Counsellor-at-Law

play by Rice

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Counsellor-at-Law is a 1931 play by American playwright Elmer Rice. The play offers a critical examination of the legal profession. Rice, who graduated from law school, turned to writing plays and became known for his innovative and polemical works.1

Counsellor-at-Law is one of several plays by Rice that addressed social and political issues of the 1930s, including the Great Depression and racism. A "counselor-at-law" is a legal counselor.12

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William Wyler
Films of the 1930s
…Elmer Rice from his own play and starred John Barrymore. Wyler followed the melodrama Glamour (1934) with the comedy The Good Fairy (1935), a clever adaptation of a Ferenc Molnár play by Preston Sturges that starred Margaret Sullavan, whom Wyler had recently married. Successful though it was, The Good
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…Elmer Rice from his own play and starred John Barrymore. Wyler followed the melodrama Glamour (1934) with the comedy The Good Fairy (1935), a clever adaptation of a Ferenc Molnár play by Preston Sturges that starred Margaret Sullavan, whom Wyler had recently married. Successful though it was, The Good
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