Sentence examples for sold a play from inspiring English sources

At 18 he sold a play he had written, "Cross Ruff," which ran briefly on Broadway in 1935.

Her husband, the actor Will Knightley, made a deal with her: if she sold a play they could afford to have another baby.

He'd love to have stuff put on; years ago he sold a play to the West End but it didn't get produced.

In any event, he followed her into make-believe, and by the age of nineteen he had sold a play about Oscar Wilde to a movie producer, who died before he could produce it.

We're not trying to sell a play".

I'd be unlikely to sell a play to the movies because they'd just rip it to pieces.

Critics have raved about the play's four actors, yet none are the kind of big-name stars whose celebrity can help sell a play to the tourists who buy many Broadway tickets.

Exactly the same thing happens to most film love scenes, with the added complication that the producers know that they can be a main factor in selling the film, just as stage nudity can now be a main factor in selling a play.

A few weeks later, Hecht and MacArthur went into New York to try to sell a play they'd just written, and encountered Mankiewicz, who, having sent his wife and children out of town to escape the heat, was "occupying Prince Bibesco's grand suite in the Plaza Hotel while his Highness capered in Long Island".

To that end a solid start is essential - it's easier to sell a play-off push to the loaning clubs than it is a battle at the very basement of the Football League.

We're sold a level playing field.