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The Green Pastures is a play written in 1930 by Marc Connelly adapted from Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun (1928), a collection of stories written by Roark Bradford. [1] The play was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1930. [2] It had the first all-black Broadway cast.
The Green Pastures is a 1936 American film depicting stories from the Bible as visualized by black characters. It starred Rex Ingram (in several roles, including " De Lawd "), Oscar Polk , and Eddie "Rochester" Anderson .
Connelly received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for The Green Pastures in 1930. [3] The play, a re-telling of episodes from the Old Testament, was staged with the first all-black Broadway cast. He contributed verse and articles to Life, Everybody's, and other magazines. Connelly was a drama teacher at Yale University from 1946 to 1950. [4]
"The Green Pastures" was an American television play first broadcast on NBC on October 17, 1957, as part of the television series Hallmark Hall of Fame. It was adapted from Marc Connelly's 1930 Pulitzer Prize–winning play which was in turn adapted from Roark Bradford's Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun (1928).
Green Pastures may refer to: The Green Pastures, a 1930 play by Marc Connelly; The Green Pastures, a 1936 film adaptation by Mark Connelly; The Green Pastures (Hallmark Hall of Fame), a 1957 telefilm adaptation; Green Pastures (Sandwich, New Hampshire), a historic summer estate; Green Pastures (Austin, Texas), a historic Victorian home built in ...
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Cabin in the Sky is a musical with music by Vernon Duke, book by Lynn Root, and lyrics by John Latouche.The musical opened on Broadway in 1940. [1] The show is described as a "parable of Southern Negro Life with echoes of Ferenc Molnár's Liliom (which would be turned into the musical Carousel) and Marc Connelly's The Green Pastures."