Who is George Kelly?
George Kelly is an American playwright, best known for his plays The Show-Off, Craig’s Wife, and The Torch-Bearers. Born in Pennsylvania in 1887, over the next 87 years he wrote eleven plays, won a Pulitzer Prize, and had a number of film adaptations made of his work. George Kelly is also well-known for his most famous relative, his niece. Grace Kelly was an actress of great renown, starting her career in the theatre with the support of her uncle, and later moving to work for MGM, where she won an Academy Award for her part in The Country Girl, as well as appearing in notable Hitchcock films such as Rear Window and Dial M For Murder. Because of her role in film, Grace Kelly was appointed head of the US delegation to Cannes, where she met Prince Rainier III. The two were soon married, and Grace Kelly became Princess Grace, eventually giving birth to an heir, Albert II, the grand-nephew of George Kelly. Although the vogue of the time George Kelly wrote in, throughout the 1920s and 1930s,
September 3, 1922, Sunday Section: Drama, Music, Page X1, 656 words THERE are a number of facts to be recorded in the case of George Kelly, who achieved somewhat sudden fame last Tuesday night when a comedy of his author ship, “The Torch Bearers,” opened at the Forty-eighth Street Theatre without…
