The War Between Men and Women
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The Prisoner of Second Avenue premiered on Broadway at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre on November 11, 1971 and closed on September 29, 1973 after 798 performances and four previews.
May 5, 1975 · The Prisoner of Second Avenue: Directed by Melvin Frank. With Jack Lemmon, Anne Bancroft, Gene Saks, Elizabeth Wilson. A suddenly-unemployed company executive suffers a nervous breakdown, and his supporting wife tries everything to console him and pick up the slack.
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- Comedy
- Melvin Frank
- 1975-05-05
A suddenly-unemployed company executive suffers a nervous breakdown, and his supporting wife tries everything to console him and pick up the slack. The story of Mel and Edna ( Jack Lemmon and Anne Bancroft ), a middle-class, middle-aged, middle-happy couple living in a Manhattan high rise apartment building. Mel loses his job, the apartment is ...
May 27, 2008 · The Prisoner of Second Avenue was based on the 1971 Tony award-winning Neil Simon play of the same name that originally starred Peter Falk and Lee Grant. Simon had been inspired to write the play based on an episode from the life of his wife's uncle.
- Melvin Frank
- Jack Lemmon
The Prisoner of Second Avenue takes place in a Manhattan apartment from midsummer to December, most likely in 1971. Mel and Edna Edison have been living on the fourteenth floor in this small apartment for six years.
Neurotic middle-aged New Yorker Mel Edison (Jack Lemmon) is fired from his advertising job, forcing his loving wife, Edna (Anne Bancroft), to become the couple's sole breadwinner. Feeling ...
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- Comedy, Drama
- PG
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Melvin Frank. Director. Neil Simon. Screenplay. Mel Edison has just lost his job after many years and now has to cope with being unemployed at middle age during an intense NYC heat wave.
