Elmer Rice
American playwright (1892-1967) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 74
Elmer Rice was an American playwright. He is best known for his plays The Adding Machine (1923) and his Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of New York tenement life, Street Scene (1929).
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William Wyler Directed Counsellor at Law (1933)
Maurice Evans Produced Dream Girl (1955)
Mitchell Leisen Directed Dream Girl (1948)
John Qualen Elmer wrote Counsellor at Law and Street Scene
Carl Laemmle Jr. Produced Counsellor at Law (1933)
Walter Abel Elmer wrote Holiday Inn (1942)
Howard Higgin Directed Rent Free (1922)
P. J. Wolfson Produced Dream Girl (1948)
Sidney Ainsworth Also in On Trial and Doubling for Romeo
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From left, Joseph P. Bickerton, Jr. (theatre producer), Elmer Rice (playwright) and Carl Laemmle Jr. (Universal producer) sign a contract for the film version of Counsellor at Law
Original Broadway production of Street Scene (1929)
Maxwell Anderson, S.N. Behrman, Robert E. Sherwood and Elmer Rice, four of the five founders of the Playwrights' Company (1938)
WPA poster, California, 1938Awards
About this person
Country
United States
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1892 to 1967 · aged 74
