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David Belasco
David Belasco
By: Sydney Zachary
Who was David Belasco?
- Producer
- Impresario
- Director
- Playwright
Biography
Did you know...
- He was known for choosing unknown actors to help elevate them to stardom
Factoids 1
- Some say this turned toxic and gave Belasco a negative power dynamic
Did you know...
Factoids 2
- More than forty motion pictures have been made from the plays he wrote/adapted
- La Belle Russe, Men and Women, and Madame Butterfly.
Early Life
Death
Died May 14, 1931 in New York, NY
- Attended a monastery
- Ran away and joined the circus
- At 12, he was acting and writing plays
- Secretary
- worked for several theater companies from 1873-1881
Birth/Death
Birth
Born July 25, 1853 in San Francisco, CA
- Moved to NYC in 1880
- Married Cecilia Loverich in 1880
- Had two children: Reina and Augusta
- During his career (1884-1930) Belasco
- wrote, directed, and/or produced more than 100 Broadway plays
- Most powerful personality on the New York City theater scene.
Middle Life
Discovery
Pioneered many innovative new forms of stage lighting and special effects
Discovery
Legacy
Works Cited
Resources
Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Robert Edmond Jones". Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 Dec. 2021, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Edmond-Jones. Accessed 20 March 2022.
“Belasco Theatre.” Shubert Organization Top, 2015, https://shubert.nyc/theatres/belasco/.
Bergman, Herbert. “DAVID BELASCO’S DRAMATIC THEORY.” The University of Texas Studies in English, vol. 32, University of Texas Press, 1953, pp. 110–22, http://www.jstor.org/stable/20776065.
Curley, Eileen. "STRANGE DUETS: IMPRESARIOS AND ACTRESSES IN THE AMERICAN THEATRE. 1865-1914." Theatre Journal 60.1 (2008): 155-6. ProQuest. Web. 26 Mar. 2022.
David Belasco Papers, https://archives.nypl.org/the/21350.
Essin, Christin. "Designing American Modernity." Theatre History Studies 29 (2009):
32,51,256. ProQuest. Web. 2 Mar. 2022.
Hostetter, Anthony, and Elisabeth Hostetter. "Robert Edmond Jones: theatre and motion
pictures, bridging reality and dreams." Theatre Symposium, vol. 19, annual 2011, pp. 26+. Gale OneFile: Hospitality and Tourism, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A279891248/PPTH?u=naal_athens&sid=oclc&xid=65655c9d. Accessed 2 Mar. 2022.
Paul, William. "Breaking the Fourth Wall: 'Belascoism', Modernism, and a 3-D Kiss Me Kate." Film History 16.3 (2004): 229-42. ProQuest. Web. 26 Mar. 2022.