Cultural References
Cornell is featured in a play by Buffalo born playwright A.R. Gurney entitled The Grand Manner. The play is about his encounter with Cornell as a young man when she was in the production of Antony and Cleopatra. The play ran during the summer of 2010 at Lincoln Center and starred Kate Burton as Cornell. In Buffalo, the play was produced by the Kavinoky Theatre in May 2011.Buffalo News Review
Cornell is mentioned in the third chorus in the song, "Gee How I Wish I Was Back in the Army," by Irving Berlin:
"Gee, I wish I was back in the Army/
The shows we got civilians couldn't see/
How we would yell for Dietrich and Cornell/
Jolson, Hope and Benny all for free."
Cornell is also referenced in the lyrics of "Let's Face It", by Cole Porter:
"Farming, that's the fashion,/
Farming, that's the passion/
Of our great celebrities of today./
Kit Cornell is shellin' peas,/
Lady Mendl's climbin' trees,/
Dear Mae West is at her best in the hay."
Cornell is referenced as a plot point in the comedy The Man Who Came to Dinner by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman. The character Bert Jefferson writes a play, and his girlfriend Maggie Cutler, convinced the play would be a hit on Broadway, gives the play to another character in the hopes that Katharine Cornell will produce it.script
Read more about this topic: Katharine Cornell, Legacy
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“Quite apart from any conscious program, the great cultural historians have always been historical morphologists: seekers after the forms of life, thought, custom, knowledge, art.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)