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Mary Caswell Orr (December 21, 1910 – September 22, 2006) was an American actress and author whose short story "The Wisdom of Eve", published in the May 1946 issue of ''Cosmopolitan'', was the basis of the Academy Award-winning film ''All About Eve'' (1950). In private life, Orr used her married name, Mary Orr Denham. Orr was born in Brooklyn, New York. She and her family relocated to Canton, Ohio when she was a girl. She studied at Syracuse University and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Manhattan.〔 "The Wisdom of Eve" was loosely based upon a woman who had been the secretary of Viennese actress Elisabeth Bergner.〔 Orr wrote a radio adaptation which aired on NBC in 1949 which led to the movie being made.〔 While she did not receive screen credit for ''All About Eve'' (she had sold the story to Twentieth Century Fox for $5000),〔 she did receive a Screen Writers Guild award for her original story.〔(Awards-Mary Orr )〕 An alternative hypothesis for the Martina Lawrence-Elizabeth Bergner origin〔Sam Stagg (St. Martin's Press, 1st edition, March 18, 2000), ''All About "All About Eve,"'' pp. 319–335〕 was the rivalry between Tallulah Bankhead and Lizabeth Scott (her understudy) during the production of Thorton Wilder's ''The Skin of Our Teeth''. 〔Mary Orr, "The Wisdom of Eve," ''Cosmopolitan'', May 1946, pp. 72–75, 191–95〕 Broadway legend had it that Bankhead was being victimized by Scott, who was supposedly the real-life Eve Harrington.〔Bruce Kirle (Southern Illinois University Press; 1st edition, October 24, 2005), ''Unfinished Show Business: Broadway Musicals as Works-in-process'', p. 191〕 During the eight months〔Dorothy Kilgallen (Thursday, June 24, 1943), "The $64 Questions," ''The Voice Of Broadway'', Times Herald (Olean, New York), p. 13〕 In 1964, Orr and her husband, director-playwright Reginald Denham, adapted the short story into a play of the same name, which was produced off-Broadway in 1979. In 1970, a hit Broadway musical, ''Applause'', was based on ''All About Eve'' and gave a credit to Mary Orr for the original story. She wrote a sequel to "The Wisdom of Eve" titled "More About Eve", which was published in ''Cosmopolitan'' in July 1951.〔 In addition to ''Applause'', Mary Orr and Reginald Denham had four plays that opened on Broadway. Their first and most successful, ''Wallflower'', ran for 192 performances in 1944.〔 ''Round Trip'' was presented in 1945, while ''Dark Hammock'' started its performances in 1946. The fourth, ''Be Your Age'', made its Broadway appearance in 1953.〔〔(WOSU presents Ohiana Authors: Mary Orr )〕 She also acted in Broadway plays, including two of her own: ''Wallflower'' and ''Dark Hammock''.〔 ''Wallflower'' was the basis for a 1948 film of the same name. Alone or with her husband, Orr wrote five books and forty television scripts. Orr died of pneumonia in Manhattan in 2006.〔 She was predeceased by her husband, who died in 1983.〔 ==Books== * ''Diamonds in the Sky'' (1957) * ''A Place to Meet'' (1961) * ''The Tejera Secrets'' (1974) * ''Rich Girl, Poor Girl'' (1975) * ''Lucky Star'' 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「Mary Orr」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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