Olive Higgins Prouty Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Olive Higgins Prouty (10 January 1882 – 24 March 1974) was an American novelist and poet, best known for her pioneering consideration of psychotherapy in Now, Voyager (1941) (made into a movie Now, Voyager (1942) directed by Irving Rapper and starring Bette Davis and a radio drama starring Ida Lupino produced by Cecil B. de Mille on the Lux Radio Theater) and her novel (1922) Stella Dallas adapted into a stage play in 1924 and movies in 1925, 1937. The novel was used as the basis for the successful film — Stella Dallas (1937), a melodrama that starred Barbara Stanwyck and was nominated for two Academy Awards — and a radio serial which was broadcast daily for 18 years, despite Prouty's legal efforts (since she had not authorized the sale of the broadcast rights, and was displeased with her characters' portrayals). Olive Higgins, who was born and raised in Worcester, Massachusetts, was a 1904 graduate of Smith College and after she married Louis Prouty in 1907, they moved to Brookline, Massachusetts in 1908.In 1894 Prouty was reported to have suffered from a nervous breakdown that lasted nearly two years according to the Clark University Archives and Special Collections.After the death of her daughter Olivia in 1923 Prouty suffered from another nervous breakdown in 1925. Her poetry collection was published posthumously by Friends of the Goddard Library, Clark University, Worcester, MA (1997) as Between the Barnacles and Bayberries: and Other Poems after it was released for publication in 1997 by her children Richard and Jane.Prouty is also known for her philanthropic works, and for her resulting association with the famous writer Sylvia Plath, whom she encountered as a result of endowing a Smith College scholarship for "promising young writers". She supported Plath financially in the wake of Plath's unsuccessful 1953 suicide attempt. Some have held the view that Plath employed her memories of Prouty as the basis of the character of "Philomena Guinea" in her 1963 novel, The Bell Jar. In 1961, Prouty wrote her memoirs but, as her public profile had diminished, could not find a publisher; she had them printed at her own expense.There are references to an Olive Higgins Prouty Foundation, Inc.
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.
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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'.
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Graduated from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Provided the scholarship that allowed poet Sylvia Plath to attend Smith.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Stella
1990
novel "Stella Dallas"
Guiding Light
1981
TV Series certain characters created by - 1 episode