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- Birth nameMooris Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck
- Maeterlinck was a revolutionary symbolist playwright from Belgium. His influence on modern drama is vast and he was one of the best known figures in Europe in the early twentieth century, both for his plays and his philosophical writings. Best known today for his fantasy play "The Blue Bird", which has been adapted into a number of films, but most of his work was darker and even horrifying. Death was a frequent character in his plays, and his use of rythmic repepetive dialogue gave his plays a mesmeric quality. His best plays are probably "The Sightless" and "Pelleas and Melisande".
- IMDb mini biography by: David Atfield <bits@alphalink.com.au>
- SpousesRenée Dahon(1919 - May 6, 1949) (his death)Georgette Leblanc(? - 1919) (divorced)
- Was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1911.
- Discussed by name in the film Without Reservations by the character played by Claudette Colbert.
- Samuel Goldwyn once commissioned him to write a screenplay on anything he pleased. He chose to adapt his bestselling entomological work, "The Life of a Bee." After reading a few pages of Maeterlinck's screenplay, a thoroughly dismissed Goldwyn burst out of his office yelling "My God, the hero is a bee!"
- In September 1874, he was sent to the Jesuit College of Sainte-Barbe, where works of the French Romantics were scorned and only plays on religious subjects were permitted. His experiences at this school influenced his distaste for the Catholic Church and organized religion.
- Maurice Maeterlinck was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French.
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