Adelaide Matthews
{{Short description|American playwright (1876–1958)}}
Adelaide Matthews (1876-1958){{Cite web|url=http://philsp.com/homeville/fmi/c00/c00380.htm#TOP|title=Biographical Notes: Page 380|website=philsp.com}}{{Cite web|url=http://philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n07/n07094.htm#A15|title=Index by Name: Page 7094|website=philsp.com}} was a playwright in the United States. Some of her works were adapted to film.
She was born in Kenduskeag, Maine. She wrote plays with Martha M. Stanley.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1921/08/07/archives/two-sudden-playwrights.html|title=TWO SUDDEN PLAYWRIGHTS|work=The New York Times |date=August 7, 1921|via=NYTimes.com}} She also wrote plays with Anne Nichols.{{Cite web|url=https://archives.nypl.org/the/21586|title=archives.nypl.org -- Anne Nichols papers|website=archives.nypl.org}}
Plays
- Nighty-Night (1919)
- Scrambled Wives (1920), along with Martha M. Stanley{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=biyBDAAAQBAJ&dq=%22adelaide+matthews%22&pg=PA262|title=New Women Dramatists in America, 1890-1920|first=S.|last=Engle|date=December 25, 2007|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-0-230-60936-5 |via=Google Books}}
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- Just Married (1921), along with Anne Nichols
- The Teaser (1921), along with Martha Stanley
- Puppy Love (1926), with Martha Stanleyhttps://findingaids.uflib.ufl.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/290250
- The Wasp's Nest (1927){{Cite web|url=https://playbill.com/person/adelaide-matthews-vault-0000024582|title=Adelaide Matthews (Writer)|website=Playbill}} and published in 1929{{Cite web|url=https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Matthews,+Adelaide,+1886-|title=Matthews, Adelaide, 1886- | The Online Books Page|website=onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu}}
- First Night Out
- Hearts Desire, along with Anne Nichols
- Nearly Married (1929), with Anne Nichols{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mGRflyN__ZYC&dq=%22adelaide+matthews%22&pg=PA377|title=A Guide to Critical Reviews: American drama, 1909-1982|first=James M.|last=Salem|date=March 11, 1984|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-1690-9 |via=Google Books}}
- The First Mrs. Chiverick; a comedy in 3 acts by Adelaide Matthews and Martha Stanley. New York, London, (1930)
Filmography
- Scrambled Wives (1921)
- The Teaser (1925)
- Just Married (1928)
References
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Category:American dramatists and playwrights
Category:American women writers
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