The Manchurian Candidate
1962
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George Axelrod (June 9, 1922 – June 21, 2003) was an American screenwriter, producer, playwright and film director, best known for his play The Seven Year Itch (1952), which was adapted into a film of the same name starring Marilyn Monroe.
George Axelrod was born on 9 June 1922 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) and The Seven Year Itch (1955).
Jun 23, 2003 · George Axelrod, the playwright, director and screenwriter who penned the American stage comedy, The Seven Year Itch, which popularized that term and became a film hit, died June 21 in his...
George Axelrod was born on 9 June 1922 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) and The Seven Year Itch (1955). He was married to Joan Axelrod and Gloria Washburn.
Jun 23, 2003 · George Axelrod, a writer whose sexually frank farces and feverishly witty satires of the 1950's and 60's heralded the more hedonistic and cynical pop-culture sensibility of later...
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 interest in a monogamous relationship after seven years of marriage, has been used by psychologists.
Jun 22, 2003 · George Axelrod, the writer perhaps best known for his witty examinations of 1950s social mores, most notably in his play “The Seven Year Itch,” died Saturday morning at his home in Los Angeles.
Axelrod, George (b. 9 June 1922 in New York City; d. 21 June 2003 in Los Angeles, California), playwright, screenwriter, director, and producer who satirized the conventions of sexual conduct in the 1950s and the manner in which men and women were stifled by them.
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...
Axelrod wrote his first script for Hollywood, 1954’s “Phffft!,” which featured Jack Lemmon and Judy Holliday as a divorced couple. The Seven Year Itch was turned into a film in 1955, with Ewell reprising his role opposite Marilyn Monroe.
