Ketti Frings
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Frings in May 1958
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| Born | Katherine Hartley 28 February 1909 Columbus, Ohio, USA |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Alma mater | Principia College |
| Spouse | Kurt Frings (m. 1939-1963) |
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| Magnum opus | Walking Happy (1967) Look Homeward, Angel (1958) |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1958) |
Ketti Frings (28 February 1909 – 11 February 1981) was an American author, playwright, and screenwriter who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1958.
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Biography
Early years
Born Katherine Hartley in Columbus, Ohio, Frings attended Principia College, began her career as a copywriter, and went on to work as a feature writer for United Press International.
Career
In 1941 her novel Hold Back the Dawn was adapted for the screen. The resulting movie was directed by Mitchell Leisen and starred Olivia de Havilland and Charles Boyer. She wrote her first Broadway play, Mr. Sycamore, in 1942. The play featured Lillian Gish and Stuart Erwin in the lead roles.
Her Hollywood screenplays include Guest in the House (1944), The File on Thelma Jordon (1950), Come Back, Little Sheba (1952), About Mrs. Leslie (1954), The Shrike (1955), and Foxfire (1955).
Frings adapted the Thomas Wolfe novel Look Homeward, Angel into a play of the same name that opened on Broadway in 1957 and ran for 564 performances at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. It received six Tony Award nominations[citation needed] and Frings won the annual Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1958.[1] She was named "Woman of the Year" by The Los Angeles Times in the same year.
Personal life
Frings was married to Kurt Frings from 1938 to 1963 with whom she had two children; Kathie and Peter. She died of cancer in Los Angeles.
Bibliography
- Hold Back the Dawn (novel) 1940
- Mr. Sycamore (play) 1942
- God's Front Porch (novel) 1944
- Look Homeward, Angel (play) 1957
- The Long Dream (play) 1960
- Walking Happy (play) 1966
References
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- Contemporary Authors Online Gale, 2004.
External links
- Ketti Frings at the Internet Broadway DatabaseLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Ketti Frings at the Internet Movie Database
- Ketti Frings at Library of Congress Authorities, with 15 catalog records
- Articles with unsourced statements from November 2013
- 1909 births
- 1981 deaths
- American screenwriters
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama winners
- People from Columbus, Ohio
- Principia College alumni
- American women screenwriters
- Writers from Ohio
- Cancer deaths in California
- American women dramatists and playwrights
- 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights
- 20th-century women writers
- Women Pulitzer Prize winners
