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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