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George Axelrod, writer: born New York 9 June 1922; married first Gloria Washburn (two sons; marriage dissolved), second Joan Stanton (died 2001; one daughter); died Los Angeles 21 June 2003.
The Seven Year Itch (play) The Seven Year Itch. (play) The apartment of the Richard Shermans, in the Gramercy Park section of New York City. Present time. The Seven Year Itch is a 1952 three-act play written by George Axelrod. The original Broadway production starred Tom Ewell and Vanessa Brown . The titular phrase, which refers to declining ...
George Axelrod. Arriving in Hollywood, Dick Sherman, a New York publisher, will risk everything to get his hands on a Nobel Prize-winning author's unpublished manuscript, until he falls in love with a sexy starlet who has a dark side. Reprint. 202 pages, Paperback. First published January 1, 1952.
George Axelrod: Irony! Interview by Pat McGilligan. Good comedy, George Axelrod once said, is bitter; great comedy, angry. He should know. In the Hollywood of the fifties and sixties, it was mostly comedies that put him at the top of the screenwriting profession: Phffft!, The Seven Year Itch, Bus Stop, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Manchurian Candidate —as ferocious in its political satire as ...
Jun 21, 2003 · Find a Grave Memorial ID: 7608286. Source citation. Author. He received fame in the 20th century as an award-winning screenwriter, producer, playwright and film director. Born to a father of Russian-Jewish ancestry, his mother was an Irish silent-film actress. He is best known for his film adaptations of the plays or novels The Seven Year Itch ...
Axelrod was born on 9 June 1922 in New York City and after three wartime years in the US Army Signal Corps, he returned to New York and wrote scripts for radio, then television. He calculated that ...
Jun 23, 2003 · Playwright and screenwriter George Axelrod, who penned "The Seven Year Itch" and adapted "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and "The Manchurian Candidate," has died. He was 81.
