Charles MacArthur's significance as a playwright lies in his contribution to the development of American comedy in the 1920s and 1930s. The slick, unrestrained, confidently wisecracking slices of life...
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Though he spent much of his mature life in New York as a playwright and in Hollywood as a screenwriter, it is as a Chicago journalist that Charles MacArthur left an indelible mark on the American scen...
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Charles Gordon MacArthur was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. One of seven children, he was the son of a self-proclaimed evangelical minister, William T. MacArthur, and of Georgiana Welstead MacArthur,...
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Charles MacArthur