The Green Pastures, the Glossary
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]
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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.
- Great Depression plays
- Plays based on books
- Plays by Marc Connelly
- Plays set in New Orleans
- 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
- 110 in the Shade
- Can You Hear Their Voices?
- Men Should Weep
- On the Rocks: A Political Comedy
- Panic (play)
- Pullman Porter Blues
- The Diviners (play)
- The Green Pastures
- The Rainmaker (play)
- Waiting for Lefty
Plays based on books
- A Round-Heeled Woman: the play
- Act One (play)
- Albert Speer (play)
- Alias Jimmy Valentine (play)
- Aristo (play)
- Calabi-Yau (play)
- Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words (play)
- Educating Rita
- I Am My Own Wife
- Jeanie Deans (play)
- King Lear
- Lombardi (play)
- Love, Loss, and What I Wore
- Marathon '33
- Mareez (play)
- My Life as a 10-Year-Old Boy
- Prick Up Your Ears (play)
- Rafta, Rafta...
- The Cat in the Hat (play)
- The Diary of Anne Frank (play)
- The Diary of a Teenage Girl (play)
- The Green Pastures
- The Ik
- The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
- The Life and Slimes of Marc Summers
- The Lorax (musical)
- The Madwoman in the Volvo
- The Mahabharata (play)
- The Pitmen Painters (play)
- The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives (play)
- The Secret River (play)
- The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs
- Travels with My Aunt (play)
- Yellow Jack (play)
Plays by Marc Connelly
- Merton of the Movies (play)
- The Flowers of Virtue
- The Green Pastures
Plays set in New Orleans
- A Free Man of Color
- A Streetcar Named Desire
- A Streetcar Named Desire (opera)
- Manon Lescaut (Puccini)
- Suddenly Last Summer
- The Green Pastures
- Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright
- Toys in the Attic (play)
- Vieux Carré (play)
Works based on the Old Testament
- Book of Abraham
- Jezebel (Frankie Laine song)
- Symphony No. 1 (Bernstein)
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