Martin Brown (writer)
Martin Brown (June 22, 1885 – February 13, 1936) was a Canadian-born American playwright, screenwriter, and actor.
Life and career
Born in Montreal, Canada on June 22, 1885,[1] Brown had a career as an actor in both the United States and England from 1907 to 1915.[2] He made his New York stage debut in 1908 at the Herald Square Theatre as Dudley Cheatham in The Girl Behind the Counter.[1] He appeared in the Broadway casts of several more musicals;[1] including Three Twins (1908, as Ned Maryland),[3] The Motor Girl (1909, as Dick Willoughby),[4] The Belle of Brittany (1909, as Baptiste Boubillon),[5] He Came from Milwaukee (1910, as Bruce Chetwynde),[6] Up and Down Broadway (1910, as Erato),[7] The Kiss Waltz (1911, as Paul von Gervais),[8] The Merry Countess (1912, as Prince Orloffsky),[9] A Night with the Pierrots (1912),[10] The Whirl of Society (1912, as Franklyn Copeland),[11] Vera Violetta (1912, as Andrew Mason),[1] and the Ziegfeld Follies of 1913.[2]
Brown starred in Hullo Tango at the London Hippodrome in 1914.[2] In 1915 he was in the cast of The Belle of Bond Street at the Adelphi Theatre in London's West End.[12] That same year he returned to New York as Bum Lung in the revue Hello, Broadway! at the Astor Theatre.[13] After this he abandoned the stage to work as a writer of plays and film scripts.[2] Many of his plays were staged on Broadway.[2]
He died at Bellevue Hospital in New York City on February 13, 1936.[2]
Partial list of works
Screenplays
- The Desert Man (1917)
- The Garden of Allah (1927)
- The Virtuous Sin (1930); used as the basis for The Night of Decision (1931)
- Java Head (1934)
Stage plays
- A Very Good Young Man (1918); adapted into the film A Very Good Young Man (1919)[14]
- An Innocent Idea (1920)
- The Exciters (1922); adapted into the film The Exciters (1923)[14]
- The Love Child (1922)
- The Lady (1923);[15] adapted into the films The Lady (1925) and The Secret of Madame Blanche (1933)[14]
- Cobra (1924); adapted into the film Cobra[14]
- Great Music (1924);[16] adapted into the film Soul-Fire (1925)[14]
- The Love Thief (1927)
- The Dark (1927)
- The Strawberry Blonde (1927)
- Paris (1928); adapted into the film Paris (1929)[14]
- The Idol (1929); adapted into the film The Mad Genius (1931)[14]
References
Citations
- 1 2 3 4 Benjamin & Rosenblatt 2006, p. 96.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Martin Brown, 51, Playwright Dead". The New York Times. February 14, 1936. p. 19.
- ↑ Dietz 2022, p. 497.
- ↑ Dietz 2022, p. 549.
- ↑ Dietz 2022, p. 569.
- ↑ Dietz 2021, p. 39.
- ↑ Dietz 2021, p. 27.
- ↑ Dietz 2021, p. 100.
- ↑ Dietz 2021, p. 164.
- ↑ Dietz 2021, p. 143.
- ↑ Dietz 2021, p. 142.
- ↑ Wearing 2014, p. 273.
- ↑ Craft 2024, p. 66.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Goble 2011, p. 58.
- ↑ "The Lady". The Brooklyn Daily Times. December 5, 1923. p. 6.
- ↑ "The New Play". The Brooklyn Daily Times. October 6, 1924. p. 6.
References
- Benjamin, Ruth; Rosenblatt, Arthur (2006). "Martin Brown". Who Sang What on Broadway, 1866-1996: Volume I, The Singers A-L. McFarland & Company. ISBN 9780786415069.
- Craft, Elizabeth T. (2024). Yankee Doodle Dandy: George M. Cohan and the Broadway Stage. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780197550403.
- Dietz, Dan (2022). The Complete Book of 1900s Broadway Musicals. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 9781538168943.
- Dietz, Dan (2021). The Complete Book of 1910s Broadway Musicals. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 9781538150283.
- Goble, Alan, ed. (2011). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Bowker-Saur. ISBN 9783110951943.
- Wearing, John Peter (2014). The London Stage 1910–1919: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9780810893009.