Who was George Bernard Shaw?
Q: Who was George Bernard Shaw?
A: George Bernard Shaw was an Irish writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925.
Q: What are his best known works?
A: His best known works are his plays, some of which were made into movies.
Q: What kind of plays did Shaw write?
A: Shaw wrote many plays about political problems, some of which gave him enemies. For example, he wrote a play about prostitution and another about women's rights.
Q: Which of Shaw's plays was made into a movie in 1957?
A: Shaw's play Saint Joan was made into a movie in 1957.
Q: Which of Shaw's plays won him an Academy Award for the best adapted screenplay, 1938?
A: The movie adaptation of Shaw's play Pygmalion won him an Academy Award for the best adapted screenplay in 1938.
Q: What was the musical play called that was based on Pygmalion?
A: The musical play based on Pygmalion was called My Fair Lady.
Q: What was the pseudonym that Shaw used for his musical criticism?
A: Shaw used the pseudonym Corno di Bassetto (meaning Basset horn) for his musical criticism.
