Sewell Collins
Sewell Collins (1876–1934[1]) was an American dramatist and producer.
Collins wrote several plays which were later adapted for film, including At 9:45 (1919) which was filmed as Nine Forty-Five (1934) and starred Binnie Barnes and Donald Calthrop.[2] In his play G.H.Q. Love (1920), Collins was one of the first playwrights to depict prostitutes without judgment, depicting women who turned to that trade, according to theatre historian Sos Eltis, "as social deprivation and economic necessity."[3] His wife was actress Margaret Moffat.
References
- ^ Wearing, J. P. American and British Theatrical Biography. Metuchen, New Jersey: The Scarecrow Press, 1979: 232
- ^ Roberts, Jerry. The Great American Playwrights: A Critical Guide to Film, TV, Video, and DVD. New York: Applause Books, 2003: 136. ISBN 1557835128
- ^ Eltis, Sos. Acts of Desire: Woman and Sex on Stage, 1800-1920. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013: 205. ISBN 978-0-19-969-135-7
External links
- Works by Sewell Collins at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Sewell Collins at the Internet Archive
- Sewell Collins at IMDb
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