He also penned the screenplay for the Buster Keaton film Seven Chances, though he is best remembered today for adaptations of his work by Giacomo Puccini and David Henry Hwang.
This playwright popularized the actress Leslie Carter, and it was rumored that he dragged her around by her hair to increase the emotional intensity of her performances. A mentor to Cecil B. De Mille, he cowrote several plays with De Mille's father, including Lord Chumley. The Civil War drama The Heart of Maryland was his first great success, and he later played himself in the Edwin Porter version of his A Good Little Devil.  That film starred Mary Pickford, who was a member of his troupe and appeared in his The Warrens of Virginia. He also penned the screenplay for the Buster Keaton film Seven Chances, though he is best remembered today for adaptations of his work by Giacomo Puccini and David Henry Hwang. FTP, name this playwright who wrote The Girl of the Golden West and Madame Butterfly.
This playwright popularized the actress Leslie Carter, and it was rumored that he dragged her around by her hair to increase the emotional intensity of her performances.
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