Kenneth Macgowan (30 November 1888, Winthrop, Massachusetts - 27 April 1963, West Los Angeles) began his career as a drama critic. He wrote many books on the modern theater including The Theatre of Tomorrow (1921), Continental Stagecraft (1922) with Robert Edmond Jones, Masks and Demons (1923) with Herman Rosse, and Footlights Across America (1929). In 1922, he ran the Provincetown Playhouse as its producer, with Eugene O'Neill and Robert Edmond ...
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Kenneth Macgowan (30 November 1888, Winthrop, Massachusetts - 27 April 1963, West Los Angeles) began his career as a drama critic. He wrote many books on the modern theater including The Theatre of Tomorrow (1921), Continental Stagecraft (1922) with Robert Edmond Jones, Masks and Demons (1923) with Herman Rosse, and Footlights Across America (1929). In 1922, he ran the Provincetown Playhouse as its producer, with Eugene O'Neill and Robert Edmond Jones as partners. His close relationship with O'Neill lasted their lifetimes.
In 1928 he moved to Hollywood, California to become a story editor for the newly-formed RKO Radio Pictures. By 1932, Macgowan had become a film producer for RKO, including Little Women (1933) starring Katharine Hepburn. He won an Academy Award for Best Color Short Film for La Cucaracha (1934) the first live-action short film made in the three-color Technicolor process.
Macgowan produced many films between 1932 and 1947, not only at RKO, but also for 20th Century Fox...
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