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Mary Rodgers (January 11, 1931 – June 26, 2014) was an American composer, screenwriter, and author. She wrote the novel Freaky Friday, which served as the basis of a 1976 film starring Jodie Foster, for which she wrote the screenplay, as well as three other versions.
Aug 11, 2022 · Rodgers, the daughter of theatrical legend Richard Rogers, was a songwriter, children's book author and philanthropist. Her memoir, Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers,...
Aug 7, 2022 · Mary Rodgers' memoir, Shy, written with Jesse Green, is a brutally honest and extremely entertaining story of the daughter of Richard Rodgers.
Aug 5, 2022 · But I’ve never read one more entertaining (and more revealing) than Mary Rodgers’s “Shy.” Her voice careens between intimate, sardonic, confessional, comic.
Jun 27, 2014 · Mary Rodgers, who wrote songs and children’s books and, by virtue of genetics and serendipity as well as talent, lived at the red-hot center of American musical theater, died on Thursday at her...
Aug 11, 2022 · Mary Rodgers was a songwriter, children's book author, philanthropist and — perhaps most famously — the daughter of theatrical legend Richard Rodgers. Though she died in 2014, her memoirs were published on Tuesday.
Aug 9, 2022 · Mary Rodger was the daughter of composer and producer Richard Rodgers and his wife, Dorothy. Both are long dead - Mary Rodgers, herself died in 2014 - but as she writes of them in her memoir, “Shy”, they come alive on the page. Rodgers’ subtitle is “The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers”.
Aug 26, 2022 · The memoirs of Mary Rodgers—writer, composer, Broadway royalty, and “a woman who tried everything.” “What am I, bologna?” Mary Rodgers (1931–2014) often said. She was referring to being stuck in the middle of a talent sandwich: the daughter of one composer and the mother of another. And not just any composers.
Aug 9, 2022 · Mary Rodgers (1931–2014) was an accomplished composer, author, and screenwriter. She was the author of the novel Freaky Friday and its 1976 screenplay adaptation, and of several other novels. Rodgers also wrote the music for Once Upon a Mattress, which was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Musical.
Jul 9, 2014 · Mary Rodgers Guettel, who died at the end of June, was not a household name like her father, the composer Richard Rodgers, but she had legions of fans—among them her lifelong friend Stephen ...
