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Charles MacArthur
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Charles Gordon MacArthur
(1895-11-05 ) November 5, 1895Died April 21, 1956(1956-04-21) (aged 60 ) Occupation(s ) Screenwriter, playwright Spouse
(m. 1920; div. 1926)[1]
(m. 1928) Children 2, including James MacArthur Relatives John D. MacArthur (brother)J. Roderick MacArthur (nephew)
Charles Gordon MacArthur (November 5, 1895 – April 21, 1956) was an American playwright , screenwriter , and 1935 winner of the Academy Award for Best Story .
Life and career
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MacArthur was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania , the sixth of seven children of stern evangelist William Telfer MacArthur and Georgiana Welsted MacArthur.[2] Midwest and soon became a successful reporter in Chicago , working for the Chicago Tribune Chicago Daily News United States Army for World War I , and served in France as a private assigned to Battery F, 149th Field Artillery, a unit of the 42nd Division , The Rainbow Division.[3] A Bug's-Eye View of the War .[4] H. L. Mencken 's The Smart Set [2] New York City , where he turned to playwriting .
MacArthur is best known for his plays in collaboration with Ben Hecht , Ladies and Gentlemen Perfect Strangers Twentieth Century The Front Page City News Bureau of Chicago . MacArthur also co-wrote, with Edward Sheldon , the play Lulu Belle , which was staged in 1926 by David Belasco .
MacArthur was friends with members of the Algonquin Round Table , shared an apartment with Robert Benchley and had an affair with Dorothy Parker .
His second marriage was to the stage and screen actress Helen Hayes , from 1928 until his death. They lived in Nyack , New York . He was preceded in death by his daughter, Mary, who died of polio in 1949 at the age of 19. The shock of her death hastened MacArthur's own, according to those who knew him. Their adopted son, James MacArthur , was also an actor, best known for playing Danny "Danno" Williams on the very popular American television series Hawaii Five-O
His brother, John D. MacArthur , was an insurance-company owner and executive, and founded the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation , the benefactor of the MacArthur Fellowships .
Awards and nominations
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Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Story - The Scoundrel Ben Hecht ) (1936)
In 1983, MacArthur was posthumously inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame .[5]
Film portrayal
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MacArthur was portrayed by Matthew Broderick in the 1994 film Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle [6]
Selected works
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Plays
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Swan Song (1946), (with Ben Hecht )
Ladies and Gentlemen Ben Hecht ), made into the 1950 film Perfect Strangers
Spring Tonic , made into the 1935 movie of the same name
Johnny on a Spot
Jumbo , (with Ben Hecht ), made into the 1935 musical play Jumbo Billy Rose's Jumbo
Twentieth Century Ben Hecht ), made into the 1934 film Twentieth Century
The Front Page (1928), with Ben Hecht , made into the 1931, 1945, and 1974 motion pictures of the same name, the 1940 film His Girl Friday Switching Channels
Lulu Belle Edward Sheldon )
Screenplays
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References
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^ "Reporter Writes View of the War" . The Fourth Estate . New York, NY. December 20, 1919. p. 25.
^ MacArthur, Charles G. (1919). A Bug's-Eye View of the War
^ "Theater Hall of Fame Gets 10 New Members" . The New York Times
^ "Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994) - IMDb" – via www.imdb.com.
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