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A Majority of One is a 1961 American comedy film directed by Mervyn LeRoy, starring Rosalind Russell and Alec Guinness. It was adapted from the play of the same name by Leonard Spigelgass, which was a Broadway hit in the 1959-1960 season, starring Gertrude Berg and Cedric Hardwicke.
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References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Wood, Bethany (2010). "War and Reclamation: Alice Dunbar-Nelson's Mine Eyes Have Seen and The Crisis's Campaign to Reclaim Black Masculinity in a Nation at War". New England Theatre Journal.
- 1 2 Dunbar Nelson, Alice (1918). "The Crisis". Mine Eyes Have Seen.
- ↑ Brown-Guillory, Elizabeth (1988). Their Place on the Stage: Black Women Playwrights in America. New York City, New York: Greenwood Press. ISBN 9780313259852 – via Internet Archive.
- 1 2 Mitchell, Koritha (2006). "(Anti-) Lynching Plays: Angelina Weld Grimké, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and the Evolution of African American Drama". SelectedWorks of Koritha Mitchell.
- ↑ Cardinal, Agnes. War Plays by Women: An International Anthology. pp. 27–29.