| 词条 | Jacob Ben-Ami |
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He was born and grew up in Russia, performing in various acting troupes, before emigrating to the United States in 1912.[1][6] He had a long and distinguished international career, including acting in, staging and directing a number of Broadway plays.[7] In 1918, he founded[5][8] or co-founded[2] the Jewish Art Theatre.[4] Ben-Ami's first English-language production was the 1920 Broadway play Samson and Delilah. According to biographer Alan Gansberg in Little Caesar: A Biography of Edward G. Robinson, Ben-Ami earned Robinson's disdain by allegedly trying to upstage the other actors and overacting.[9] Both the play and Ben-Ami, however, were hits.[9] In her 1921 review of the production, Dorothy Parker proclaimed him "one of the greatest actors on the stage today."[10] He was also lauded by John Barrymore ("inspired"), The New York Times and Alexander Woollcott ("the cocktail question of the year was 'Ben-Ami or not Ben-Ami'"), among others.[11] He had much less success in Eugene O'Neill's 1924 play Welded, in which he starred. Among other problems, the style of play did not suit Ben-Ami, and he had a thick accent.[12] Welded closed after three weeks and 24 performances. On the other hand, his last Broadway play was The Tenth Man, written by Paddy Chayefsky; it had one of the longer runs on Broadway at 623 performances from November 5, 1959, to May 13, 1961.[13] As an established star, Ben-Ami helped the then-unknown John Garfield get accepted into the American Laboratory Theater.[14] He also co-directed the 1937 film Green Fields with Edgar G. Ulmer and appeared in the films The Wandering Jew (1933) and Esperanza (1949), and on television.[15] His niece is the actress and film director Jennifer Warren. See also
References1. ^1 {{cite web |url=http://archives.nypl.org/the/18831 |title=Jacob Ben-Ami scripts: 1927-1967 |publisher=New York Public Library}} 2. ^1 {{cite web |url=http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/yt/lex/B/ben-ami-jacob.htm |title=Jacob Ben-Ami |publisher=Museum of Family History}} 3. ^{{cite news |url=http://www.jta.org/1977/07/26/archive/jacob-ben-ami-dead-at-86 |title=Jacob Ben-ami Dead at 86 |date=July 26, 1977 |agency=Jewish Telegraphic Agency}} 4. ^1 {{cite news|url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0713FE345F167493C1AB178CD85F438785F9 |newspaper=The New York Times |first=Anna |last=Quindlen |title=Jacob Ben-Ami Actor, Dies at 86; A Founder of Jewish Art Theater; Helped to Make Stage More Realistic and Less Farcical |date=July 23, 1977}} 5. ^1 {{cite book |last1=Nahshon |first1=Edna |title=New York's Yiddish Theater: From the Bowery to Broadway |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ku0dDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA156 |accessdate=May 16, 2016 |date=February 2, 2016 |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=9780231541077 |page=156}} 6. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095458181 |title=Jacob Ben-Ami |publisher=Oxford University Press}} 7. ^1 {{IBDB name|14154}} 8. ^{{cite web |url=http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/yiddish-theater-in-united-states |title=Yiddish Theater in the United States |author=Nahma Sandrow |publisher=Jewish Women's Archive}} 9. ^1 {{cite book |last=Gansberg |first=Alan L. |title=Little Caesar: A Biography of Edward G. Robinson |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pOtGs2gBwCEC&pg=PA24 |accessdate=May 16, 2016 |date=May 18, 2004 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=9780810849501 |page=24}} 10. ^{{cite book |last1=Parker |first1=Dorothy |last2=Fitzpatrick |first2=Kevin C. |title=Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V26PAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA185 |accessdate=May 16, 2016 |date=May 1, 2014 |publisher=iUniverse |isbn=9781491722664 |page=185}} 11. ^{{cite book |last=Sandrow |first=Nahma |title=Vagabond Stars: A World History of Yiddish Theater|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ABnQTU7xYJ8C&pg=PA274 |accessdate=May 16, 2016 |year=1996 |publisher=Syracuse University Press |isbn=9780815603290 |page=274}} 12. ^{{cite book|last=Shafer|first=Ivonne|title=Eugene O'Neill and American Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JvyoeQiq2IEC&pg=PA97|accessdate=May 16, 2016|date=November 28, 2011|publisher=Universitat de València|isbn=9788437083506|pages=97–98}} 13. ^{{Ibdb title|2794|The Tenth Man}} 14. ^{{cite book |last=McGrath |first=Patrick J. |title=John Garfield: The Illustrated Career in Films and on Stage |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xtIarL3_y5YC&pg=PA5 |accessdate=May 16, 2016 |date=January 1, 1993 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=9780899508672 |page=5}} 15. ^{{IMDb name|0070003}} External links
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