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  Charles MacArthur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles MacArthur (November 5, 1895 - April 21, 1956) was an American playwright and screenwriter, born in Scranton, Pennsylvania to a Baptist minister father.
It was based in part on MacArthur's experiences at the City News Bureau of Chicago.
His brother, John D. MacArthur, was an insurance-company owner and executive, and founded the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the benefactor in the "genius awards".
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 Donald Alexander MacArthur
MacArthur, Donald Alexander, Alexandria, Ont., was born on the 28th of October,.
Donald MacArthur, his great-grandfather, served under Cameron, of Lochiel, and took part at the battle of Culloden, when Prince Charles Stuart’s forces were defeated by the Duke of Cumberland; and his grandfather, Charles MacArthur, served at a later date in suppressing the Irish rebellion.
Charles MacArthur died when his son, Alexander, was very young, arid the latter was brought up by his brother John, who was an extensive lumber merchant at Kingston.
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 James MacArthur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James Gordon MacArthur was born December 8, 1937 in Los Angeles, California.
So great was the popularity of the series, and of MacArthur's character, that it is easy to overlook the fact that he had a flourishing career long before the advent of Hawaii Five-0, and remained active in movies and TV and on the stage long after its demise.
He was adopted as an infant by playwright Charles MacArthur and his wife, actress Helen Hayes, he grew up in Nyack, New York, along with the MacArthurs' biological daughter, Mary, also an actress.
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 History of the MacArthur Clan
The clan was at its peak in the 14th century when a MacArthur married the heiress of the progenitor of the Campbell lords of Loch Awe.
Charles MacArthur, piper to Sir Alexander MacDonald, was a pupil of Patrick Og MacCrimmon.
In the 17th century, one of the MacArthurs of Milton in Dunoon rose to be a baillie in Kintyre and a chamberlain to the Marquess of Montrose in Cowal.
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 Charles MacArthur   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
His brother, John D. MacArthur, was an insurance -company owner and executive, and founded the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the benefactor in the \"genius awards\".
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Charles L. McNary, honored United States Senator of Oregon, candidate for Vice President in 1940 on the Republican ticket with Wendel Wilkie.
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 Charles MacArthur
Charles MacArthur (November 5, 1895 - April 21, 1956) was an American playwright and screenwriter who was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and died in New York, New York.
Their adopted son James MacArthur is also an actor, best known for playing "Danny Williams" on the American television series Hawaii Five-O from 1968 to 1979.
His brother, John D. Macarthur[?], is a noted philanthropist and insurance executive, donor of the so-called "genius grants".
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 Charles A   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
MacArthur, C. Word processing with speech synthesis and word prediction: Effects on the dialogue journal writing of students with learning disabilities.
MacArthur, C. A., Pilato, V., Kercher, M., Peterson, D., Malouf, D., and Jamison, P. A mentoring model for technology education for teachers.
MacArthur, C. A., Schwartz, S. S., and Graham, S. A model for writing instruction: Integrating word processing and strategy instruction into a process approach to writing.
www.udel.edu /educ/macarthur/vita.html   (1696 words)

  
 Honolulu Star-Bulletin Features
MacArthur, the adopted son of actress Helen Hayes and writer Charles MacArthur, was McGarrett's chief assistant.
MacArthur's days are divided between being the assistant coach of his son's baseball team, sponsor of the soccer team, and with various business dealings, including part owner of San Diego's Daily Californian newspaper, and publisher of the 500,000 monthly "Senior World" newspaper-magazine he hopes to get on television and host.
MacArthur, who began his acting career in 1945, remains best known for "Five-0." His films included "The Light in the Forest," "Kidnapped," "The Swiss Family Robinson," "The Interns," and "Hang 'Em High" in 1968 for producer Freeman.
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 Charles Macarthur   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Guare’s adaptation is based on Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur’s 1928 Broadway smash hit, The Front Page, and the Howard Hawks movie, His Girl Friday...
Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur’s 1928 Broadway hit is a comedy about journalistic ethics.
In 2003, S�was named a MacArthur Fellow, an honor given to individuals who have shown extraordinary...
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 Rensselaer County, NY GenWeb site - Biographies - Charles MacArthur
CHARLES L. senior editor and proprietor of the Troy Northern Budget, Troy, N. Y., was born at Claremont, N. Jan. 24, 1824, of Scotch [sic - Scottish] parentage on the father's side and New England on the mother's.
MacArthur sold the News at a handsome figure in 1866, having become one of the editors and proprietors of the Troy Daily Whig.
MacArthur has been an active and influential politician; was a Free-Soiler in 1848; and remained a Democrat up to the advent of Lincoln.
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 Scotsman.com News - Top Stories - The reluctant chief of Clan MacArthur
Mr MacArthur, however, is something of a reluctant standard bearer, anxious no-one should think he is putting himself forward for the title.
It was the senior members of the clan who set the search in motion in 1986, hiring highly-respected genealogist Hugh Peskett to delve back through 12 generations of MacArthurs to find a common ancestor for the last chief, Charles MacArthur of Tirivadich, and the man their hopes now rest on.
That Charles MacArthur died in 1525 and the chiefly line continued through his eldest son, eventually dying out with the final Charles sometime between 1786 and 1788.
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 LD OnLine: TECHTALK Dr. Charles MacArthur
MacArthur is Professor of Special Education in the School of Education at the University of Delaware where he teaches courses on literacy instruction and educational technology for students with mild and moderate disabilities.
Major funded research projects in the past have focused on development of a writing curriculum for students with learning disabilities, classroom implementation of writing strategy instruction, development of multimedia tools to support reading and writing in content areas, and leadership and teacher development in educational technology.
Tonight we are fortunate to have Dr. Charles MacArthur (CM) as our expert.
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 Modern Screen 7/60   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Jimmy learned that because he himself is the adopted son of one of the world's best known stage actresses, Helen Hayes, and the late Charles MacArthur.
It was while Charles MacArthur was serving in the Army during World War II, that he decided ten-year-old Jimmy should learn he was adopted.
Helen Hayes MacArthur, in the absence of his Commanding Officer, is hereby empowered to promote the said James Gordon MacArthur to the grade of Master Sergeant.
www.jamesmacarthurfanclub.com /modernscreen760/modernscreen760.htm   (273 words)

  
 Anecdote - Charles MacArthur - Charles & Charles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
One day Charles Lederer visited the theater with a rather inebriated Charles MacArthur, who quickly succeeded in offending a rather proper lady (regrettably seated beside Lederer) with his obscene remarks.
When the lady called for the manager and a regiment of ushers descended toward them, MacArthur turned to Lederer and encouraged him: "Quick, put your hand up her skirt!" he cried.
MacArthur, Charles (1895-1956) American playwright, husband of Helen Hayes [noted for such works (with Ben Hecht) as The Front Page (1928), Twentieth Century (1933), and Wuthering Heights]
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 Septs of Clan Campbell
Patrick MacArthur, son to Duncan MacArthur of Terivadich, was appointed Captain of the old Campbell Castle of Innischonnell on Loch Awe in April 1559.
In 1567, Duncan MacArthur of Terivadich and his son Ian together with several of their men were drowned in a skirmish with these Campbells who had previously held undisputed sway in the area.
So too the ‘John MacArthur’ executed by King James I in 1428 is in fact the descendent of Sir Arthur Campbell’s younger son, also Arthur, who had a charter of her lands from Christina of Garmoran whom he may have been about to marry.
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 MacArthur, Charles --  Encyclopædia Britannica
U.S. lawyer who, as a lieutenant colonel under Gen. Douglas MacArthur during World War II, oversaw the drafting of Japan's postwar constitution (adopted May 3, 1947), in which the quasi-divine emperor was replaced with a constitutional monarchy and the nation made a formal renunciation of war (b.
His play The Front Page (1928), written with Charles MacArthur, influenced the public's idea of the newspaper world and the newspaperman's idea of himself.
His play The Front Page, written with Charles MacArthur and first produced in 1928, strongly influenced the public's idea of the newspaper world and the newspaperman's idea of himself.
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 Charles MacArthur   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
He is best known for his with Ben Hecht The Front Page which has been filmed frequently.
Their adopted son James MacArthur is like his mother an actor known for playing "Danny Williams" on the television series Hawaii Five-O.
Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's "The Front Page": A Study Guide from Gale's "Drama for Students"
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 A Salute to Charles Gordon MacArthur
Arriving in November 1895 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Charlie was the second youngest of seven children born to stern evangelist William Telfer MacArthur and Georgiana Welsted MacArthur.
Charles MacArthur) would tell friends of times when she or Rose Hecht would visit to bring in food or other supplies for their men, and the building would be positively filled with shouts of laughter and merriment.
Charles MacArthur left behind a lasting imprint upon both those who knew him personally and those who knew him only through his published works.
www.jamesmacarthur.com /CharlesMacArthur/CharlesMacArthur.shtml   (1535 words)

  
 TV Guide Article, March 15, 1969
All his professional life he has been known as the son of Helen Hayes and Charles MacArthur, the late playwright; and there have been rumblings that this fact helped account for his success as an actor -- featured roles in movies since he was a student at Harvard more than 10 years ago.
Born in Los Angeles and adopted by the MacArthurs as an infant, he was raised in Nyack,, N.Y., in a big Victorian frame house with a back yard sloping down to the river.
James MacArthur gets a chance to play somebody not on a motorcycle." Perhaps, because he was brought up so close to it, he does not take his chosen profession seriously enough.
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 nichol2
His wife Catherine MacArthur died on Skye(?), and Old Donald emigrated to Orwell PEI in 1803 on the Polly along with his grown up family.
If my theory is correct, this son Charles would have been named for his maternal grandfather, the Piper Charles MacArthur of Skye.
In 1822, Charles Nicholson was appointed a Constable for Orwell Bay, according to the Prince Edward Island Royal Gazette of 1822.
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 James MacArthur Official Fan Website: Becoming a Father   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
On that day, in St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church in New York, Jim stood by his wife, Joyce, his mother, famed actress Helen Hayes, and silent screen star Lillian Gish, who became godmother when the Rev. Terence Finlay christened three-week-old Charles MacArthur.
It was the tribute he had always wanted to pay - but never dreamed he could - to the two people he loved so dearly, his mother and father.
That Helen Hayes and her husband, the distinguished playwright Charles MacArthur, weren't his real parents, Jim had known for many years.
www.jamesmacarthurfanclub.com /ScreenAlbum1160/index.shtml   (316 words)

  
 Movie Database - [TV Guide Online]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Loosely based on the career of New York City criminal lawyer William J. Fallon, the great "mouthpiece" of the 1920s, this strange drama was the product of Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, with Claude Rains as the suave, ever-confident legal wizard.
Thinking her dead, he prepares an elaborate alibi which involves the killing of another man. Margo survives to haunt him in court, and the real killing is finally laid at his door in a surprise ending.
Hecht and MacArthur directed this minor masterpiece and used imaginative techniques in almost every frame.
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 James MacArthur Fan Club - Official Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
For eleven years, James MacArthur played the role of Dan (Danno) Williams, reliable second-in-command to Steve McGarrett (Jack Lord), head of the fictional Hawaiian State Police Squad, Hawaii Five-0.
So great was the popularity of the series, and of MacArthur’s character, that it is easy to overlook the fact that he had a flourishing career long before the advent of Hawaii Five-0, and remained active in movies and TV and on the stage long after its demise …
James Gordon MacArthur was born December 8, 1937 in Los Angeles, Adopted as an infant by playwright Charles MacArthur and his wife, actress Helen Hayes, he grew up in Nyack, New York, along with the MacArthurs’ biological daughter, Mary, also a talented actress.
www.jamesmacarthurfanclub.com /biography.shtml   (1904 words)

  
 Moviefone: Movie Celebrities - Charles MacArthur: MAIN
American screenwriter, playwright, and director Charles MacArthur broke into show business as a collaborator of playwright Ben Hecht; together the...
Charles MacArthur (November 5, 1895 - April 21, 1956) was an American playwright and...
Their adopted son James MacArthur is, like his mother, an actor,...
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 Turner Classic Movies This Month Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Director Howard Hawks was trying to prove that Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's play, The Front Page, still had some of the best modern dialogue ever written, but he didn't have two men to read a scene between editor Walter Burns and ace reporter Hildy Johnson.
He gave Hildy's lines to his secretary, then announced, "It's even better this way." He got Hecht's blessing on the altered version, and the two started working on the script in 1939.
But their work was going nowhere until Hecht's protégé, Charles Lederer, suggested the story would be more focused if Walter and Hildy had been married and divorced previously.
www.turnerclassicmovies.com /ThisMonth/Article/0,,89283,00.html   (947 words)

  
 Charles Lafayette MacArthur
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MacARTHUR, Charles Lafayette, journalist, born in Claremont, New Hampshire, 7 January, 1824.
In 1859 he established the Troy " Daily Arena," which he sold in the spring of 1861 in order to go to the war, in which he served first as lieutenant and quartermaster of the 2d New York volunteers, and afterward as captain and assistant quartermaster in the regular army.
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 Charles MacArthur   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Former Chicago journalist who teamed up with Ben Hecht to write several Broadway hits, including The Front Page (1928) and Twentieth Century (1932), before turning his attentions to Hollywood.
MacArthur's best work as both writer (BARBARY COAST, 1935, WUTHERING HEIGHTS, 1939) and director (CRIME WITHOUT PASSION, 1934, THE SCOUNDREL, 1935) was done in collaboration with Hecht.
MacArthur married actress Helen Hayes in 1928 and their adopted son is actor James MacArthur.
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