American playwright Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983), circa 1955. (Photo by FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images)
American actress Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962) with her husband, playwright Arthur Miller at London Airport, 14th July 1956. Monroe is in London to begin filming 'The Prince and the Showgirl' with Laurence Olivier. (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
NEW YORK - April 1959: Writer and playwright Lorraine Hansberry poses for a portrait in her apartment at 337 Bleecker Street (where she had written the first-ever Broadway play by an African-American woman, "A Raisin In The Sun") in April, 1959 in New York City, New York. (Photo by David Attie/Getty Images)
Stage and Screen,Literature, Personalities, pic: circa 1950's, Samuel Beckett, (1906-1989) Irish born playwright and novelist, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969 (Photo by Rolls Press/Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)
Portrait of music composers Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein at a piano, during the development of their new musical 'Pipe Dream', 1955. (Photo by Pictorial Parade/Archive Photos/Getty Images)
