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James Bridie was the pseudonym of a Scottish playwright, screenwriter and physician whose real name was Osborne Henry Mavor. He took his pen-name from his paternal grandfather's first name and his grandmother's maiden name. Wikipedia  

✵ 3. January 1888 – 29. January 1951
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James Bridie Quotes

“I sat through the first act and heard my lovely lines falling like cold porridge on a damp mattress.”

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One Way of Living, alluding to his play Marriage is no Joke 1939

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