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The Children's Hour is a 1934 American play by Lillian Hellman. It is a drama set in an all-girls boarding school run by two women, Karen Wright and Martha Dobie. An angry student, Mary Tilford, runs away from the school and, to avoid being sent back, tells her grandmother that the two headmistresses are having a lesbian affair.
The Children's Hour (released as The Loudest Whisper in the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand) is a 1961 American drama film produced and directed by William Wyler from a screenplay by John Michael Hayes, based on the 1934 play of the same title by Lillian Hellman.
The Children’s Hour, drama in three acts about the tragic repercussions of a schoolgirl’s malicious gossip by Lillian Hellman, performed and published in 1934. Hellman based the plot on an actual case in 19th-century Edinburgh that was detailed in the essay “Closed Doors, or The Great Drumsheugh Case” in Bad Companions (1931) by William ...
Lillian Hellman’s The Children’s Hour is a realistic thesis play, in a direct line of descent from the work of the great Norwegian playwright, Henrik Ibsen (A Doll’s House). It is a fair example of the kind of serious play that has dominated the American theater through most of the twentieth century.
17 maj 2024 · Though a prolific writer throughout her life, Hellman is most often associated with her first play, the 1934 The Children's Hour. Progressive for its time, The Children's Hour...
The Children's hour by Hellman, Lillian, 1905-1984, author. Publication date 1981 Topics Women -- Drama, Gossip -- Drama, Students -- Drama, Boarding schools -- Drama, Boarding schools, Gossip, Students, Women Publisher [United States] : Snowball Publishing Collection internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled Contributor
The Children's Hour is a 1934 American play by Lillian Hellman. It is a drama set in an all-girls boarding school run by two women, Karen Wright and Martha D...
