| 词条 | Kenneth Horne (writer) |
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BiographyKenneth Horne was born in Westminster, London, on 28 April 1900.[2] He read many works by George Bernard Shaw, and later the two men shared the same manager.[4] During the Second World War, Horne worked in the Air Ministry.[2] Horne was married twice[2] and had three sons, antiquities dealer Jonathan Horne, who was born on 13 November 1940 in Cornwall,[7] Christopher, and Nicolas; Horne also had a daughter, Judith.[4] He spent some time living in Croydon, Surrey.[7] Horne's first play to be performed in the West End of London was in 1934.[4] In 1940 Horne wrote The Good Young Man, about a missionary's son from Papua New Guinea who goes to England to visit his family and find a wife. This was followed in 1941 with Love In A Mist, about a secretary and her boss' son who go on a weekend in Exmoor, only for the secretary to attempt to escape from her date.[4] Horne's last play to be performed at the West End, A Public Mischief, ran in St Martin's Theatre in 1965. The play was about a woman who elopes with her lover while making her escape appear to be a boating accident. Though it received poor reviews,[12] this play was later adapted to television.[4] Horne's last play, The Coming Out Party, was performed in Bromley in 1970.[4] Horne made his film debut as a screenwriter in 1938's Almost a Honeymoon, adapting the farce of the same name by Walter Ellis. He wrote three further screenplays or scripts: Two Dozen Red Roses, a 1952 BBC television adaption from a work by Italian screenwriter Aldo de Benedetti; Aunt Clara in 1954, and On the Bridon Beat in 1964.[16] Horne also recorded voice commentary, sometimes as a narrator, for several films and shorts, including in The Fibre Web (1963), The Story of Moses (1964), and Down Boy! (1964). He managed the dialogue for Fools Rush In, a 1949 comedy directed by John Paddy Carstairs.[16] Horne died of cancer[4] on 5 June 1975.[2] ThemesHorne's work often dealt with conflicting 19th and 20th century values, as well as the opposition of instinct and morality. As with his contemporary, Noël Coward, Horne challenged traditional speech patterns in British comedies, though where Coward's characters remain outrageous, Horne's ultimately return to what is expected from society.[4] Many of Horne's plays feature young, often virginal women who, in their burgeoning sexuality, "offer themselves up, with some degree of apprehension, for ravishment."[4] Actor George Cole, who appeared in the West Side run of A Public Mischief, wrote of Horne's style: "Kenneth Horne's scripts were always carefully crafted to let the humour come naturally without being forced. He insisted that, in order to work properly, comedy should always be played straight".[12] LegacyHorne's grandson, the English writer Robert Farrar, describes Horne as "school-of-Moliere, a pleaser, an artist of the depression and the war years whose brief was to make an audience feel safe and loved. You could put on your nicest clothes, turn up at the theatre and know beyond a shadow of a doubt that you were going to have good time."[4] Partial bibliographyThe following list is derived from Horne's published work, as catalogued at WorldCat.
References1. ^1 {{cite web|title=Kenneth Horne|url=http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/GLD/hits?r=d&origSearch=true&o=DataType&n=10&l=d&c=1&locID=wes_ttda&secondary=false&u=CA&t=KW&s=2&NA=kenneth+horne|work=Contemporary Authors|publisher=Gale|accessdate=20 January 2014}} {{subscription}} [1][2][3][4][5][6]2. ^1 2 {{cite book |last=Cole|first=George|authorlink=George Cole (actor)|title=George Cole - The World Was My Lobster: The Autobiography |publisher=John Blake |year=2013|location=London|isbn=9781782194699 |page=?}} 3. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 {{cite web|title=Article: My grandfather Kenneth Horne, playwright |url=http://www.psychodrome.co.uk/Article-My-grandfather-Kenneth-Horne-playwright |last=Farrar |first=Robert |year=2009 |accessdate=22 January 2014 |archivedate=22 January 2014 |work=Psychodrome.co.uk |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6Mny3mXve?url=http://www.psychodrome.co.uk/Article-My-grandfather-Kenneth-Horne-playwright |deadurl=yes |df= }} 4. ^1 2 {{cite web|title=Filmography: Horne, Kenneth |url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/28304?view=credit |publisher=British Film Institute |accessdate=22 January 2014 |archivedate=22 January 2014 |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6MoPm1SEZ?url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/28304?view=credit |deadurl=yes |df= }} 5. ^1 2 {{cite web|title=Jonathan Horne |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/art-obituaries/7886199/Jonathan-Horne.html |date=12 July 2010 |accessdate=22 January 2014 |archivedate=22 January 2014 |work=The Telegraph |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6MnzfW9lc?url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/art-obituaries/7886199/Jonathan-Horne.html |deadurl=yes |df= }} 6. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{cite news|title=Obituary: Mr Kenneth Horne|newspaper=The Times|date=6 June 1975|location=London|page=17}} }} External links
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