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Leueen McGrath

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Book Writer

Also credited on1 work

Silk Stockings

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In the literature2 passages

  • At the time, Kaufman lived in a penthouse overlooking Park Avenue with his second wife, Leueen McGrath, a woman of such delicate radiance that she illuminated even rooms crowded with movie stars. That she was twenty-five years younger than the sixty-year-old Kaufman seemed only an insignificant detail. After all, he was the legendary “swo…ebooks/Feuer, Cy/B003L77WUK EBOK - Cy Feuer & Ken Gross.txt
  • American Drama Leueen McGrath, whom he married, he wrote The Small Hours (1951), Fancy Meeting You Again (1952), and the book for the Cole Porter musical Silk Stockings (1955). Among the newer playwrights active in the forties were such talents as John Steinbeck (1902-1968), Lillian Paul Osbom, William Saroyan, Hellman (1905), Rose Franke…theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 1 (A-C).txt

Passages naming this person, found by keyword across 178 books. A keyword match is not a biography, and a common name will pull in the wrong one.

What this page does not know

  • What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
  • Any staging. This name appears in no production cast list we hold — 1,877 of 7,139 people are in that position, most of them writers, composers and designers rather than performers.
  • Birth or death year. Neither is on the record.
  • Any biography.
  • Any portrait. 1,626 of 7,139 people have one, so this is the usual case rather than the exception.
  • Which of the credits above the roles on this record — book writer — apply to. The roles sit on the person and never on a credit, so a director who also acted looks the same here as one who did not.

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