Elmer+Rice

//**Elmer Rice! **// Date of Birth: September 28th, 1892 D﻿eceased: May 8th, 1967

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 * Born and raised in New York City, New York
 * Graduated cum laude from New York Law School in 1912
 * First marriage with Hazel Levy produced two children, Margaret and Robert. Divorced -1942.
 * Second marriage with Betty Field produced three more children: John, Judy, and Paul. Divorced -1956.
 * Third marriage to Barbara Rice, with whom he remained married to until his death in 1967.
 * After deciding to try a life in writing, Rice went on to write at least 13 different plays and 1 novel, //The Show Must Go On//.
 * Rice was given the 1929 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Street Scene
 * Was the first director of the Federal Theatre Project, New York Office. He resigned in protest in of the government's 1936 censorship of the FTP's "Living Newspaper."
 * On Trial (1914)
 * The Home of the Free (1917)
 * <span style="color: #5e3579; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Wake Up, Jonathan (1921)
 * <span style="color: #5e3579; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[|The Adding Machine] (1923)
 * <span style="color: #5e3579; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[|Close Harmony] (1924)
 * <span style="color: #5e3579; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[|Street Scene] (1929)
 * <span style="color: #5e3579; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[|The Voyage to Purilia] (1930
 * <span style="color: #5e3579; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Counsellor-At-Law (1931)
 * <span style="color: #5e3579; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">We, The People (1933)
 * <span style="color: #5e3579; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[|Not for Children] (1934)
 * <span style="color: #5e3579; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Judgment Day (1934)
 * <span style="color: #5e3579; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">A New Life (1943)
 * <span style="color: #5e3579; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[|Dream Girl] (1945)


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