The Children's Hour (play)

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This article is about the stage play by Lillian Hellman. For other articles with the same name, see The Children's Hour (disambiguation).

The Children's Hour is a 1934 stage play written by Lillian Hellman. It is a drama set in an all-girls boarding school run by two women, Karen Wright and Martha Dobie. An angry student, Mary Tilford, runs away from the school and to avoid being sent back she tells her grandmother that the two headmistresses are having a lesbian affair, a claim that is not true. The accusation proceeds to destroy the women's careers, relationships and lives.

Adaptations

The play was made into a 1936 film, but the Production Code, administered by the Hays Commission, forced the nature of the affair to be changed into a heterosexual love triangle, and would not allow the film to keep the same name as the controversial play it was based on; the title was changed to These Three.

The play was adapted into a 1961 film.

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