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The Green Pastures is a play written in 1929 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 .
"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).
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 1895; Green Pastures (Middleburg, Virginia), a historic home designed by Penrose Stout; Green Pastures Hospital, a hospital in Pokhara, Nepal
Reginald Fenderson was an actor on the stage version and road tour of Green Pastures, playing the characters Joshua and the magician for at least five years. [3] He played a feature role in the 1939 film Reform School , [ 4 ] as an inmate named Freddie Gordon.
This list is incomplete; it captures only a few of Miller pamphlets, of which there are several dozen. Some publications have alternative titles (e.g. one of Miller's best selling works, Bits of Pasture was renamed In Green Pastures). Other books known to exist are: The Garden of the Heart (Hodder and Stoughton, 1910, copyright 1906)
The book was soon adapted to a play The Green Pastures by Marc Connelly which won the 1930 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. [2] This was later made into the 1936 movie The Green Pastures. Black actor Mantan Moreland adapted it for Caedmon Records based on material in the book. [1]
Johnson and his choir became renowned through their participation in the 1930 Broadway production of Marc Connelly's The Green Pastures [4] as well as in national and international tours of the play, radio versions, the 1936 film adaptation, and Hallmark Hall of Fame television broadcasts.