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    Day. Wilder was born in Madison, Wisconsin, the son of Amos Parker Wilder, a newspaper editor and later a U.S. diplomat, and Isabella Thornton Niven...
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    I was always a great admirer of Thornton Wilder." Cohen, Sandy; McShane, Larry (August 29, 2016). "Nephew: Gene Wilder, star of Mel Brooks movies, dies...
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  • drama romance film adaptation of the 1938 play of the same name by Thornton Wilder, starring Martha Scott as Emily Webb, and William Holden as George...
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  • Our Town (category Plays by Thornton Wilder)
    Our Town is a three-act play written by American playwright Thornton Wilder in 1938. Described by Edward Albee as "the greatest American play ever written"...
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    The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder's second novel. It was first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim. The novel won the Pulitzer...
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  • The Eighth Day is a 1967 novel by Thornton Wilder. Set in a mining town in southern Illinois, the plot revolves around John Barrington Ashley, who is...
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  • It was established by Tappan Wilder and Catharine Wilder Guiles, the nephew and niece of Academy member Thornton Wilder (1897–1975), and given for the...
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  • The Ides of March is an epistolary novel by Thornton Wilder that was published in 1948. In the author's words, it is 'a fantasia on certain events and...
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  • Our Town is a play by Thornton Wilder. Our Town may also refer to: Our Town (1940 film), adaptation of the play starring William Holden and Martha Scott...
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    Hitchcock, and starring Teresa Wright and Joseph Cotten. Written by Thornton Wilder, Sally Benson, and Alma Reville, the film was nominated for an Academy...
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    playwright Thornton Wilder, for whom she was literary agent, spokesperson and biographer. Isabel Wilder was the daughter of Isabella and Amos Parker Wilder, publisher...
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    Our Town in which she starred alongside its playwright and director, Thornton Wilder. By the mid-1940s, Stuart was dedicating her time to the pursuit of...
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  • made-for-television film adaptation of the 1938 play of the same name by Thornton Wilder starring Paul Newman, who was nominated for both an Emmy Award and...
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    The Matchmaker (category Plays by Thornton Wilder)
    The Matchmaker is a 1954 Broadway play by Thornton Wilder, a rewritten version of his 1938 play The Merchant of Yonkers. The play has a long and colorful...
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  • North is a 1973 autobiographical novel, the last novel written by Thornton Wilder. In 1988 it was adapted for the film Mr. North. In 1926 Theophilus...
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    Cumming. In 2024, Holmes starred in the Broadway revival of Our Town by Thornton Wilder, portraying Mrs. Webb opposite Richard Thomas, Jim Parsons and Zoey...
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    Retrieved 2021-07-08. Gates, Anita (2006-09-15). "A Young Man's Travels on Thornton Wilder Turf". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-07-08. Blankenship...
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    Williamstown Theatre Festival, Williamstown, MA The Skin of Our Teeth Thornton Wilder Henry Antrobus Williamstown Theatre Festival, Williamstown, MA 2001...
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  • The Long Christmas Dinner (category Plays by Thornton Wilder)
    Dinner is a play in one act written by American novelist and playwright Thornton Wilder in 1931. In its first published form, it was included in the volume...
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  • The Merchant of Yonkers (category Plays by Thornton Wilder)
    The Merchant of Yonkers is a 1938 play by Thornton Wilder. The Merchant of Yonkers had its origins in an 1835 one-act farce A Day Well Spent by the English...
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  • Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield (1927) The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (1928) Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (1929) Laughing Boy by...
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  • Nisargadatta Maharaj, Indian philosopher and educator (d. 1981) 1897 – Thornton Wilder, American novelist and playwright (d. 1975) 1897 – Edouard Wyss-Dunant...
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    Theatre, London. In 2004, she played Sabina in The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder at the Young Vic Theatre Theatre, London. In 2008, she played Nadia...
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  • 11, 1939. p. 12. February 18, 2024. Mines, Harry (April 11, 1939). "Thornton Wilder Discusses Life in 'Our Town'". Los Angeles Daily News. p. 20. Retrieved...
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    new altar to the deified Julius. The Ides of March – a 1948 novel by Thornton Wilder The Ides of March (est. 1964) – an American musical group "The Ides...
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    to Noh plays. Thornton Wilder – Wilder himself expressed his interest in Noh in his "Preface” to Three Plays and his sister Isabel Wilder also confirmed...
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    Beware!. In August 1940, she starred as Emily Webb, opposite Thornton Wilder—under Wilder's own direction—in his play Our Town, which was staged at the...
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    (Stratford, Connecticut), 1975 Repertory (21st) Season, Our Town by Thornton Wilder, pp. 27–33. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fred Gwynne. Biography...
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    the servant of the priest, he went to James and appeared to him." Thornton Wilder wrote a short play entitled, "The Servant's Name Was Malchus"; it appears...
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    E. Sherwood 1937 You Can't Take It with You Moss Hart George S. Kaufman 1938 Our Town Thornton Wilder 1939 Abe Lincoln in Illinois Robert E. Sherwood...
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