Rhine Information
271 words, approx. 1 pages
 Watch on the Rhine is a 1943 film that was adapted by Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman from Hellman's play. It was directed by Hal Mohr (uncredited) and Herman...




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 Publishers Weekly
Watch on the Rhine.(German publishing tour)
09/06/1999: 4,153 words, approx. 14 pages Five American editors on a whirlwind tour of German publishing find out what travels and what doesn't American publishers are famous for not translating foreign writers, including some very good ones. A number of overseas book-producing nations have tried to remedy that,...
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 The Washington Post
Coloradans' Human-Rights Watch on the Rhine
02/10/1993: 798 words, approx. 3 pages There were some long faces among the delegates from Journey for Justice, a politically correct organization from Colorado, as they surveyed conditions aboard a floating refugee center. Hoping to refurbish their state's damaged reputation in the wake of an anti-gay amendment, the elected...
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 The New York Observer
Bitchy, Unconventional Hellman Protected by Loving Biographer
12/11/2005: 1,613 words, approx. 5 pages On top of her many overlapping sex and love affairs, Lillian Hellman also once got married—and when she did, her biographer Deborah Martinson writes, “As was the custom, she left work to become a full-time housewife.” A stunning line, especially in light of Hellman’s extraordinary...
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 The New York Observer
Bitchy, Unconventional Hellman Protected by Loving Biographer
12/11/2005: 1,613 words, approx. 5 pages On top of her many overlapping sex and love affairs, Lillian Hellman also once got married—and when she did, her biographer Deborah Martinson writes, “As was the custom, she left work to become a full-time housewife.” A stunning line, especially in light of Hellman’s...




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Critical Essay by John Simon
195 words, approx. 1 pages
 Hellman strikes me as one of the most overrated writers in American history, and this 1941 opus [the recently revived Watch on the Rhine] has aged not as works of the imagination, but as cars, threshing machines, and other like contraptions, do. (p. 71) Watch on the Rhine would creak in every bone if it had any bones and were not entirely made of the skin of simplistic ideology, the gristle of melodrama, and the grease of facile gags. Yet through it has the black-and-whiteness of melodrama, it does not even...
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Critical Essay by Brendan Gill
135 words, approx. 1 pages
 ["Watch on the Rhine"] is still charged with meaning; the moral and political questions with which it deals continue to torment us…. [Surely we] go on asking two of the oldest and most anguished of questions: "Am I my brother's keeper? And if I am, and if this is a good thing, then how evil dare I to become in the name of keeping him?" Miss Hellman has always been a champion of the well-made play, and it's true that one detects in the neat plotting of "...


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Watch on the Rhine by Lillian Hellman | |
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