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Edward Bartlett Cormack (March 19, 1898 - September 26, 1942) was an American actor, playwright, screenwriter, and producer best known for his 1927 Broadway play ''The Racket'', and for working with Howard Hughes and Cecil B. DeMille on several films. ==Early life== Cormack was the son of Scottish-born Edward K. Cormack and Alice E. Cormack. By 1900 his family had moved from Hammond, Indiana to Chicago, Illinois where his father worked in sales.〔''Bartlett Cormack'', (), website of (The Internet Movie Database ), Retrieved 10 May 2010〕 He graduated from University High School, and was accepted at the University of Chicago. While a sophomore, Cormack wrote the play ''Anybody's Girl'', considered to be one of the best ever submitted for the Blackfriars (the student dramatic organization).〔The University of Chicago Magazine, volume 14, November, 1921, page 215〕 Cormack became a member of Maurice Browne's Little Theatre Company in Chicago, but his duties as a general handyman were so demanding he was dismissed from the University as a result of poor class attendance. To gain experience as a writer, he got a job at The Chicago Evening Journal and stayed there a year, covering "hangings, race riots, street car strikes and other diversions characteristic of Mayor Thompson's turbulent town".〔''Enter a New Playwright'', The New York Times, December 4, 1927〕 He left the ''Chicago Evening Journal'' for the ''Chicago American'', working there five years before applying for reinstatement at the University of Chicago. He wrote two more college plays and became engaged, graduating two years later with honors and as a Phi Beta Kappa. He returned to ''The American'', where he wrote features and dramatic criticism. In 1923, he married Adelaide Maurine Bledsoe (1901–1999), the daughter of Samuel T. Bledsoe, who was a president and board chairman of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad.〔''Los Angeles Times, February 2, 1999, Obituary of Adelaide Bledsoe Cormack Kingman'',(), website of (Los Angeles Times ), Retrieved 10 May 2010〕 They would have a son, Thomas Bledsoe Cormack,〔''U.C.L.A. Graduate Engaged to Lieut. Thomas B. Cormack ", The New York Times, June 20, 1950〕 and a daughter, Adelaide Kilbee Cormack.〔''Miss Cormack To Be Married On Coast Jan. 31", The New York Times, November 25, 1958〕 Soon after the wedding, he accepted a position as a press agent for a theater production and the couple moved to New York City.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bartlett Cormack」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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