More than a legend in American theater and arts, Horton Foote was family to anyone who ... many of them based on his family’s history in Wharton in the early 20th century. One can only marvel ...

Horton Foote achieved his first great success in the theater by laying on the histrionics. That was some 70 years ago, when he was a schoolboy from Wharton, Texas, competing in a statewide drama ...

Today, we look at Horton ... Foote was born in Wharton (current population: around 8,600), about 60 miles southwest of Houston, in 1916. But he got out into the world early in life, to study ...

The book was “Harrison, Texas” by Horton Foote ... in 1999 when Austin theater backer Mari Marchbanks invited me to spend the afternoon at Foote’s family bungalow in Wharton.

At 88, Texas-born Horton Foote is not ready to rest ... Set in the 1950s in Harrison, Texas (stand-in for Foote's hometown of Wharton, where he has set many of his plays and films), the drama ...

AR: That is such a Horton story because he wasn’t out there to be congratulated, he was just curious if anyone knew. TM: So much of the film takes place in Wharton, in the home where Foote grew up.

NEW YORK-- Playwright and screenwriter Horton Foote ... for next September at the nonprofit theater, Marte said. Foote left the cotton fields of his native Wharton, Texas, as a teenager, dreaming ...

The great Horton Foote, the Wharton native responsible for such works as the To Kill a Mockingbird screenplay (for which he won an Oscar), The Trip to Bountiful (filmed in Dallas) and Tender ...

The Signature Theater’s compassionate ... Trip to Bountiful,” Cicely Tyson visited Wharton, Tex., and the family home of the playwright Horton Foote. “Him,” the playwright Daisy Foote ...

Playwright and screenwriter Horton Foote ... for next fall at the nonprofit theater, Marte said. Foote left the cotton fields of his native Wharton, Texas, as a teenager, dreaming of becoming ...