Crouse, Russel (1893-1966), wrote and produced many popular plays with Howard Lindsay. They wrote Life with Father (1939), which set a Broadway record for the number of consecutive performances. Crouse and Lindsay won a Pulitzer Prize for State of the Union (1945). They also produced Arsenic and Old Lace (1941) and Detective Story (1949). Russel Crouse was born in Findlay, Ohio.
See also Lindsay, Howard.
