Rachel Crothers (December 12, 1870 [1] – July 5, 1958) was an American playwright and theater director known for her well-crafted plays that often dealt with feminist themes. Among theater historians, she is generally recognized as "the most successful and prolific woman dramatist writing in the first part of the twentieth century."[2] One of her most famous plays was Susan and God (1937), which was made into a film by MGM in 1940 starring Joan Crawford and Fredric March.
- ^ U. S. Passport application, number 110934, filed 1922-01-13, accessed 2024-06-15; U. S. Census, 1880, Bloomington, McLean, Illinois, enumeration district 160, page 5, line 24, accessed 2024-06-15.
- ^ Keith Newlin (ed.), American Plays of the New Woman (Chicago: Ivan Dee, 2000), p. 8.