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Philip Jerome Quinn Barry (June 18, 1896 – December 3, 1949) was an American dramatist best known for his plays Holiday (1928) and The Philadelphia Story (1939), which were both made into films starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant.
Jun 14, 2024 · Philip Barry (born June 18, 1896, Rochester, N.Y., U.S.—died Dec. 3, 1949, New York City) was an American dramatist best known for his comedies of life and manners among the socially privileged.
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Meet the Playwright: Philip Barry – The B-Side. When Holiday opened on Broadway in 1928, Philip Barry was 32 years old. It was his eighth Broadway show. Born in Rochester, NY in 1896 to a wealthy Irish immigrant family, Barry started writing at age 9.
Philip Jerome Quinn Barry was an American dramatist best known for his plays Holiday (1928) and The Philadelphia Story (1939), which were both made into films starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant.
Philip James Quinn Barry was an American playwright, best known for the plays Holiday and The Philadelphia Story, both of which were successfully adapted into movies starring Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn (as well as James Stewart, in The Philadelphia Story).
Rochester, N.Y., grad. Yale, 1919, and studied under George Pierce Baker at Harvard. He is primarily known for his satirical, somewhat unconventional comedies of manners, such as Holiday (1928), Tomorrow and Tomorrow (1931), The Animal Kingdom (1932), and The Philadelphia Story (1939).
