Bertolt Brecht

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Birthday: February 10, 1998

Bertolt Brecht was also one of the preeminent playwrights of the 20th-century. He was also a poet and occasional screenwriter who penned a few screenplays. One of his most famous musical plays, Three Penny Opera, was adapted into a film by Pabst in 1931. Brecht worked as a screenwriter in the U.S. during the early '40s and worked with Fritz Lang and John Wexley. He left Hollywood in 1947 so ...more