WRITER

David Belasco

1853 - 1931

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David Belasco (July 25, 1853 – May 14, 1931) was an American theatrical producer, impresario, director, and playwright. He was the first writer to adapt the short story Madame Butterfly for the stage. He launched the theatrical career of many actors, including James O'Neill, Mary Pickford, Lenore Ulric, and Barbara Stanwyck. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Belasco has received more than 278,368 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. David Belasco is the 5,094th most popular writer (down from 5,085th in 2019), the 7,221st most popular biography from United States (up from 7,710th in 2019) and the 569th most popular American Writer.

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  • 280k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.25

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.01

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The heart of Maryland & other plays
1941
Plays produced under the stage direction of David Belasco
Bibliography, Drama, Theater
1925
The Girl of the Golden West
Fiction, Women pioneers, Accessible book
1911
The theatre through its stage door
Acting, Theater
1919
Six plays
1928
The Return of Peter Grimm
1912

Among WRITERS

Among writers, David Belasco ranks 5,094 out of 7,302. Before him are Elaine May, Savo Kostadinovski, Shankha Ghosh, Frank Heller, Charlotte Casiraghi, and María Teresa León. After him are Andreas Kalvos, Einar Már Guðmundsson, Abdul Muis, John O'Hara, François Weyergans, and Maria Aurèlia Capmany.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1853, David Belasco ranks 92. Before him are Rudolf Kittel, Mato Kósyk, Konstantin Stoilov, René Bazin, Emilio Aceval, and Gertrud Adelborg. After him are André Messager, Lucy Parsons, Maria Yermolova, Charles Howard Hinton, Gaston Bonnier, and Henning von Holtzendorff. Among people deceased in 1931, David Belasco ranks 127. Before him are Emiliano Figueroa, John Isaac Briquet, William Frederick Denning, Konrad Stäheli, Art Acord, and Emilio Aceval. After him are Cesare Burali-Forti, Alfred Maudslay, Alfred Swahn, Edward Goodrich Acheson, Herbert Baddeley, and Rolf Johnsson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, David Belasco ranks 7,221 out of 20,380. Before him are Ginnifer Goodwin (1978), Kevin Tighe (1944), Robert Armstrong (1890), Duane Hanson (1925), Nat Adderley (1931), and Nathaniel Lord Britton (1859). After him are Lewis Binford (1932), Polly Holliday (1937), Janis Ian (1951), Ted Raimi (1965), Caleb Deschanel (1944), and Brenda Bakke (1963).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, David Belasco ranks 569. Before him are Walter J. Ong (1912), Peter S. Beagle (1939), Frank O'Hara (1926), Michael Cristofer (1945), Stephen Hunter (1946), and Elaine May (1932). After him are John O'Hara (1905), Alan Dean Foster (1946), Jack Finney (1911), Frank Norris (1870), Joel Chandler Harris (1848), and Warren Farrell (1943).

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