THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED: A comedy in three acts.
Pp. xvi+104; printed stiff paper wrappers with flap folds, edges and backstrip slightly browned and a trifle rubbed; fore and bottom edges uncut; a couple of tiny edge chips, a little light foxing; Chatto & Windus, London, 1926. First U.K. edition. Sidney Coe Howard (1891-1939) was an American playwright and screenwriter, who received a posthumous Academy Award in 1940 for the screenplay for Gone with the Wind. Premiered on Broadway in 1924, They Knew What They Wanted won the 1925 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The 1926 London adaptation at St. Martin's Theatre included Tallulah Bankhead in the cast. The play was adapted three times into film (titled The Secret Hour in 1928; and A Lady to Love in 1930, starring Edward G. Robinson), with the 1940 version under the original title directed by Garson Kanin. Later the play was the basis for a 1956 Broadway musical, The Most Happy Fella. Item #137099
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