Everything about Howard Lindsay totally explained
Howard Lindsay (
March 29,
1889 -
February 11,
1968) was a
Broadway producer,
playwright,
librettist,
director and
actor. He was born Herman S. Nelke and graduated from
Boston Latin School in 1907.
Born in
Waterford,
New York, he's best known for his writing work as part of the collaboration of
Lindsay and Crouse, and for his performance, with his wife
Dorothy Stickney, in the long-running play
Life with Father.
The
1957 Rodgers and Hammerstein television musical,
Cinderella, recently revived by
PBS, featured Lindsay and Stickney playing the roles of the King and Queen, one of the few times a Lindsay performance has been captured on film.
Together with co-writer
Russel Crouse, Lindsay won the
Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the 1946 play
State of the Union, which was adapted into a film directed by
Frank Capra two years later. In 1960, the team won a
Tony Award for Best Musical for
The Sound of Music. Their last collaboration was
Mr. President with
Irving Berlin in 1962.
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