The Graduate
1967
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Elaine Iva May (née Berlin; born April 21, 1932) is an American comedian, filmmaker, playwright, and actress. She first gained fame in the 1950s for her improvisational comedy routines with Mike Nichols before transitioning her career, regularly breaking the mold as a writer and director of several critically acclaimed films.
Elaine May (born under the name Elaine Iva Berlin) is an American actress, comedian, film director, playwright, and screenwriter from Philadelphia. Her professional career started in the 1950s and is still ongoing. She has twice been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Jun 4, 2024 · Could Elaine May Finally Be Getting Her Due? A new biography gives a compelling sense of a comic and cinematic genius, and also of the forces that derailed her Hollywood career. By Richard Brody
May 29, 2024 · Elaine May is one of the key architects of American comedy; an alumna of the influential Kennedy-era underground scene in Chicago that gave us the O.G. “Saturday Night Live” cast and...
3 days ago · Elaine May (born April 21, 1932, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.) is an American comedian, actor, writer, and director who is known for her sardonic wit, her caustic view of human nature, and her uncompromising fearlessness in all her work.
Jun 1, 2024 · Elaine May, Ahead of Her Time For the brilliant comedian, writer and director, Hollywood success was elusive. A new book offers perspective on the rocky career.
Jan 17, 2022 · Elaine May is known as one of the funniest and wittiest comics of all time, yet two of her directorial projects, “The Heartbreak Kid” (1972) and “Mikey and Nicky” (1976), are about as bleak a picture of human relationships as can be imagined. The tagline for “Mikey and Nicky” was actually, “Mikey and Nicky ... don’t expect to ...
Nov 4, 2019 · At 87, iconic comedian, actor, and director Elaine May is at last getting her due. But what took us so long?
Jan 21, 2019 · In 1968, when May signed her extraordinary contract with Paramount Pictures to write, direct and star in “A New Leaf,” she became the first female director with a Hollywood deal since Ida...
Jan 29, 2016 · Elaine May directs the American Masters tribute to Mike Nichols, with whom she became famous, in the late nineteen-fifties, as an improvisational comedy duo. PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF EVERETT....
