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Jerome Allan Kass (April 21, 1937 – October 22, 2015) was an American screenwriter and author. He wrote Queen of the Stardust Ballroom in 1975 and Ballroom in 1978, which were nominated for an Emmy and Tony , respectively.
Oct 24, 2015 · Jerome Allan Kass was born in Chicago on April 21, 1937, and grew up in the Bronx in a family that might be described as colorful. His father, Sidney, was in the costume jewelry business and was ...
Oct 26, 2015 · Courtesy of O+M Co. Jerome Kass, who co-wrote the 1978 musical “Ballroom” based on his own teleplay, died of prostate cancer Oct. 22 at his Manhattan home. He was 78. Kass, who was married to ...
Oct 24, 2015 · Jerome Kass, who wrote the screenplay for the acclaimed 1975 telefilm Queen of the Stardust Ballroom, starring Maureen Stapleton and Charles Durning, died on Thursday, his family announced. He was 78.
Oct 30, 2015 · Jerome Kass, a writer whose screenplay “Queen of the Stardust Ballroom” became a movie starring Maureen Stapleton and Charles Durning and later earned him a Tony Award nomination, has died.
Oct 22, 2015 · Jerome Kass was a playwright and screenwriter best known for his work on the 1975 telefilm Queen of the Stardust Ballroom starring Maureen Stapleton and Charles Durning as a widow and postman, respectively, who fall in love late in life at the local dance hall. The movie was nominated for 11 Emmy Awards, and won two, for outstanding ...
Jerome Kass was born in Chicago in 1937. In 1940 he moved with his family to the Bronx, where he remained (except for two years away in graduate school in Massachusetts) for the next twenty-one years. When he was five years old he dreamed of a career as a singer.
