Guthrie McClintic

McClintic, Guthrie (1893–1961), director and producer. He was born in Seattle and studied at the University of Washington and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts before making his acting debut in 1913. He first played for New York audiences a year later, appearing in several shows until 1918, when he joined Jessie Bonstelle's stock company. His directing career began after he left to become Winthrop Ames's assistant. McClintic embarked on his own when he produced and directed The Dover Road (1921). Subsequently he directed, and frequently produced, such popular plays as The Shanghai Gesture (1926), Saturday's Children (1927), Brief Moment (1931), Winterset (1935), Ethan Frome (1936), John Gielgud's Hamlet (1936), High Tor (1937), The Star Wagon (1937), Mamba's Daughters (1939), and Key Largo (1939). However, he is most often associated in playgoers' minds with the work he did in conjunction with his wife, Katharine Cornell. He directed her in The Green Hat (1925) and Dishonored Lady (1930), then beginning with The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1931), both directed her in and co‐produced with her all her later plays. Although he was a sensitive, knowing director, he was a prissy, volatile man, who was deftly parodied as Carleton Fitzgerald in Moss Hart's comedy Light Up the Sky. Autobiography: Me and Kit, 1955.