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Eleanor Gates


Born
September 26, 1874

Died
March 07, 1951


Eleanor Gates was an American playwright who created seven plays that were staged on Broadway. Her best known work was the play The Poor Little Rich Girl, which was produced by her husband in 1913 and went on to be made as films for Mary Pickford in 1917 and for Shirley Temple in 1936.

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Average rating: 3.69 · 495 ratings · 44 reviews · 53 distinct works • Similar authors
The Biography Of A Prairie ...
3.90 avg rating — 320 ratings — published 1902 — 65 editions
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The Poor Little Rich Girl
3.25 avg rating — 142 ratings — published 1912 — 120 editions
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The Plow-Woman
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The Rich Little Poor Boy
3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1922 — 39 editions
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Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1907 — 43 editions
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Apron-Strings
3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1917 — 45 editions
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Swat the Fly! An One-Act Fa...
2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2015 — 16 editions
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Eleanor Gates’s Collected W...
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“It was a beautiful bed, carved and enamelled, and panelled—head and foot—with woven cane. But to Gwendolyn it was, by day, a white instrument of torture”
― Eleanor Gates, The Poor Little Rich Girl
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“been passed around, for every one wanted to see if”
― Eleanor Gates, The Biography Of A Prairie Girl
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― Eleanor Gates, The Biography Of A Prairie Girl
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