George Kelly (playwright)
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George Edward Kelly (January 16, 1887 – June 18, 1974) was an American playwright, screenwriter, director, and actor. He began his career in vaudeville as an actor and skit writer.
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he was the brother of Olympic champion sculler John B. Kelly, Sr. and the uncle of actress and later princess Grace Kelly, which makes him the maternal great-uncle of Monaco's current reigning monarch Albert II of Monaco. He died in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
His plays include:
- The Torch-Bearers (1923), the basis for the 1935 motion picture Doubting Thomas and the 1939 movie Too Busy to Work
- The Show-off (1924), the basis for the 1926, 1934, and 1946 motion pictures of the same name and the 1930 movie Men Are Like That
- Craig's Wife (1925), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize; the basis for the 1928 and 1936 motion pictures of the same name and the 1950 movie Harriet Craig
- Daisy Mayme (1926)
- Behold, the Bridegroom (1927)
- Maggie the Magnificent (1929)
- Philip Goes Forth (1931)
- Reflected Glory (1936)
- The Deep Mrs. Sykes (1945)
- The Fatal Weakness (1947)
