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Sidney Joseph Perelman (February 1, 1904 – October 17, 1979) was an American humorist and screenwriter. He is best known for his humorous short pieces written over many years for The New Yorker. He also wrote for several other magazines, including Judge, as well as books, scripts, and screenplays.
Oct 18, 1979 · Perelman, the sister of Nathanael West, the novelist, died in 1970. Mr. Perelman is survived by a son, Adam, of New York, and a daughter, Abby Perelman, who lives near Woodstock, N.Y.
Oct 29, 2021 · Although Sidney Joseph Perelman (1904–1979) co-wrote two Marx Brothers movies and won an Academy Award for his screenwriting on the 1956 Hollywood extravaganza Around the World in Eighty Days, he remains best known for the short comic pieces—Perelman called them feuilletons—he contributed to The New Yorker during its golden age of humor ...
Jul 16, 1987 · West intended to settle there as well, but in December 1940, during one of his own screenwriting stays in Hollywood, he and his wife of eight months, Eileen McKenney, were killed in a car accident.
Laura West, whom he had married in 1929, collaborated with him on several screenplays. Perelman also regularly contributed essays for The New Yorker magazine under such absurd titles as “Beat Me, Post-Impressionist Daddy” and “Methinks He Doth Protein Too Much.”
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Oscar-winning screenwriter S. J. Perelman was one of the great American humorists, a master at short fiction involving word play and satire who influenced countless American humorists, including Woody Allen. He was born Simeon Joseph Perleman (though known as Sidney or Sydney to family and friends) on February 1, 1904 in Brooklyn, New York, and ...
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Jun 11, 2018 · While at Brown University Perelman had become good friends with a kindred eccentric, novelist Nathanael West. In 1929 Perelman married West's sister, Laura, with whom he later collaborated on a number of plays and screenplays; their marriage also produced two children, a son and a daughter.
