Joseph Kesselring

Nascimento : 1902-06-21, New York City, New York, USA

Morte : 1967-11-05

História

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Joseph Otto Kesselring (21 July 1902 – 5 November 1967) was an American writer and playwright known best for his play Arsenic and Old Lace, written in 1939 and originally entitled "Bodies in Our Cellar." He was born in New York City to Henry and Frances Kesselring. His father's parent's were immigrants from Germany. His mother was an English Canadian.  Kesselring spent much of his life in and around the theater. In 1922 he began teaching vocal music and directed stage productions at Bethel College in North Newton, Kansas. After two years, Kesselring left teaching and returned to the stage, working for two years with an amateur theatrical group in Niagara, New York.  He began working as a freelance playwright in 1933, completing 12 original plays, of which four were produced on Broadway: Wisdom in Women (1935), Arsenic and Old Lace (1941), Four Twelves are 48 (1951), and Mother of that Wisdom (1963). Kesselring died in Kingston, New York in 1967 at the age of 65. In 1980, the National Arts Club created the Joseph Kesselring Prize for up-and-coming playwrights. It was funded by Kesselring's widow, Charlotte. Among the playwrights who have won the prize are Tony Kushner, David Adjmi, Doug Wright, Anna Deavere Smith, David Auburn, Rajiv Joseph, Melissa James Gibson, Jo Carson, Nicky Silver, David Lindsay-Abaire, Jose Rivera, Naomi Wallace, Philip Kan Gotanda, Kira Obolensky, Tracey Scott Wilson, and Marion McClinton. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joseph Kesselring, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.    

Filmes

Arseniko kai palia dantela
Writer
Members of an otherwise typical New York Brooklyn family are "tortured" by a kind of hereditary madness. In the meantime, the adopted nephew Mortimer tries to do everything to protect his two aunts, who indulge in a variety of dangerous acts, such as poisoning lonely and homeless elderly people, and burying them in the basement of their house. When another niece, Jonathan, arrives, the situation will spiral out of control. The play was released on DVD by Radiotileorasi magazine in December 2010 (78th DVD of the "ERT Cultural Film Archive" series).
Arsenic and Old Lace
Theatre Play
A drama critic learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are homicidal maniacs, and that insanity runs in his family.
Arsenic & Old Lace
Writer
1962 telefilm adaptation of the classic American play about a deranged family and the string of murders they flippantly commit
Esse Mundo é um Hospício
Theatre Play
Mortimer Brewster é um jornalista e escritor conhecido por suas implicância com o casamento. Logo na cena de abertura nós vemos ele se casar na prefeitura. Agora, só falta uma rápida viagem para casa para informar as tias solteironas de Mortimer. Ao tentar dar a notícia, ele descobre o passatempo de suas tias: matar velhos solitários, como se fosse um ato de caridade, e enterrá-los no porão. E vai ficar pior.