Editing Avery Hopwood (section)

==Career==
Hopwood started out as a journalist for the ''Cleveland Leader'' as its New York correspondent, but within a year had his first play, ''Clothes'' (1906), produced on Broadway, with the aid of playwright Channing Pollock. Hopwood eventually became known as "The Playboy Playwright"<ref name=imdbbio>Jim Beaver [http://imdb.com/name/nm0394479/bio Biography for Avery Hopwood] at [[Internet Movie Database]]</ref> and specialized in comedies and farces, some of them with material considered risqué  at the time.  One play, ''[[The Demi-Virgin]]'' in 1921, prompted a court case because of its suggestive subject matter, including a risque game of cards, "Stripping Cupid".  The case was dismissed.

His many plays included ''Nobody's Widow'' (1910), starring [[Blanche Bates]]; ''[[Fair and Warmer]]'' (1915), starring [[Madge Kennedy]] (filmed in 1919); ''[[The Gold Diggers (1919 play)|The Gold Diggers]]'' (1919), starring [[Ina Claire]] in New York and [[Tallulah Bankhead]] in London; (filmed in 1923 as ''[[The Gold Diggers (1923 film)|The Gold Diggers]]'', in 1928 as ''[[Gold Diggers of Broadway]]'' and also as ''[[Gold Diggers of 1933]]''); ''[[Ladies' Night (play)|Ladies' Night]]'', 1920, starring [[Charlie Ruggles]] (filmed in 1928); the famous mystery play ''[[The Bat (play)|The Bat]]'' (with [[Mary Roberts Rinehart]]), 1920 (filmed in 1926 as ''[[The Bat (1926 film)|The Bat]]'', in 1930 as ''[[The Bat Whispers]],'' and in 1959 as ''[[The Bat (1959 film)|The Bat]]''); ''[[Getting Gertie's Garter (play)|Getting Gertie's Garter]]'' (with [[Wilson Collison]]), 1921, starring [[Hazel Dawn]] (filmed in 1927 and 1945); ''[[The Demi-Virgin]]'', 1921, also starring Dawn; ''The Alarm Clock'', 1923, translated from the French; ''The Best People'' (with David Gray), 1924 (filmed in [[The Best People|1925]] and as ''[[Fast and Loose (1930 film)|Fast and Loose]]'' in 1930 with [[Clara Bow]]); the song-farce ''Naughty Cinderella'', 1925, starring [[Irène Bordoni]] and ''The Garden of Eden'' in 1927, with [[Tallulah Bankhead]] in London and [[Miriam Hopkins]] in New York; (filmed in 1928 as ''[[The Garden of Eden (1928 film)|The Garden of Eden]]'').