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    George Axelrod

    American screenwriter, producer

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  1. 4, including Jonathan Axelrod. 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. Axelrod was nominated for an Academy Award for his 1961 adaptation of ...

  2. George Axelrod (1922-2003) was a prolific and versatile writer, producer and director of stage and screen. He wrote classics such as The Manchurian Candidate, Breakfast at Tiffany's and The Seven Year Itch.

    • January 1, 1
    • New York City, New York, USA
    • January 1, 1
    • Los Angeles, California, USA
  3. 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 decades, died ...

  4. George Axelrod was a writer and producer of classic films such as The Manchurian Candidate, Breakfast at Tiffany's and The Seven Year Itch. He was born in New York City in 1922, married twice, and died in Los Angeles in 2003.

    • June 9, 1922
    • June 21, 2003
  5. 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.

    • George Axelrod
    • 1952
  6. George Axelrod was an American playwright, screenwriter, and film director. He was born in New York City on June 9, 1922. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he studied journalism and wrote for the school newspaper.

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  8. A consistently effective scenarist, Axelrod wrote often witty and always acute examinations of American social mores that produced several superior films of the 1950s and 60s. After serving in the Army Signal Corps during World War II, The New York-born Axelrod found work writing scripts for radio programs, including "The Shadow," "Midnight ...

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