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The Green Pastures is a play written in 1930 by Marc Connelly adapted from Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun (1928), a collection of stories written by Roark Bradford.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 24 relations: African Americans, Australia, Film adaptation, Finland, Great Depression, Hall Johnson, Hallmark Hall of Fame, Hungary, Internet Archive, Mabel Ridley, Marc Connelly, Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun, Old Testament, Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Rex Ingram (actor), Richard Berry Harrison, Roark Bradford, Roy Lockwood, Southern United States, Sunday Night Theatre, Television, William Keighley, William Marshall (actor), William Warfield.

  2. Great Depression plays
  3. Plays based on books
  4. Plays by Marc Connelly
  5. Plays set in New Orleans
  6. Works based on the Old Testament

African Americans

African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Film adaptation

A film adaptation is the transfer of a work or story, in whole or in part, to a feature film.

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Finland

Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression (19291939) was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world.

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Hall Johnson

Francis Hall Johnson (March 12, 1888 – April 30, 1970) was an American composer and arranger of African-American spiritual music.

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Hallmark Hall of Fame

Hallmark Hall of Fame, originally called Hallmark Television Playhouse, is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas Citybased greeting card company.

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Hungary

Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle.

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Mabel Ridley

Mabel Ridley (January 1894 – April 18, 1938) was an American mezzo-soprano singer who appeared in Broadway theatre and revues in the 1920s and 1930s.

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Marc Connelly

Marcus Cook Connelly (December 13, 1890 – December 21, 1980) was an American playwright, director, producer, performer, and lyricist.

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Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun

Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun is a collection of pseudo-African American folktales written by author Roark Bradford and published in the United Kingdom and the United States in 1928.

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Old Testament

The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew and occasionally Aramaic writings by the Israelites.

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Pulitzer Prize for Drama

The Pulitzer Prize for Drama is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. The Green Pastures and Pulitzer Prize for Drama are Pulitzer Prize for Drama-winning works.

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Rex Ingram (actor)

Rex Ingram (October 20, 1895 – September 19, 1969) was an American stage, film, and television actor.

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Richard Berry Harrison

Richard Berry Harrison (September 28, 1864 – March 14, 1935) was an actor, teacher, dramatic reader and lecturer.

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Roark Bradford

Roark Whitney Wickliffe Bradford (August21, 1896November13, 1948) was an American short story writer and novelist.

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Roy Lockwood

Roy Lockwood, (8 June 1907 to 25 April 2002) was a pioneering British film, television and radio director.

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Southern United States

The Southern United States, sometimes Dixie, also referred to as the Southern States, the American South, the Southland, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a geographic and cultural region of the United States.

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Sunday Night Theatre

Sunday Night Theatre was a long-running series of televised live television plays screened by BBC Television from early 1950 until 1959.

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Television

Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound.

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William Keighley

William Jackson Keighley (August 4, 1889 – June 24, 1984) was an American stage actor and Hollywood film director.

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William Marshall (actor)

William Horace Marshall (August 19, 1924 – June 11, 2003) was an American actor, director and opera singer.

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William Warfield

William Caesar Warfield (January 22, 1920 – August 25, 2002) was an American concert bass-baritone singer and actor, known for his appearances in stage productions, Hollywood films, and television programs.

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See also

Great Depression plays

Plays based on books

Plays by Marc Connelly

Plays set in New Orleans

Works based on the Old Testament

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Pastures