Biographie
Olive Higgins Prouty
- Date de naissance
- Date de décès24 mars 1974 · Brookline, Massachusetts, États-Unis (causes naturelles)
- Olive Higgins Prouty est célèbre pour Une femme cherche son destin (1942), Stella Dallas (1937) et Le sacrifice de Stella Dallas (1925).
- ConjointLewis I. Prouty(7 janvier 1907 - 1951) (son décès, 4 enfants)
- Graduated from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Provided the scholarship that allowed poet Sylvia Plath to attend Smith.
- Paid for Plath's hospitalization following her attempted suicide in 1953, only to be caricatured as the fatuous Philomena Guinea in Plath's novel 'The Bell Jar'.
- Best known for her novel 'Now, Voyager', which was filmed with Bette Davis in 1942. The film drew upon her own experience of having suffered nervous breakdowns (1894 and 1925) and having undergone subsequent psychotherapy.
- Une femme cherche son destin (1947) - $40 .000 (film rights)
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