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      • He was that rare thing—a success in entertainment for six decades, beginning in the late 1950s with the classic comedy albums he made with the brilliant Elaine May (which had first been developed into a Broadway stage show, An Evening with Nichols and May, directed by Arthur Penn), then becoming one of the leading theater and motion-picture directors of the second half of the last century.
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  2. Feb 9, 2021 · Mike Nichols was everywhere in the second half of the 20th century, from the Chicago comedy scene that he helped shape in the early ’60s, to hit Broadway shows, to movies that shaped the...

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Mike_NicholsMike Nichols - Wikipedia

    Nichols began his career in the 1950s with the comedy improvisational troupe The Compass Players, predecessor of The Second City, in Chicago. He then teamed up with his improv partner, Elaine May, to form the comedy duo Nichols and May.

  4. Sep 11, 2015 · He was that rare thing—a success in entertainment for six decades, beginning in the late 1950s with the classic comedy albums he made with the brilliant Elaine May (which had first been developed...

  5. Apr 2, 2021 · Mike Nichols tried not to be anyhow. The director built his long, storied career atop a series of brilliant collaborations with people who made him better. by Emily St. James

  6. Mar 26, 2021 · Like many who go overnight from poverty to wealth, as he did with the success of Nichols and May, he became a compulsive big spender on everything from Arabian horses to luxury apartments.

  7. Feb 2, 2021 · He scrabbled together English. He studied how to be American. “I was a zero,” Nichols says in the book. “In every way that mattered, I was powerless.”. His goal was to blend in, but his ...

  8. Feb 1, 2021 · Mike Nichols and Elaine May were familiar faces in Chicago beginning in the 1950s with the Hyde Park-based improv comedy troupe known as The Compass Players, the precursor to Second City.