Rachel Crothers(1870-1958)

Writer

Rachel Crothers (December 12, 1870 - July 5, 1958) was an American playwright and theater director known for her well-crafted plays that often dealt with feminist themes. Among theater historians, she is generally recognized as "the most successful and prolific woman dramatist writing in the first part of the twentieth century."

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When Ladies Meet

6.5

Writer

1941

When Ladies Meet

6.8

Writer

1933

Let Us Be Gay

6.3

Writer

1930

Splendor

6.2

Writer(uncredited)

1935

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Matinee Theatre
6.8
TV Series
- story
- 1956
Celanese Theatre
6.9
TV Series
- play
- 1951–1952
Nash Airflyte Theatre
6.0
TV Series
- Writer
- 1951
Kraft Theatre
7.9
TV Series
- play
- 1949–1950
When Ladies Meet
6.5
- based on the play by
- 1941
The Captain Is a Lady
6.2
- play "Old Lady 31"
- 1940
Susan and God
5.9
- based on the celebrated play by
- 1940
Mother Carey's Chickens
6.3
- play
- 1938
Susan and God
TV Movie
- writer
- 1938
Splendor
6.2
- by
- play
- screenplay (uncredited)
- 1935
No More Ladies
6.0
- adaptation (uncredited)
- 1935
As Husbands Go
- play
- 1934
When Ladies Meet
6.8
- based on the play by
- 1933
Soyons gais
7.8
- play
- 1930
Let Us Be Gay
6.3
- from the play by
- 1930

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Born
- December 12, 1870
- Bloomington, Illinois, USA
Died
- July 5, 1958
- Danbury, Connecticut, USA(died in her sleep)
Other works
Stage: Wrote "The Three of Us". Dram [earliest Broadway credit]. Directed by George Foster Platt. Hoyt's Theatre: 17 Oct 1906-May 1907 (closing date unknown/227 performances). Cast: Master George Clarke (as "Sonnie Macchesney"), Stanley Dark, Robert B. Kegerreis, Henry Kolker (as "Louis Berresford"), Carlotta Nillson (as "Rhys Macchesney"), Jane Peyton (as "Bixie"), John Prescott, Frederick Truesdell (as "Stephen Townley"), Eva Vincent (as "Maggie"), John Westley (as "Clem Macchesney"). Produced by Walter N. Lawrence. NOTE: Filmed as The Three of Us (1914).
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