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Martin Richards (born Morton Richard Klein; March 11, 1932 – November 26, 2012) was an American film producer. Biography. Richards was born to Sidney "Sid" Klein, a stockbroker, and his wife, Shirley, and was raised just off the Grand Concourse in the Bronx.
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- Mary Lea Johnson Richards
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Nov 28, 2012 · Nov. 27, 2012. Martin Richards, who began a show business career as a boy soprano and grew up to become a theater and movie producer who won an Oscar for the film adaptation of the musical...
Producer: Chicago. Martin Richards was born on 11 March 1932 in Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer and executive, known for Chicago (2002), The Boys from Brazil (1978) and The Shining (1980). He was married to Mary Lea Johnson. He died on 26 November 2012 in New York City, New York, USA.
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- Chicago actually was adapted from a 1926 play by Chicago crime reporter Maurine Dallas Watkins. She wrote one other Broadway play, Revelry, which was forced to close after civic groups condemned as unpatriotic its parody of the late President Warren G. Harding.
- When Richards produced Chicago on Broadway in 1975, the cast included stellar dancer Chita Rivera and Jerry Orbach, who would go on to greater fame as detective Lennie Briscoe on the long-running TV crime drama Law & Order.
- Richards wanted to make a movie version of Chicago from the get-go, and laboriously bought the movie rights from each of the show's numerous investors and coproducers, according to a 2003 New York Times article.
- When Richards finally got his studio deal in 1989, Madonna was present at the contract signing but ended up not appearing in the movie. Another then-star who was signed for the cast, Goldie Hawn, was later dropped for being too old, according to the Times article.
Obit. by Kathy Henderson • Nov 26, 2012. Martin Richards, a colorful Oscar and Tony-winning producer whose entertainment career spanned seven decades, died at his home in New York City on...
Nov 28, 2012 · 28 November 2012. Richards' shows won more than 40 Tony awards, Broadway's top honour. Martin Richards, the Tony award-winning producer behind Broadway hit Sweeney Todd, has died in New...
Oct 19, 2017 · Broadway producer Martin Richards died in New York on 26 Nov 2012 from cancer, at age 80, following a long illness. Richards Broadway productions of 'Sweeney Todd,' 'La Cage aux Folles' and 'The Will Rogers Follies' won Tony Awards for Best Musical, and his productions of 'On the Twentieth Century,' 'Grand Hotel' and 'Sweet Smell of Success ...
