| 词条 | Owen Davis |
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| name = Owen Davis | image = Owen-Davis-1950.jpg | caption = Owen Davis in 1950 | pseudonym = John Oliver | birth_name = Owen Gould Davis | birth_date = {{birth date|mf=yes|1874|01|29}} | birth_place = Portland, Maine, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|1956|10|14|1874|01|29}} | death_place = New York City, New York, U.S. | occupation = Playwright, screenwriter | nationality = American | alma_mater = Harvard University | spouse = Elizabeth Breyer | children = Owen Davis, Jr. Donald Davis | awards = {{nowrap|Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1923)}} }}Owen Gould Davis (January 29, 1874 – October 14, 1956) was an American dramatist. In 1919, he became the first elected president of the Dramatists Guild of America. He received the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his 1923 play Icebound,[1] and penned hundreds of plays and scripts for radio and film. Before the First World War, he also wrote racy sketches of New York high jinks and low life for the Police Gazette under the name of Ike Swift. Many of these were set in the Tenderloin, Manhattan. Davis also wrote under several other pseudonyms, including Martin Hurley, Arthur J. Lamb, Walter Lawrence, John Oliver, and Robert Wayne.[2] Personal lifeDavis was born in Portland, Maine,[3] and lived in Bangor until he was 15. His parents were iron manufacturer Owen Warren Davis and Abigail Augusta Gould.[4] He was the father of actor Owen Davis Jr., and playwright Donald Davis. His brother William Hammatt Davis was chairman of the National War Labor Board in Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration. Davis died in New York City. As a boy, Owen Davis wrote plays for his eight brothers and sisters, who performed them for the town. He attended the University of Tennessee in 1888-1889 and then transferred to Harvard University in 1890, spending three years there. At Harvard, he was active with the Society of Arts drama organization. For a time, he coached a New York preparatory school's football team.[5] He married Elizabeth Drury Breyer, an actress, in 1901 or 1902, and they had two sons.[4] CareerFor the first two decades of his writing career, Davis produced melodramas that followed a formula. His entry in the Encyclopedia of American Drama, edited by Jackson R. Bryer and Mary C. Hartig, noted, "The plays all contain life-threatening, visually exciting predicaments out of which the good emerge at the ultimate expense of the villains who put them there."[6] StageIn 1897, Through the Breakers, Davis's first play, opened in Bridgeport, Connecticut. It ran for three years.[3] His first Broadway play was Reaping the Whirlwind, which opened on September 17, 1900. The Internet Broadway Database lists 75 additional productions that were written by him, either under his own name or as John Oliver, or in which he was involved in some way.[7] FilmDavis was on the staff of Paramount Pictures as a screenwriter from 1927 to 1930. His work during that time included They Had to See Paris (1929) and So This Is London (1930), both of which starred Will Rogers.[3] RadioDavis wrote scripts for the old-time radio program The Gibson Family, which presented each episode in the form of a Broadway musical. [8]BooksDavis wrote two autobiographies, I'd Like to Do It Again, which was published in 1931,[9] and My First Fifty Years in the Theatre, which focused on the years 1897-1947.[3] DeathOn October 13, 1956, Davis died in New York City at age 82. He had recently been released from a hospital after a three-year stay. He was survived by his wife, their son, a brother, and a sister.[10] Bibliography
References1. ^{{cite web|title=1923 Pulitzer Prizes|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/1923|website=The Pulitzer Prizes|accessdate=20 January 2018|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20160619044358/http://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/1923|archivedate=June 19, 2016|deadurl=yes|df=mdy-all}} 2. ^{{cite book |title=The Facts on File Companion to American Drama |editor1-first=Jackson R. |editor1-last=Bryer |editor2-first=Mary C. |editor2-last=Hartig |publisher=Facts on File |location=New York |edition=2nd |year=2010 |isbn=978-0-8160-7748-9 |pages=119–120}} 3. ^1 2 3 {{cite book|last1=Roberts|first1=Jerry|title=The Great American Playwrights on the Screen: A Critical Guide to Film, Video, and DVD|date=2003|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|isbn=9781557835123|page=129|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ciwdL9jp0OoC&pg=PA129&dq=%22Owen+Gould+Davis%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiki92msOXYAhWC54MKHUP7Ae8Q6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&q=%22Owen%20Gould%20Davis%22&f=false|accessdate=20 January 2018}} 4. ^1 {{cite web|authorlink=Brooks McNamara|last1=McNamara|first1=Brooks|title=Davis, Owen Gould|url=http://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-1600427|website=American National Biography|publisher=Oxford University Press|accessdate=20 January 2018|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20180120033500/http://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-1600427|archivedate=January 20, 2018|deadurl=yes|df=mdy-all}} 5. ^{{cite book|last1=Fischer|first1=Heinz Dietrich|last2=Fischer|first2=Erika J.|title=Complete Biographical Encyclopedia of Pulitzer Prize Winners, 1917-2000: Journalists, Writers and Composers on Their Ways to the Coveted Awards|date=2002|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=9783598301865|pages=53-54|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-2o4Ywn4LJwC&pg=PA54&dq=%22Owen+Davis%22+writer&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjRt8ikvuXYAhXL8YMKHVjyCU4Q6AEIajAL#v=onepage&q=%22Owen%20Davis%22%20writer&f=false|accessdate=20 January 2018}} 6. ^{{cite book|last1=Bryer|first1=Jackson R.|last2=Hartig|first2=Mary C.|title=Encyclopedia of American Drama|date=2015|publisher=Infobase Learning|isbn=9781438140766|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UJ5bAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT366&dq=%22Owen+Davis%22+writer&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjRt8ikvuXYAhXL8YMKHVjyCU4Q6AEIejAO#v=onepage&q=%22Owen%20Davis%22%20writer&f=false|accessdate=20 January 2018}} 7. ^{{cite web|title=Owen Davis|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/owen-davis-7980|website=Internet Broadway Database|publisher=The Broadway League|accessdate=20 January 2018|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20180120021634/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/owen-davis-7980|archivedate=January 20, 2018|deadurl=yes|df=mdy-all}} 8. ^{{cite book|last1=Ellett|first1=Ryan|title=Radio Drama and Comedy Writers, 1928-1962|date=2017|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9781476665931|page=59|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SME8DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA59&dq=%22Owen+Davis%22+writer&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjRt8ikvuXYAhXL8YMKHVjyCU4Q6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&q=%22Owen%20Davis%22%20writer&f=false|accessdate=20 January 2018}} 9. ^{{cite book|last1=Bryer|first1=Jackson R.|last2=Hartig|first2=Mary C.|title=The Facts on File Companion to American Drama|date=2010|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=9781438129662|page=120|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A4grSoWwXSwC&pg=PA120&dq=%22Owen+Davis%22+writer&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjRt8ikvuXYAhXL8YMKHVjyCU4Q6AEIzAEwHQ#v=onepage&q=%22Owen%20Davis%22%20writer&f=false|accessdate=20 January 2018}} 10. ^{{cite news|title=Owen Davis, Playwright, Dies in N.Y.|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16692947/owen_davis/|work=Chicago Tribune|date=October 15, 1956|location=Illinois, Chicago|page=77|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = January 19, 2018}} {{Open access}} Further reading
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6 : 1874 births|1956 deaths|Writers from Portland, Maine|Writers from Bangor, Maine|American dramatists and playwrights|Pulitzer Prize for Drama winners |
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