James Avery Hopwood (May 28, 1882 – July 1, 1928) was an American playwright of the Jazz Age.
He had four plays running simultaneously on Broadway in 1920. ==Early life== Hopwood was born to James and Jule Hopwood on May 28, 1882, in Cleveland, Ohio.
He graduated from Cleveland's West High School in 1900.
In 1901, he began attending the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
He returned to the University of Michigan in the fall of 1903, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1905. ==Career== Hopwood started out as a journalist for a Cleveland newspaper as its New York correspondent, but within a year had a play, Clothes (1906), produced on Broadway.
He returned to the University of Michigan in the fall of 1903, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1905. ==Career== Hopwood started out as a journalist for a Cleveland newspaper as its New York correspondent, but within a year had a play, Clothes (1906), produced on Broadway.
Hopwood collaborated with Rinehart to then work on the last act of the play in Sewickley and sometimes in New York. The early sound film The Bat Whispers played an influence on Bob Kane's Batman because the inspiration for Batman's costume came from the "mysterious Bat" character portrayed in the movie from 1930. ==Personal life== In 1906, Hopwood was introduced to writer and photographer Carl Van Vechten.
He had four plays running simultaneously on Broadway in 1920. ==Early life== Hopwood was born to James and Jule Hopwood on May 28, 1882, in Cleveland, Ohio.
In the 1920s Hopwood had a tumultuous and abusive romantic relationship with fellow Cleveland-born playwright John Floyd.
NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1948. Posing a Threat: Flappers, Chorus Girls, and Other Brazen Performers of the American 1920s, by Angela Latham.
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", where a bevy of showgirls teased the audience in their lingerie.
Hanover and London: Wesleyan University Press, 2000. The Splendid Drunken Twenties: Carl Van Vechten Selections from the Daybooks, 1922–1930.
Although Hopwood announced to the press in 1924 that he was engaged to vaudeville dancer and choreographer Rosa Rolanda, Van Vechten confirmed in later years that it was a publicity stunt.
James Avery Hopwood (May 28, 1882 – July 1, 1928) was an American playwright of the Jazz Age.
Rolanda would later marry caricaturist Miguel Covarrubias. On July 1, 1928, at Juan-les-Pins on the French Riviera, Hopwood was accidentally drowned.
While she was working through the legal issues with his estate, Jule Hopwood fell ill and died on March 1, 1929.
Hopwood collaborated with Rinehart to then work on the last act of the play in Sewickley and sometimes in New York. The early sound film The Bat Whispers played an influence on Bob Kane's Batman because the inspiration for Batman's costume came from the "mysterious Bat" character portrayed in the movie from 1930. ==Personal life== In 1906, Hopwood was introduced to writer and photographer Carl Van Vechten.
NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1948. Posing a Threat: Flappers, Chorus Girls, and Other Brazen Performers of the American 1920s, by Angela Latham.
NY: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1974. Matinee Tomorrow, by Ward Morehouse.
Jack Sharrar recovered the manuscript for this novel in 1982 during his research for Avery Hopwood, His Life and Plays.
Hanover and London: Wesleyan University Press, 2000. The Splendid Drunken Twenties: Carl Van Vechten Selections from the Daybooks, 1922–1930.
Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2003. ==External links== Mary Roberts Rinehart at University of Pittsburgh digital library – includes material on her collaboration with Hopwood 1882 births 1928 deaths Gay writers LGBT dramatists and playwrights LGBT people from Ohio LGBT writers from the United States University of Michigan alumni American male dramatists and playwrights 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights Writers from Cleveland 20th-century American male writers
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