george bernard shaw

     

The only Oscar winner also to win a Nobel Prize, this European won a 1938 Oscar for adapting his own play

Trivia about george bernard shaw

  • Mrs. Patrick Campbell said of this vegetarian, "God help us if he should ever eat a beefsteak"
  • On his death in 1950, he left part of his estate to promote a new phonetic alphabet
  • This "Saint Joan" playwright hated Shakespeare so much it would "Be a relief to...dig him up and throw stones at him"
  • In 1899 he reinterpreted the story of Caesar & Cleopatra using modern allusions
  • He claimed he was in love with Mrs. Patrick Campbell and wrote the role of Eliza Doolittle for her
  • As a young congressman, LBJ escorted this author of "Pygmalion" around Texas
  • As a music critic, this playwright signed his essays first as "Corno di Bassetto", then as "G.B.S."
  • His "Pygmalion" includes the line "I shall make a duchess of this draggletailed guttersnipe"
  • 26 years after writing it for the stage, he won Oscar for the screenplay "Pygmalion"
  • "Don Juan in Hell", Act III of this playwright's "Man and Superman", is often performed separately
  • This writer, "GBS", died on Nov. 2, 1950
  • He noted, "The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty" in his preface to "Major Barbara"
  • A Shavian isn't a clean-shaven man; it's a devotee of this bearded playwright
  • He claimed his comic masterpiece "Pygmalion" was a didactic play about phonetics
  • His play "Arms And The Man" includes the line "Oh, you are a very poor soldier: a chocolate cream soldier!"
  • This fellow playwright & wit said that in hard times Wilde maintained his "gaiety of soul"
  • Did you or did you not write, in "Man and Superman", "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it"
  • In 1948 he had 3 plays on Broadway: "John Bull's Other Island", "You Never Can Tell" & "Man & Superman"
  • John Millington Synge wasn't born on Dublin's Synge St.; this other 3-named playwright was
  • Critics weren't all kind to a revival of "Arms and the Man" by this playwright & critic
  • His play "Man and Superman" is subtitled "A Comedy and a Philosophy"
  • His 1891 essay "The Quintessence of Ibsenism" promoted the realistic dramas of a fellow playwright
  • "Pygmalion"
  • In a play by this man, Captain Shotover is the eccentric owner of Heartbreak House
  • "But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth", he wrote in "Man and Superman"
  • Yeats described this "Arms And The Man" playwright as "An athiest who trembles in the haunted corridor"
  • A funny Irish dramatist seen here around 1923
  • Talk about "Man & Superman", this super literary hunk strikes a pose here
  • English actress Ellen Terry has a famous "paper courtship" with this playwright that lasted for decades
  • "The Doctor's Dilemma" dramatist(4)
  • This Dublin-born redhead, called the most important British dramatist since Shakespeare, won a 1925 Nobel Prize
  • He completed his last play, "Buoyant Billions", when he was 92
  • This Irishman wrote 5 novels but none was successful; the over 50 plays during his career turned out better