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unusual facts about Forman Brown


Forman Brown

Forman's Yale Puppeteers, which he established upon graduating from University of Michigan (class of 1922), opened a puppet theatre in Los Angeles in 1941 (the Turnabout Theater) that attracted celebrity attention and support from some of Hollywood's biggest names, e.g., Greta Garbo, Marie Dressler, and Douglas Fairbanks, as well as other notable figures including Albert Einstein.


Alexander Kirkland

His friend and theater colleague Forman Brown used him as the model for one of his characters in the early gay romance novel Better Angel (1933).


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