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    James Avery Hopwood (May 28, 1882 – July 1, 1928) was an American playwright of the Jazz Age. He had four plays running simultaneously on Broadway in...
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  • Hopwood Awards are a major scholarship program at the University of Michigan, founded by Avery Hopwood. Under the terms of the will of Avery Hopwood,...
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    Seven Days (1909) (with Avery Hopwood) Cheer Up (1912) Produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille Tumble In (1919) (with Avery Hopwood) Musical version of...
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    and Ginger Rogers. The story is based on the play The Gold Diggers by Avery Hopwood, which had its Broadway run for 717 performances in 1919 and 1920. The...
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    The term rose in usage after the popularity of Avery Hopwood's play The Gold Diggers in 1919. Hopwood first heard the term in a conversation with Ziegfeld...
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  • play (after No Villain /They Too Arise), for which he won a second Avery Hopwood Award. It was written at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, Michigan...
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  • Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart, which she later adapted (with Avery Hopwood) into the 1920 play The Bat. The first film version of the play was...
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  • state of Washington Avery Gilbert, American geneticist, self-described "smell scientist" and "sensory psychologist" Avery Hopwood (1882–1928), American...
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    on the 1920 Broadway hit play The Bat by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood. Gideon Bell, owner of the Favre Emeralds, receives a letter stating...
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  • Hopwood is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Arthur Tindell Hopwood (1897-1969), British palaeontologist Avery Hopwood, American playwright...
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    sex comedy written by Avery Hopwood that featured risque dialog and a strip poker scene. On November 3, 1921, Woods and Hopwood were called to the chambers...
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  • Younger (c. 1800–c. 1850), British engraver James Avery Hopwood (1882–1928), American playwright James Hopwood Jeans (1877–1946), English physicist, astronomer...
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    the 1920 mystery play The Bat, written by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood, and is the second film version by the same director, previously adapted...
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    Arthur Miller (category Hopwood Award winners)
    Villain. He switched his major to English, and subsequently won the Avery Hopwood Award for No Villain. The award led him to consider that he could have...
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    Michigan in 1931. At the University of Michigan, he received three Avery Hopwood Awards (one in drama and two in literary criticism). He attended graduate...
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  • the 1925 English-language adaptation Naughty Cinderella written by Avery Hopwood. The plays had already been adapted for film once before as Good and...
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    The Demi-Virgin (category Plays by Avery Hopwood)
    The Demi-Virgin is a three-act play written by Avery Hopwood. Producer Albert H. Woods staged it on Broadway, where it was a hit during the 1921–22 season...
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    both humorous and sad. The screenplay was adapted from a comedy by Avery Hopwood. A Perfect Lady (1918) was released in December and was taken from a...
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  • starring Charlotte Ives and House Peters. It was based on a 1906 play by Avery Hopwood and Channing Pollock. Charlotte Ives - Olive Sherwood House Peters -...
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    Preston Sturges, based on the 1924 play The Best People by David Gray and Avery Hopwood. Fast and Loose was released by Paramount Pictures. Other films or TV...
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  • (1959 film) The Bat (play), a 1920 play by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood The Bat (novel), a 1997 detective novel by Jo Nesbø The Bat (pulp fiction...
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    murderer's identity. The success of both the Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood play The Bat (1920), as well as the 1922 stage play The Cat and the...
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    novel by Mary Roberts Rinehart (dramatized on stage by Rinehart and Avery Hopwood); Alibi (1929), for which he nominated for Academy Award for Best Picture;...
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  • others. David received his BA and MA at U of M where he twice won the Avery Hopwood Award. David became an editor at Esquire Magazine. He co-created the...
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    stage play The Bat. Rinehart started working on the play in 1917 with Avery Hopwood; they made a number of alterations to the source to prepare it for the...
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    It is based on the 1920 play Ladies' Night by Charlton Andrews and Avery Hopwood. It was released on April 1, 1928 by First National Pictures. Dorothy...
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  • H. F. Maltby, Smithers in Married by Proxy by Avery Hopwood, Peter in Fair and Warmer by Avery Hopwood, Hunter in Ten Minute Alibi by William Armstrong...
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    Vic Theatre, London 1937 The Bat Anderson Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood Embassy Theatre A Ship Comes Home Christopher Drew Daisy Fisher St Martins...
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    The Bat (play) (category Plays by Avery Hopwood)
    The Bat is a three-act play by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood that was first produced by Lincoln Wagenhals and Collin Kemper in 1920. The story...
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  • album True Colours (Level 42 album) Seven Days (play), a 1909 play by Avery Hopwood and Mary Roberts Rinehart 7 Days Inn, Chinese budget hotel chain Seven...
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