Product Description
Actress Colleen Dewhurst (1926-1991) is best remembered for her seminal characterizations in the plays of Eugene O'Neill, which highlighted a forty-year career on stage, screen, and television. Though known for her portrayals of tragic heroines, Dewhurst also played comic roles and played Murphy Brown's mother for three seasons in that television series. At her death, she left an indelible mark in American theater, but, curiously, little written commentary beyond reviews and journalistic articles. This study documents her diverse performance careers, with information also on her personal life and participation in political and philanthropic causes. An extensive productions section lists all roles in all media, providing credits, synopses, and review citations. This is supplemented by an annotated bibliography of reviews and other writings, a list of awards, a biography, and a chronology, all carefully cross-referenced and indexed.
About the Author
BARBARA LEE HORN is Assistant Professor in the Department of Speech, Communication Sciences, and Theatre at at St. John's University, Jamaica, N.Y. She is the author of The Age of Hair: Evolution and Impact of Broadway's First Rock Musical (Greewood Press 1991) and two previous volumes in Greenwood's series Bio-Bibliographies in the Performing Arts, Joseph Papp: A Bio-Bibliography (1992) and David Merrick: A Bio-Bibliography (1992).
