Picture of Lillian Hellman, author of The Children's Hour, The Little Foxes, and other plays; playwright / dramatist; twentieth century American Literature and drama
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Lillian Hellman on Telling
On this day in 1934, Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour opened on Broadway. The play was based on a student-teacher scandal in Edinburgh in 1809; although banned in some cities for its lesbian overtones, it began the string of hits that made Hellman one of the most popular playwrights in mid-century America, and eventually brought her into collision with Senator McCarthy.
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November 20, 2009
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